Ché has drained the hotness out of Benicio del Toro.

Beno is looking quite fug these days, and honestly, am not shocked. The man has been traveling all around the world selling his movie. I get exhausted looking at pictures of him lately.

It doesn't help that the man has exceptionally sexy eyebags, but my blog, the extra weight, the shabby suits and really, really exhausted look on his face just leaves me drained. I am sure it is not helping that he seems to believe he can continue his ... ahem ... notorious drinking habit and hard partying ways at his age.

Beno, dude, you're getting too old for that shit.

Anyhow ...

It must the rough to have to lug your shit around the globe for a project you've spent 7 years researching, 1 filming and shooting and another year selling. Selling a controversial movie, shot completely in Spanish,  the old school Hollywood way instead going the way of the digital guerrilla.

Especially after winning in Cannes that Palm D'Or ---which, by the way, had a jury facilitated by his friend Sean Penn and the mother of one of the victims of his tragic taste in women, Catherine Deneuve. And double especially after he was wrongly denied nominations for the Golden Globes, SAG Awards, Film Producers Guild and Oscars.

So it's no wonder he had it with the journalist from the Washington Times, that venerable basation of right-wing journalism owned by the Moonies and loved by the wingnutosphere.

Washington Times - 'Che' spurs debate, Del Toro walkout
"I'm getting uncomfortable," Benicio del Toro said after fielding a question about his new movie's portrayal of the Bolivian and Cuban revolutions. "I'm done. I'm done, I hope you write whatever you want. I don't give a damn."

I had to address this article since it's doing the rounds in the gossip blogs and now the right-wing blogs. It seems it's author is patting himself for ambushing Benicio with wanker Goldfard also celebrating.

Well ...

There are a lot of things that irritate me about this. Like the fact that it's framed to basically give a voice to every Ernesto Guevara and Fidel Castro detractor. Yet that's to expect from a Moonie funded right-wing newspaper with so-called objective journalists.

What really irritates me is the outright viciousness of the attacks against Del Toro and Soderbergh. Because they dared to portray what these wingnuts call a "murderer" and "thug" after these assholes were the same ones who put GEORGE W. BUSH in power these last 8 years. The same George W. Bush who :

1. Approved the use of torture for enemy combatants because he
2. Dismissed the use of the Geneva Conventions
3. Set up US Naval base in Guantanamo as a torture camp
4. Approved the wire-tapping of civilians, especially journalists, during his administration
5. Lied about Saddam Hussein's involvement in the September 11 attacks
6. Knew about the imminent threat prior to 9/11 and may have ordered a "wait and see" period that went too long and had dire consequences
7. Has killed more innocent people and displaced millions of in Iraq in 7 years than Saddam Hussein in his 30 years in power
8. Stole the fucking elections in 2000!

Should I go on?

I know Benicio del Toro is tired and that he insists on the merits of "Ché" from a purely artistic and historical perspective. Fair .... yet .... yet ... AUGH!

Let me go on record as saying that Benicio del Toro needs to grow a pair and go all the way defending his movie. He needs to stick to his gun and remind these right-wing assholes that no US President has left office without blood on their hands. Not one of them is innocent of the US policies that have killed millions around the world in the name of "democracy". Not one of them should be denied a closer look through a movie or a play.

Maybe Benicio needs to lay off the drink a bit and go sleep for 10-20 hours. Maybe he is playing it safe because, after all, he has a whole career of non-political movies ahead of him. Maybe it is his nature to walk away from a discussion before punching an asshole in the face.

Me?

I would have schooled the motherfucker with the previous litany of Bushist Imperialism ... and most probably punched him in the face.

Either way, there's no backing down now Del Toro. Fucking get on with it and remind people that each US President has been as guilty of murder and torture as Ernesto Guevara ... they just weren't as good-looking as him and you.