Pepe Escobar (born 1954) is a journalist based in São Paulo, Brazil. He writes a column entitled The Roving Eye for ''Asia Times Online'' and is analyst and correspondent for ''The Real News Network''. His article, 'Get Osama! Now! Or else...', was published by ''Asia Times Online'' two weeks before the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001; in it, he claimed that Al Qaeda was in tatters.

Bibliography

Escobar, P. 2007, ''Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War'', Nimble Books.

Escobar, P. 2007, ''Red Zone Blues: A Snapshot of Baghdad During the Surge'', Nimble Books.

Escobar, P. 2009, ''Obama Does Globalistan'', Nimble Books.

References

External links

Manning, D. & Cotton, M. 2007, 'Embedded with Power: An interview with Pepe Escobar' (part 1, part 2), ''Mediabite'', no date.

The Real News Network

The Roving Eye (''Asia Times Online'')

Stories by Pepe Escobar

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:''For other people named Anthony Quinn see Anthony Quinn (disambiguation)''.

Name	Anthony Quinn
Birth name	Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca
Birth date	April 21, 1915
Birth place	Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
Death date	June 03, 2001
Death place	Boston, Massachusetts,United States
residence	Butte, Montana
Occupation	Actor, painter, writer, film director
Years active	1936–2001
Spouse	Katherine DeMille (1937–65; 5 children)Jolanda Addolori (1966–97; 3 Children)Kathy Benvin (1997–2001; 2 children)
Partner	Friedel Dunbar(2 children) }}

Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 - June 3, 2001), more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including ''Zorba the Greek'', ''Lawrence of Arabia'', ''The Guns of Navarone'', ''The Message'', ''Guns for San Sebastian'', ''Lion of the Desert'' and Federico Fellini's ''La Strada''. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice; for ''Viva Zapata!'' in 1952 and ''Lust for Life'' in 1956.

Early life

Quinn was born Antonio Reyes in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution. His mother, Manuela "Nellie" Oaxaca, was of Aztec Indian ancestry. His father, Francisco Quinn, was also born in Mexico, to an Irish immigrant father from County Cork and a Mexican mother. Frank Quinn rode with Pancho Villa, then later moved to Los Angeles and became an assistant cameraman at a movie studio. In Quinn's autobiography ''The Original Sin: A Self-Portrait by Anthony Quinn'' he denied being the son of an "Irish adventurer" and attributed that tale to Hollywood publicists.

When he was six years old, Quinn attended a Catholic church (even thinking he wanted to become a priest). At age eleven, however, he joined the Pentecostals in the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (the Pentecostal followers of Aimee Semple McPherson).

Quinn grew up first in El Paso, Texas, and later the Boyle Heights and the Echo Park areas of Los Angeles, California. He attended Hammel Street Elementary School, Belvedere Junior High School, Polytechnic High School and finally Belmont High School with future baseball player and ''General Hospital'' star, John Beradino, but left before graduating. Tucson High School in Arizona, many years later, awarded him an honorary high school diploma.

As a young man Quinn boxed professionally to earn money, then studied art and architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright, both at Wright's Arizona residence and his Wisconsin studio, Taliesin. The two very different men became friends. When Quinn mentioned he was drawn to acting, Wright encouraged him. Quinn said he had been offered $800 a week by a film studio and didn't know what to do. Wright replied, "Take it, you'll never make that much with me."

In a rerun of an interview done with Anthony Quinn in 1999 for Turner Classic Movies' "Private Screenings with Robert Osborne" (repeated 21 April 2009), Mr. Quinn said that the contract was for $300 a week.

Career

After a short time performing on the stage, Quinn launched his film career performing character roles in the 1936 films ''Parole'' (his debut) and ''The Milky Way''. He played "ethnic" villains in Paramount films such as ''Dangerous to Know'' (1938) and ''Road to Morocco'', and played a more sympathetic Crazy Horse in ''They Died with Their Boots On'' with Errol Flynn. By 1947, he had appeared in over 50 films and had played Indians, Mafia dons, Hawaiian chiefs, Filipino freedom-fighters, Chinese guerrillas, and Arab sheiks, but was still not a major star. He returned to the theater, playing Stanley Kowalski in ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' on Broadway. In 1947, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

He came back to Hollywood in the early 1950s, specializing in tough roles. He was cast in a series of B-adventures such as ''Mask of the Avenger'' (1951). His big break came from playing opposite Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan's ''Viva Zapata!'' (1952). Quinn wanted to play the lead role of Zapata but Brando coming off his recent success in the film ''Streetcar Named Desire'' was Kazan's first choice. However his supporting role as Zapata's brother won Quinn an Oscar while Brando lost the Oscar for Best Actor to Gary Cooper in ''High Noon''. He was the first Mexican-American to win any Academy Award. He appeared in several Italian films starting in 1953, turning in one of his best performances as a dim-witted, thuggish and volatile strongman in Federico Fellini's ''La strada'' (1954) opposite Giulietta Masina. Quinn won his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor by portraying the painter Paul Gauguin in Vincente Minnelli's van Gogh biopic, ''Lust for Life'' (1956). The award was remarkable as he was on screen for only 8 minutes. The following year, he received an Oscar nomination for his part in George Cukor's ''Wild Is the Wind''. In ''The River's Edge'' (1957), he played the husband of the former girlfriend (played by Debra Paget) of a killer (Ray Milland), who turns up with a stolen fortune and forces Quinn and Paget at gunpoint to guide him safely to Mexico. Quinn starred in ''The Savage Innocents'' 1959 (film) as Inuk, an Eskimo who finds himself caught between two clashing cultures.

As the decade ended, Quinn allowed his age to show and began his transformation into a major character actor. His physique filled out, his hair grayed, and his once smooth, swarthy face weathered and became more rugged. He played a Greek resistance fighter in ''The Guns of Navarone'' (1961), an ideal ex-boxer in ''Requiem for a Heavyweight'', and a natural for the role of Auda abu Tayi in ''Lawrence of Arabia'' (both 1962). That year he also played the title role in ''Barabbas'', based on a novel by Pär Lagerkvist. The success of ''Zorba the Greek'' in 1964 was the high water mark of his career and resulted in another Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Other films include ''The 25th Hour'' (1967), with Virna Lisi; ''The Magus'' (1968), with Michael Caine and Candice Bergen, and based on the novel by John Fowles; La Bataille de San Sebastian (''Guns for San Sebastian'') with Charles Bronson; and ''The Shoes of the Fisherman'', where he played a Ukrainian pope. In 1969, he starred in ''The Secret of Santa Vittoria'' with Anna Magnani.

He appeared on Broadway to great acclaim in ''Becket'', as King Henry II to Laurence Olivier's Thomas Becket in 1960. An erroneous story arose in later years that during the run, Quinn and Olivier switched roles and Quinn played Becket to Olivier's King. In fact, Quinn left the production for a film, never having played Becket, and director Peter Glenville suggested a road tour with Olivier as Henry. Olivier happily agreed and Arthur Kennedy took on the role of Becket for the tour and brief return to Broadway.

In 1971, after the success of a TV movie named ''The City'', where Quinn played Mayor Thomas Jefferson Alcala, he starred in the single-season ABC television series entitled ''The Man and the City''. Though the program was filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the name of the city is not disclosed on the program. His subsequent television appearances were sporadic, among them ''Jesus of Nazareth''.

In 1977, he starred in the movie ''Mohammad, Messenger of God'' (also known as ''The Message''), about the origin of Islam, as Hamzah, a highly revered warrior instrumental in the early stages of Islam. In 1980, he starred in the ''Lion of the Desert'', together with Irene Papas, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, and John Gielgud. Quinn played the real-life Bedouin leader Omar Mukhtar who fought Benito Mussolini's Italian troops in the deserts of Libya. The film, produced and directed by Moustapha Akkad, is now critically acclaimed, but performed poorly at the box office because of negative publicity in the West at the time of its release, stemming from its having been partially funded by Libya. In 1983, he reprised his most famous role, playing Zorba the Greek for 362 performances in a successful revival of the Kander and Ebb musical ''Zorba''. Quinn performed in this musical both on Broadway in New York City and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C,

Quinn's film career slowed during the 1990s, but he nonetheless continued to work steadily, appearing in ''Revenge'' (1990), ''Jungle Fever'' (1991), ''Last Action Hero'' (1993), ''A Walk in the Clouds'' (1995) and ''Seven Servants'' (1996). In 1994, he played Zeus in the five TV movies that led to the syndicated series ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys''. (However, he did not continue in the actual series, and the role was eventually filled by several other actors).

Quinn made an appearance at the John Gotti trial, according to John H. Davis, author of ''Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family''. He told reporters he wanted to play Paul Castellano, the boss of the Gambino family after Carlo Gambino. Gotti had Castellano murdered, becoming the boss of the Gambino family thereafter. Gotti was on trial concerning a variety of felony charges when Quinn visited the court room. Although he tried to shake hands with Gotti, federal marshals prevented him from doing so, Davis says. The actor interpreted the testimony of Sammy ("The Bull") Gravano, Gotti's underboss, against Gotti as "a friend who betrays a friend." He hadn't come to "judge" Gotti, Quinn insisted, but because he wanted to portray Castellano, who inspired the actor because he had had a "thirty-year-old" mistress, which Quinn believed was "a beautiful thing." He would later portray Gambino family underboss Aniello Dellacroce in the 1996 HBO film ''Gotti''. Armand Assante portrayed John Gotti and Richard C. Sarafian portrayed Paul Castellano. Quinn was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as Dellacroce.

Painting and writing

Art critic Donald Kuspit, explains, "examining Quinn's many expressions of creativity together—his art and acting—we can see that he was a creative genius..."

Early in life Quinn had interest in painting and drawing. Throughout his teenage years he won various art competitions in California and focused his studies at Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles on drafting. Later, Quinn studied briefly under Frank Lloyd Wright through the Taliesin Fellowship—an opportunity created by winning first prize in an architectural design contest. Through Wright's recommendation, Quinn took acting lessons as a form of post-operative speech therapy, which led to an acting career that spanned over six decades.

Apart from art classes taken in Chicago during the 1950s, Quinn never attended art school; nonetheless, taking advantage of books, museums, and amassing a sizable collection, he managed to give himself an effective education in the language of modern art. Although Quinn remained mostly self-taught, intuitively seeking out and exploring new ideas, there is observable history in his work because he had assiduously studied the modernist masterpieces on view in the galleries of New York, Mexico City, Paris, and London. When filming on location around the world, Quinn was exposed to regional contemporary art styles exhibited at local galleries and studied art history in each area.

In an endless search for inspiration, he was influenced by his Mexican ancestry, decades of residency in Europe, and lengthy stays in Africa and the Middle East while filming in the 1970s and 1980s.

By the early 1980s, his work had caught the eyes of various gallery owners and was exhibited internationally, in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Mexico City. His work is now represented in both public and private collections throughout the world.

He wrote two memoirs, ''The Original Sin'' (1972) and ''One Man Tango'' (1997), a number of scripts, and a series of unpublished stories currently in the collection of his archive.

Personal life

Quinn's personal life was as volatile and passionate as the characters he played in films. His first wife was the adopted daughter of Cecil B. DeMille, the actress Katherine DeMille, whom he married in 1937. The couple had five children: Christopher (born 1939), Christina (born December 1, 1941), Catalina (born November 21, 1942), Duncan (born August 4, 1945), and Valentina (born December 26, 1952). Their first child, Christopher, aged 2, drowned in the swimming pool of next-door neighbor W.C. Fields. Quinn and DeMille were divorced in 1965, following his affair with costume designer Jolanda Addolori. In 1966, he married Italian film costume designer Jolanda Addolori. They had three children: Francesco (March 22, 1963 – August 5, 2011), Danny (born April 16, 1964), and Lorenzo (born May 7, 1966). The union ended in 1997, after Quinn fathered children with his secretary, Katherine Benvin. He then married Benvin, with whom he had two children, Antonia (born July 23, 1993) and Ryan Nicholas (born July 5, 1996). Quinn and Benvin remained together until his death.

Quinn also fathered two other children with Friedel Dunbar: Sean Quinn (born February 7, 1973), a New Jersey real estate agent, and Alexander Anthony Quinn (born December 30, 1976), an event producer in Los Angeles, CA.

Death

Quinn spent his last years in Bristol, Rhode Island. He died aged 86 in Boston, Massachusetts from pneumonia and respiratory failure while suffering from throat cancer shortly after completing his role in his last film, ''Avenging Angelo'' (2002).

His funeral was held in the First Baptist Church in America in the College Hill section of Providence, Rhode Island; late in life, he had joined the Foursquare evangelical Christian community. He is buried in a family plot in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Tributes

There is a statue of Anthony Quinn (originally from Chihuahua) doing his famous "Zorba the Greek" dance In Chihuahua Mexico

On January 5, 1982, the Belvedere County Public Library in East Los Angeles was renamed in honor of Anthony Quinn. The present library sits on the site of his family's former home.

There is an Anthony Quinn Bay and Beach in Rhodes, Dodecanese, Greece, just 2.7 miles (4.3 km) south of the village of Faliraki (aka Falirakion or Falirákion). The land was bought by Quinn during the filming of ''The Guns of Navarone'' in Rhodes; however, it was reclaimed by the Greek government in 1984 due to a change in property law.

The National Council of La Raza gives the Anthony Quinn Award for excellence in motion pictures as an ALMA Award.

Filmography

''Night Waitress'' (1936)

''The Milky Way'' (1936)

''Parole'' (1936)

''Sworn Enemy'' (1936)

''The Plainsman'' (1936)

''Swing High, Swing Low'' (1937)

''Waikiki Wedding'' (1937)

''Under Strange Flags'' (1937)

''The Last Train from Madrid'' (1937)

''Partners in Crime'' (1937)

''Daughter of Shanghai'' (1937)

''The Buccaneer'' (1938)

''Dangerous to Know'' (1938)

''Tip-Off Girls'' (1938)

''Hunted Men'' (1938)

''Bulldog Drummond in Africa'' (1938)

''King of Alcatraz'' (1938)

''King of Chinatown'' (1939)

''Union Pacific'' (1939)

''Island of Lost Men'' (1939)

''Television Spy'' (1939)

''Emergency Squad'' (1940)

''Parole Fixer'' (1940)

''Road to Singapore'' (1940)

''The Ghost Breakers'' (1940)

''City for Conquest'' (1940)

''The Texas Rangers Ride Again'' (1940)

''Knockout'' (1941)

''Thieves Fall Out'' (1941)

''Blood and Sand'' (1941)

''Bullets for O'Hara'' (1941)

''They Died with Their Boots On'' (1941)

''The Perfect Snob'' (1941)

''Larceny, Inc.'' (1942)

''Road to Morocco'' (1942)

''The Black Swan'' (1942)

''The Ox-Bow Incident'' (1943)

''Guadalcanal Diary'' (1943)

''Buffalo Bill'' (1944)

''Ladies of Washington'' (1944)

''Roger Touhy, Gangster'' (1944)

''Irish Eyes Are Smiling'' (1944)

''China Sky'' (1945)

''Where Do We Go from Here?'' (1945)

''Back to Bataan'' (1945)

''California'' (1946)

''Sinbad the Sailor'' (1947)

''The Imperfect Lady'' (1947)

''Black Gold'' (1947)

''Tycoon'' (1947)

''The Brave Bulls'' (1951)

''Mask of the Avenger'' (1951)

''Viva Zapata!'' (1952)

''The Brigand'' (1952)

''The World in His Arms'' (1952)

''Against All Flags'' (1952)

''Funniest Show on Earth'' (1953)

''Cavalleria rusticana'' (1953)

''City Beneath the Sea'' (1953)

''Seminole'' (1953)

''Ride, Vaquero!'' (1953)

''East of Sumatra'' (1953)

''Blowing Wild'' (1953)

''Angels of Darkness'' (1954)

''The Long Wait'' (1954)

''La strada'' (1954)

''Ulysses'' (1954)

''Attila'' (1954)

''The Magnificent Matador'' (1955)

''The Naked Street'' (1955)

''Seven Cities Of Gold'' (1955)

''Lust for Life'' (1956)

''Man from Del Rio'' (1956)

''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1956)

''The Wild Party'' (1956)

''The River's Edge'' (1957)

''The Ride Back'' (1957)

''Wild Is the Wind'' (1957)

''Hot Spell'' (1958)

''The Black Orchid'' (1958)

''Warlock'' (1959)

''Last Train from Gun Hill'' (1959)

''Heller in Pink Tights'' (1960)

''The Savage Innocents'' (1960)

''Portrait in Black'' (1960)

''The Guns of Navarone'' (1961)

''Barabbas'' (1961)

''Requiem for a Heavyweight'' (1962)

''Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962)

''The Visit'' (1964)

''Behold a Pale Horse'' (1964)

''Zorba the Greek'' (1964)

''A High Wind in Jamaica'' (1965)

''Marco the Magnificent'' (1965)

''Lost Command'' (1966)

''The Rover'' (1967)

''The Happening" (1967)

''The 25th Hour'' (1967)

''Guns for San Sebastian'' (1967)

''The Shoes of the Fisherman'' (1968)

''The Magus'' (1968)

''The Secret of Santa Vittoria'' (1969)

''A Dream of Kings'' (1969)

''A Walk in the Spring Rain'' (1970)

''R. P. M.'' (1970)

''Flap'' (1970)

''Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears'' (1972)

''Arruza'' (1972) (documentary) (narrator)

''Across 110th Street'' (1972)

''The Don Is Dead'' (1973)

''The Marseille Contract'' (1974)

''Target of an Assassin'' (1976)

''The Con Artists'' (1976)

''The Inheritance'' (1976)

''Bluff'' (1976)

''The Message'' (1976)

''Jesus of Nazareth'' (1977 television)

''The Greek Tycoon'' (1978)

''Caravans'' (1978)

''The Children of Sanchez'' (1978)

''The Passage'' (1979)

''The Salamander'' (1981)

''Crosscurrent'' (1981)

''Lion of the Desert'' (1981)

''High Risk'' (1981)

''Regina Roma'' (1982)

''Valentina'' (1982)

''L'isola del tesoro (Treasure Island in space)'' (1987)

''Onassis: The Richest Man in the World'' (1988)

''Stradivari'' (1989)

''A Man of Passion'' (1989)

''The Old Man and the Sea'' (1990)

''Ghosts Can't Do It'' (1990)

''Revenge'' (1990)

''A Star for Two'' (1991)

''Only the Lonely'' (1991)

''Jungle Fever'' (1991)

''Mobsters'' (1991)

''Last Action Hero'' (1993)

''This Can't Be Love'' (1994)

''Somebody to Love'' (1994)

''A Walk in the Clouds'' (1995)

''Gotti'' (1995)

''The Mayor'' (1996)

''Seven Servants'' (1996)

''Land Guns'' (1999)

''Oriundi'' (1999)

''From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff'' (2002) (documentary)

''Avenging Angelo'' (2001)

Short subjects

''Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light'' (1956)

''San Sebastian 1746 in 1968'' (1968)

''The Voice of La Raza'' (1972) (narrator)

''The Assassination of Julius Caesar'' (1972)

Awards

Year	Film	Role	Awards
1952	''Viva Zapata!''	Eufemio Zapata	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1956		Paul Gauguin	Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
1957	''Wild Is the Wind''	Gino	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
1964		Alexis Zorba

References

External links

The Estate of Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn's artwork

Becker, Josh. "Directing Anthony Quinn"

The Making of ''Lawrence of Arabia'', ''BAFTA Journal'', Winter 1962-3

"Unquelled Persona: encountering the artwork of Anthony Quinn", ''ArtsEditor.com'', 2008

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