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Article: Don't cry for Menem.(Argentine President Carlos Menem morally opposes film of musical 'Evita' and plans historical film on Eva Peron, but Argentina will support the Hollywood project for needed cash)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
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- September 25, 1995
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WANT TO IRRITATE AN ARGENTINE? Hum the music from "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina." And if that Argentine happens to be President Carlos Menem, you can really rile him: just ask about "Evita," the hit musical that gave the world that popular tune. "A total and absolute disgrace," Menem calls the opera that portrays national icon Maria Eva Duarte de Peron as a tramp who used sex to win power. Hollywood is planning a lavish, big-budget movie of the show that infuriated her diehard fans. What's a politician to do? Dabble in the movie business himself--with a competing movie. "This," Menem crowed last week, "will be a film about the real life of Evita, not one of those fakes that ...
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