by the El Reportero’s wire services
Joaquín CorderoActor Joaquín Cordero died at his home in the Mexican capital, the secretary of the ANDA actors guild told Efe. He was 89.
Cordero was “one of the most beloved people in ANDA,” Amparo Garrido said.
While Garrido did not specify a cause of death, Mexican media suggested the actor fell into a depression after the death seven months ago of his wife, Alma.
Cordero was also recovering from an embolism.
Born Aug. 16, 1923, in the central city of Puebla, Cordero was among the last surviving figures from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, when he appeared alongside artists such as Mario Moreno “Cantinflas,” Pedro Infante and Carmen Montejo.
Cordero made more than 200 films over seven decades and was later a featured performer in telenovelas, including “Destilando amor,” “Fuego en la Sangre” and “La Madrastra.”
First ever Colombian film festival coming to NYC
Click here for a complete list of the films.: http://colfilmny.com/.
The first ever Colombian Film Festival is coming to New York City, celebrating all that is great about Colombian moviemaking. The festival, that will take place at the Tribeca Cinemas, will be held from March 20th until March 24, 2013.
The festival will screen 16 feature films and 8 shorts out of 45 entrees.
According to Chicana from Chicago “Colombia produces less than 25 features a year and that represents a substantial increase over the past 10 years, and 18 home grown features were released in Colombian theaters.”
This event is being held with the support of the Embassy of Colombia in Washington, D.C. and the Consulate of Colombia in NYC.
New York charges man for stealing Dali painting
A 29-year-old man has been indicted for stealing Spanish artist Salvador Dali’s “Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio” from a New York gallery last year, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.
Phivos Istavrioglou was arrested last Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport for taking the $150,000 painting from the Venus Over Manhattan gallery on the Upper East Side on June 19, 2012.
“It was almost surreal how this theft was committed – a thief is accused of putting a valuable Salvador Dali drawing into a shopping bag in the middle of the afternoon, in full view of surveillance cameras,” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. said in a statement.
The 1949 work was mailed back to the gallery anonymously from Greece after surveillance images of the suspect were released to the public, the DA’s office said.
“This brazen heist from a Manhattan gallery is the latest in a string of cases involving theft or fraud in the art world that my Office has prosecuted. Today’s indictment brings us one step closer to bringing an international art caper to a close,” Vance said.
Istavrioglou returned to New York at the invitation of a New York Police Department detective posing as an art galery manager.
“I commend detectives for matching a fingerprint in the Dali theft to a shoplifting last year in which Blueprint juice was taken from a Manhattan Whole Foods, resulting in Istavrioglou’s identification,” NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said.
Istavrioglou was indicted on one count of second degree grand larceny.
