The New York Times today features the Barretto family and Fábio Barreto's new biopic of the former president. I was surprised and delighted by an anecdote from the family patriarch:
He has a boyhood memory of watching Orson Welles filming the never-released “Four Men on a Raft” at a beach there and being “fascinated by all that equipment."
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About Me
- E. M. Crawford
- A fairly extreme Brazil nut, I split his time between California, Massachusetts, and my favorite places in Brazil: little islands along the Bahian coast, Carioca live music dives, and the next great place I discover.