HAVANA - Actor Benicio del Toro says protesters at the Miami screening of "Che" should have watched the film first.
Del Toro plays Argentine-born Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a hero of the Cuban revolution and global icon. He says the role was difficult and took a lot of time.
Cuban exiles protested the movie in Miami last week. Many opposed Guevara for executions of officials from Fulgencio Batista's government, which was toppled in 1959.
But del Toro says "a lot of the people protesting the movie hadn't seen it."
He spoke Saturday as about 1,500 people attended the screening of the movie by director Steven Soderbergh at a film festival in Havana.
The Puerto Rican actor won the Cannes Film Festival's best-actor prize for his performance.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Just weeks after the announcement of former "Full House" star Jodie Sweetin's divorce from husband Cody Herpin, court papers obtained by Access Hollywood have unveiled what seems to be a turbulent union.
"Our marriage has been rocky," Jodie stated in divorce documents filed in Orange County Superior Court on November 19. According to the documents, the couple separated on November 18. They were married over a year earlier, on July 14, 2007.
But it wasn't just the relationship that had problems, she asserted.
"Our house is in foreclosure, our water has been shut off twice... Currently, all of our other utilities are overdue," she alleged in the papers.
Jodie alleged that Cody, who she stated was a driver and transportation coordinator when they met, stopped working after they were married except for the month of October 2007, and "kept finding one excuse after another for his failure to even attempt to find employment."
"He had to sell his car to pay bills and is now without transportation, unless it is a rental," she continued.
The couple has a child, 7-month-old daughter Zoie Laurel Mae, who Jodie has asked for joint legal and physical custody of, with primary custody going to her.
"I believe that he is going to try to prevent me from seeing our daughter," she wrote, citing an alleged incident that found Cody telling her he would call the police if she left their home with Zoie.
She asked for a court order to pick up certain items from the couple's home
"[Cody] will become very emotional and possibly erratic" if she returned to the residence, the papers alleged.
However, in an interview with People on Friday, Cody painted a different picture
"I still have no idea what this is about. None of this makes sense," he told the mag.
According to him, the actress has returned to their residence four times since the split and won't return his e-mails - and, he alleged, his unemployment was due to her busy schedule.
"I was the stay-at-home dad, my job was taking care of Zoie," he said.
His lawyer, Robert Benavente, told People that Cody has been cooperative with his estranged wife - and he alleged that she hasn't been entirely truthful.
"Some of [her other claims] are false," Benavente said. "We will address those in court documents."
A court date is set for the morning of February 9, 2009.
This Oct. 17, 1987 file photo shows actress Beverly Garland. Garland, the actress who starred in 1950s cult hits like 'Swamp Women' and 'Not of This Earth' and who went on to play Fred MacMurray's TV wife on 'My Three Sons,' died Friday Dec. 5, 2008. She was 82. (AP Photo/PA)Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Beverly Garland, the B-movie actress who starred in 1950s cult hits like "Swamp Women" and "Not of This Earth" and who went on to play Fred MacMurray's TV wife on "My Three Sons," has died. She was 82.
Garland died Friday at her Hollywood Hills home after a lengthy illness, her son-in-law Packy Smith told the Los Angeles Times.
Garland made her film debut in the 1950 noir classic "D.O.A.," launching a 50-year career that included 40 movies and dozens of television shows.
She gained cult status for playing gutsy women in low-budget exploitation films such as "The Alligator People" and a number of Roger Corman movies including "Gunslinger," "It Conquered the World" and "Naked Paradise."
"I never considered myself very much of a passive kind of actress," she said in a 1985 interview with Fangoria magazine. "I was never very comfortable in love scenes, never comfortable playing a sweet, lovable lady."
Garland showed her comedic chops as Bing Crosby's wife in the short-lived sitcom "The Bing Crosby Show" in the mid-'60s.
She went on to be cast in "My Three Sons" as the second wife of MacMurray's widower Steve Douglas during the last three seasons of the popular series that aired from 1960 to 1972.
Her television credits also include "Remington Steele," "Scarecrow and Mrs. King," "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and "7th Heaven."
Garland was born Beverly Fessenden in Santa Cruz, Calif., in 1926, and grew up in Glendale. She became Beverly Garland when she married actor Richard Garland. They were divorced in 1953 after less than four years of marriage.
In 1960, she married real estate developer Fillmore Crank, and the couple built a mission-style hotel in North Hollywood, now called Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn. Garland, whose husband died in 1999, remained involved in running the North Hollywood hotel.
She was the honorary mayor of North Hollywood and served on the boards of the California Tourism Corp. and the Greater Los Angeles Visitors and Convention Bureau.
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