Castro, Costner Preview Movie on Cuban Missile Crisis

April 12, 2001 - 0:0
HAVANA Cuban Leader Fidel Castro and Hollywood's Kevin Costner screened the actor-producer's new movie on the Cuban missile crisis, Cuban film industry sources reported Tuesday. The Cuban public premier of "**** Thirteen Days ****" were to be Tuesday night in a Havana theater. Costner flew to Cuba Monday from the United States. Costner's seven-hour meeting Monday night with Castro ended at 2 a.m. Tuesday local time. Other top Cuban officials and the movie's co-producers Armyan Bernstein and Peter Almond were also present for the previewing with Castro at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana. "**** Thirteen Days ****" portrays the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis, with Costner starring as President John F. Kennedy advisor Kenneth O'Donnell. Among the three protagonists depicted in the movie - along with Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev - Castro is the only one still living. His reaction to "**** 13 Days ****" was not known. (DPA)