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...there are movies worth the risk of a felony indictment, surely The Hulk is not among them. It is a truth Kerry Gonzalez now appreciates daily. Gonzalez, 24, was an insurance underwriter in New Jersey last June: a nice kid with gelled hair, a college degree and no criminal record. Then he put a copy of The Hulk up on the Web--two weeks before it opened in theaters. Within weeks, a million people had downloaded it; movie geeks had panned the film online based on Gonzalez's copy, which had unfinished special effects; and the FBI was looking...
...lost his job, his freedom and even his best friend because of a movie he has never seen, Gonzalez seems surprisingly accepting of his punishment. "They had to do it to someone--and it was me. So what can you do?" he says, serving up a weary smile...
...Isabel C. Gonzalez...
DIED. RUBEN GONZALEZ, 84, Cuban pianist who rose to international fame as a member of the Buena Vista Social Club band; of respiratory and kidney failure; in Havana. With a gutsy and playful musical style, he was a pioneer of the mambo and the cha-cha. But it wasn't until 1996, at age 77, after his only piano had been destroyed by woodworms, that he was invited to join a multi-generational group of Cuban musicians, whose Buena Vista Social Club album won a Grammy, sold some 8 million copies and was the subject of an Oscar-nominated film...
What it all boils down to is the trite but true observation that voters are all too often seduced into voting against their own self-interest and traditional beliefs by smokescreens like abortion, Elian Gonzalez or school prayer. Times are tough for liberal Catholics over at St. Paul’s church, and the political landscape has slowly shifted further right. Republicans have been drooling for Jewish votes, dangling the Israel-Palestine issue as a carrot. I hope that liberals at Hillel heed the warnings from what has happened to American Catholics...