Power corrupting

[MASCARO at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU]

Don mentions

>The 1995 film STRAWBERRY AND CHOCOLATE, by Cuba's leading director, Tomas
>Guttierez Alea, about a friendship between a young revolutionary and an
>apolitcal gay man.  (I still don't know how this got made, let alone nominated
>for a Best Foreign Film Oscar.)

Sounds exactly like the basic set up in Puig's KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN.  Great 
novel, BTW. Never saw the Cuban film--are there any other similarities?  Think it was a 
deliberate echo?

john m