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21 August 2006 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor-turned-director Andy Garcia has been awarded two Imagen Awards at a Los Angeles ceremony to honor the best in Hispanic cinema and television. The star won Best Director and Best Film for The Lost City, his directorial debut about a wealthy Cuban family during Fidel Castro's rise to power. Other awards included Antonio Banderas' Best Actor honor for ballroom movie Take The Lead, and America Ferrera as Best Actress for her part in movie The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants. Elsewhere, Jimmy Smits' role as a Latino presidential hopeful helped The West Wing scoop the Best Primetime TV series. The ceremony took place on Friday.

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25 April 2006 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Movie star Andy Garcia's controversial new movie The Lost City has been banned in parts of South America because it depicts romantic revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in a terrible light. The Ocean's Twelve star spent years trying to get the project made, only for film festival bosses and cinema chains to shun the movie because it tells the truth about the Marxist guerilla leader and the Cubans slayed as he fought to revolutionize the country and hand Fidel Castro leadership. Garcia, who wrote, directed and stars in the film, says, "There have been festivals that wouldn't show it. That will continue to happen from people who don't want to see the image of Che be tarnished and from people who support the Castro regime. He still has a lot of supporters out there. Some people think Castro is a savior, that he looks out for the kids and the poor. It's a bunch of hogwash. In the 45 years since Castro came to power, Cuba has been in the top three countries for human rights abuses for 43 of those years. People turn a blind eye to his atrocities."

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