The anecdote was reproduced with unbeatable accuracy. At the exact corner of 18 de Julio and Yi, an adolescent Homero Alsina Thevenet (hereinafter, Homero or, in a nice coincidence with the Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, HAT) meets René Arturo Despouey, a mythical figure on the city’s cultural scene. After Eugenio Alsina (journalist and father of the teenager) made the required presentations, Despouey invited HAT to write in his magazine, Cinema Radio News. By then, that little boy in shorts had already shown a precocious interest in cinema, enough to win a radio contest about movies,…