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...American capitalists wanted him too. In 1930, when he did his enormous fresco cycle of Mexican history in the Palacio de Cortes at Cuernavaca, a work that made no bones about his Communist sympathies, his $12,000 fee was paid by Dwight W. Morrow, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. In 1931 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller bought Rivera's sketchbook of the 1928 May Day parade in Moscow...
Approaching the screen adaptation of Malcolm Lowry's complex novel, one anticipated a worst-case scenario in every sense of the word. The last gloomily adventurous 24 hours of the onetime British consul in Cuernavaca, which begin on the Mexican Day of the Dead (and on the eve of World War II as well), are an invitation to the portentous. But for once the simplifying narrative imperatives of the screen and the imperatives of the talent assembled for the effort) have served a difficult book well. In recounting what is either an ascent to Calvary or a descent into...
...have played the voice of God in the 1966 movie The Bible, but Director John Huston, 77, cannot move mountains. So last month Huston moved to Cuernavaca, Mexico, in the shadow of Popocatepetl, site of his new epic, Under the Volcano. The film, which stars Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset and Anthony Andrews, takes place during a single day in 1938, mostly inside the head of its drunken protagonist. "The consul is the most complicated character I've ever had in a film," says Huston. "He's like a Churchill gone bad, a great man with a flaw." Bisset...
...streets, men in tattered clothing water shrubs, scrub public monuments, whitewash scaly tree trunks or sweep nearly empty stretches of roadway gutters. Business has slowed drastically even in places that cater to the rich. At Las Mañanitas in Cuernavaca, a favorite weekend retreat for the capital's elite, stately white peacocks pick their way among sparsely occupied cane lawn chairs. A few months ago, Mexico's well-to-do had to wait an hour to get a table. Says Claudio Weiz, an Argentine businessman in Mexico City: "Mexicans are in a trauma. They have never suffered...
...well told and undoubtedly well edited, about unspeakable betrayal and cold-blooded revenge. As its title suggests, there is a premium on getting, spending and preserving wealth and status. Characters talk in nine and even ten figures. A New York City mistress is taken to Paris for lunch and Cuernavaca for a sunbath. Markets are rigged by big shots who are never out of contact with their intercontinental flunkies; one even has a telephone in his refrigerator in case he gets a call while "taking" a snack...