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From: wjh@bonnie.UUCP (Bill Hery)
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Subject: Re: Ahhhhhhhhhh!
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Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 10:25:50 EDT
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> Yes there is a good movie of "Our Man In Havana", but it stars Alec Guiness!
>

And don't forget Ernie Kovacs as the Cuban policeman and friend/advesary of
Alec.

BTW, the book by is by Graham Greene, who has written a number of
books which are both 'good reads' as well as good literature.  
He used to spend much of his time as a journalist in various foreign countries,
and usually wrote a novel set in each locale where he spent a lot
of time--Havana, Mexico, Haitii (under Papa Doc), Vienna (right
after WWII--The Third Man), Spain, Africa, and even the US (he's English).

One of my favorites is one that was written in the late fifties and takes 
place in Viet Nam before the French left.  When I read it the early 70's,
I had to keep checking the copyright date to be sure it was that old--
everything he wrote about the French in the early fifties was just
the same as the Americans fifteen years later!  I don't recall the name
of the book off-hand; Ill post it when I check my library at home.

Bill Hery