Alfredo Guevara, 87, Fidel Castro’s Film Czar

“At Fidel’s behest, Guevara founded the I.C.A.I.C., the Cuban Institute for the Arts and Cinematography, which sponsored Cuba’s state-funded, leftist ‘new’ cinema … Paradoxically, Guevara was also the preëminent homosexual in a Communist regime where … homosexuality was brutally suppressed.”