He played Che in the movies, to the acclaim of the few who actually sat through the 4-hour eponymous flick (most of them in Cuba). Now his portrayal of the famous poet, physician, lover of Beethoven, and murderer has garnered Benicio del Toro Cuba’s International Tomas Gutierrez Alea Prize, named for the island nation’s most famous director and propagandist. Del Toro showed up in Havana the other day to receive his award with Bill Murray, James Caan, and Robert Duvall in tow, all of them there to do “research,” presumably for another movie. Will they be filming in Cuba? “That depends on the governments, on the American government,” says Benicio. That may be sooner than later. The Obami have expressed the intention of “recasting” relations with the Communist dictatorship, and things are already improving. Last week, according to Reuters, “the United States said a Bush-era news ticker on the U.S. Interests Section building in Havana, which the Cuban government viewed as an affront, had been turned off.” At the awards ceremony, gushes BBC News, “Murray sang songs to union members packed into a room behind the group’s main headquarters.”