James Franco is stirring up controversy yet again, with news that he has been cast to play former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in a new film, "Alina of Cuba," according to Deadline. This will be one of ...

James Franco hasn’t appeared in a film since 2019, but the actor, who was accused of sexually inappropriate behavior by multiple women (leading to a $2.2 million settlement), is planning his comeback… ...

James Franco is going from Tommy Wiseau to Fidel Castro. The Disaster Artist actor has been cast to play the Cuban leader in director Miguel Bardem's Alina of Cuba, EW has confirmed. He joins the ...

Past praise for the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has some Miami-area Democrats worried about a lawmaker said to be in the running to join the Joe Biden ticket. U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, a Los Angeles ...

MIAMI — Juanita Castro, the sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raúl Castro who worked with the CIA against their communist government, has died in Miami at 90. Florida had been her home since shortly ...

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In Hollywood, truth is stranger than fiction. On Thursday, Deadline announced that James Franco, he of “Pineapple Express” and “This Is the End,” had been cast as Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in “Alina ...

In April of 1959, just a few months after they’d taken control of Cuba, Fidel Castro and his younger brother Raul met at a Houston hotel for a showdown. Fidel was touring the U.S. to win support for ...

In September 2024, a number of users on X referenced the theory that Fidel Castro was the father of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in response to a prompt asking users about the "goofiest ...

Cubans say they're grateful for the land reforms and modern amenities. In the rugged Sierra Maestra mountains near where Fidel Castro made his hideout as he led a guerrilla uprising in the late 1950s, ...

Castro then became an activist lawyer with ambitions of a seat in Cuba’s Congress until Batista organized a coup d’etat on March 10, 1952, short-circuiting scheduled elections. Fidel and Raul Castro ...

We were sitting on a wrought-iron bench downtown, Manolo and I, chatting about the December weather, nodding to pedestrians strolling by. I was in Cuba to do some research on José Martí, the national ...