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But many in the entertainment industry feel that times are changing. "Things are definitely happening and someone's going to say, 'Look, they opened up China,'" says Sundance Institute exec Geoffrey Gilmore, who's visited Cuba to hold seminars on indie films. Producer Beverly Camhe (Junior), who is shopping around a film set in contemporary Cuba, believes "we're at the threshold of a [new era] in geopolitics and Hollywood is responding to that." And the leftist Oliver Stone, who calls the embargo "nonsense from a bunch of right-wing stoneheads," has considered addressing the situation on film.

Stone, who went to Cuba in 1987 for the release of Salvador, says, "I met Castro and he expressed interest in my doing a movie on the Cuban situation years ago. But I can't do movies on everything. I was offered the Che Guevara [story] a few times, but what do you want? Leonardo DiCaprio playing Che?" Don't laugh: Leo's already scouted the location.

Originally posted Apr 24, 1998 Published in issue #428 Apr 24, 1998 Order article reprints

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