Fact: Benicio Del Toro has been honoured for his big screen achievements in Havana, Cuba. The star - who played Cuban activist Che Guevara in two films last year (08) - was handed the Tomas Gutierrez Alea prize at a ceremony attended by actors Robert Duvall, James Caan and Bill Murray.
Fact: Revolutionary Che Guevara's granddaughter, LYDIA GUEVARA, has stripped to promote vegetarianism. Wearing a bandoleer of carrots, the pretty Latina is the poster girl for PETA's new animal rights new campaign, 'Join the Vegetarian Revolution'.
Quote: "Benicio Del Toro sends his apologies. He'd like to be here but he's making two or three films about Che Guevara in Cuba or Mexico or somewhere like that." Director Sam Mendes jokes about BENICIO DEL TORO absence at the London premiere of his new film THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE.
Fact: An intimate biography of iconic revolutionary Che Guevara's homelife has been written by his widow.