Word: cuba
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...Twenty key leaders last week announced their resignation from the CANF over differences with its leader, Jorge Mas Santos, not least over whether to try and disrupt the Grammy ceremony. The more militant elements in the exile community are affronted by the presence of increasingly popular Cuba-based musicians in the awards ceremony, and had planned protest actions in order to draw attention to the Castro government's restrictions on artistic expression. The planned protest followed a long-established exile tradition of protesting anything that could be construed as a normalization of ties with Havana...
...Santos and other moderate CANF leaders saw the Grammys as an opportunity for the exile community to redeem its image in light of the charges of intolerance that followed last year's Elian Gonzalez saga. The protests against the return of the six-year-old to his father in Cuba prompted charges of intolerance within Miami, and did little to endear the exile community to the wider American mainstream. And with pressure mounting in Washington for a reexamination of the four-decade-old embargo against Cuba that has failed to make any discernible dent in Fidel Castro's power...
...importance of tapering their message to the political center, many of the older generation who actually fled Castro's rule are suspicious of anything that smells like compromise. While CANF leaders counseled moderation, a coalition of exile groups vowed to mount a vigorous protest against the presence of the Cuba-based musicians at the event - and despite the efforts by Mas Santos and other younger leaders to broker a compromise, the planned protests ultimately spooked the Grammy organizers into baling out. The decision, which cost Miami's tourist industry some $35 million in lost revenues, was the worst possible outcome...
...million in a remote bus-station locker. Before the race is over, Whoopi Goldberg is stranded in the desert; Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, as two brothers whose greed is matched only by their stupidity, get trapped--in their Ford Bronco--atop an airport radar tower; a cow flies; Cuba Gooding Jr. hijacks a bus full of Lucille Ball look-alikes; and a nice Jewish couple played by Jon Lovitz and Kathy Najimy steal Hitler's car from a neo-Nazi museum. "We have, I think, one of the funniest movies in the world," says Paramount chairman Sherry Lansing...
...pair of roller skates, or Laurel and Hardy a decrepit flivver, and they would make some kind of magic with these severely limited means. In the new century, it doesn't take a village to make us laugh, but it does sometimes require overturning a bus (piloted by Cuba Gooding Jr. as a disgraced football official and jammed with Lucy impersonators on their way to a convention), crashing a helicopter or accidentally setting a land speed record in a rocket car driven by Whoopi Goldberg and Lanai Chapman...