While Americans remembered the servicemen and women who gave their lives for their country, a couple of people who wear make-up and costumes for a living marked Memorial Day weekend a little differently. Benicio del Toro won the best actor prize at Cannes as the star of Steven Soderbergh’s four-and-a-half hour biopic Che. For those who know Che Guevara only as a t-shirt icon, perhaps this would be a good time to for a Cliff Notes’ version of Hollywood’s favorite revolutionary. Via Slate:

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