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...hearts we know it is Casablanca. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Indeed, for the first hour or so it is a very good thing. For director Sydney Pollack is a living oxymoron, a meticulous romantic. In reconstructing, very persuasively, the life of the Cuban capital as Fidel Castro's revolutionaries prepared to take it in the waning days of 1958, he also recaptures something of the doomy delirium of the film that obviously inspired him. And some of its smartness too: the dialogue -- especially that of its resident cynic, its Captain Renault (Alan Arkin playing a casino owner...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua-Eoan, William R. Doerner, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, Ariadna Victoria Rainert, Christopher Redman, Michael S. Serrill, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...
...FIDEL CASTRO...
Czechoslovakia is preparing to distance itself from Cuba by no longer allowing his diplomats to operate from its Washington embassy. (The U.S., of course, has no relations with Havana.) Soviet officials are planning to meet in Moscow next month with Cuban exiles. Does Castro feel a chill...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua-Eoan, William R. Doerner, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, Ariadna Victoria Rainert, Christopher Redman, Michael S. Serrill, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...