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Director Steven Soderbergh’s fight to get Che released in the U.S. is looking tougher than the title character’s fight against the Cuban dictatorship. But shouldn’t stop you from checking out this YouTube clip of Benicio Del Toro as Che Guevara.

The 2008 Cannes Film Festival is over and the awards have been announced. Cue the crickets. Sorry, that was wrong, cue le crickets.

It’s not unheard of for world news and politics to cross over into the entertainment industry. But one thing is for certain… when it happens, you can find some celebrity in the middle of the whole thing making an absolute ass out of himself or herself.

While the Cannes Film Festival officially ended yesterday, we should see a fair amount of coverage stretch on into the latter parts of this week, as there is still a ton of buzz and hot assets floating around.

As I mentioned before, we are not in the South of France this year to cover the Cannes Film Festival. But as I also mentioned before, that doesn’t mean we can’t give it a little coverage.

You are probably wondering why you haven’t seen a “Live Drunkenness from Cannes” post of some kind. It’s simple — we aren’t there.

Previously we had thought that getting into Cannes was an infinitely difficult task, but apparently it is not — at least, it’s not if you know wicked kung fu.

This is harsh cinema, one that grabs you by the nuts and forces you to see what you choose to neglect.