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Serfs of cinema: independent producers make film about lives of Hollywood assistants.
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When Budd Schulberg wrote "What Makes Sammy Run" six decades ago, little did he realize that his classic Hollywood character, Sammy Glick, would become a role model for future generations of young studio executives.
"(Schulberg's book has) become the bible," said Terry Keefe, a former Hollywood assistant and independent filmmaker.
Keefe and his partner Michael Wechsler, also a former Hollywood assistant, have created then' own version of Sammy Glick: a character named Roman Sofine, who is at the center of their low-budget black comedy, "Slaves of ...
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AFRICAN LEADERS VOW TO RESCUE NIGER RIVER
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...leaders vow to rescue Niger River PARIS, Apr 27, 2004...been committed for the Niger Basin to date -- including...countries of the world -- Niger, Mali ... all of them...Key to saving the Niger River Basin, she added, was...often ignored. Unlike rivers and other surface ...
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ENVIRONMENT-WEST AFRICA: NIGER RIVER ARTERIES CLOGGED
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...30 (IPS/GIN) -- The Niger river snakes through nine countries...of central Guinea where the river begins, small islands of sand...The silting up of the Niger river has caused our revenues to...ground, and several small rivers have disappeared," he told...
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ENVIRONMENT-WEST AFRICA: NIGER RIVER ARTERIES CLOGGED.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service
; ...30 (IPS/GIN) -- The Niger river snakes through nine countries...of central Guinea where the river begins, small islands of sand...The silting up of the Niger river has caused our revenues to...ground, and several small rivers have disappeared," he told...
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African heads of state meet open Niger River basin conference
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...conference on the receding waters of the Niger River, the continent's third-longest river...a place of desolation and misery," said Niger President Mamadou Tandja, who is head of the Niger Basin Authority. The authority has been...
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Switzerland: Donors pledge aid to Niger River development.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo
; ...dams and irrigation along West Africa's Niger River, a regional organization said on Tuesday. Donors committed funds at a conference in Niger's capital Niamey on Monday organized by the Niger Basin Authority, a nine-country body that...
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Nigeria : Access to information on the dredging of the lower Niger River.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo
; ...to the dredging of the Lower River Niger without respect or compliance...communities on the banks of the River Niger in eight States, including...Imo, Kogi, Niger, and Rivers States. As part of the project...and expansion of the Onitsha River Port and the establishment...
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Nigeria: $1.4bn okayed to save drying Niger River.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo
; ...sum of $1.4 billion at a Conference in the Niger capital Niamey to help save the Niger River from drying up. The money will be used among other things to build dams, and plant trees. The Niger River is Africa s third largest river and runs...
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DEVELOPMENT-NIGER: RIVER BANK IMPROVEMENTS YIELD ARABLE LAND
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...IPS) -- Land improvements in the Niger River valley in the west and the Komadougou...Special National Program (SNP) for Niger. IFAD's SNP project, which began...Of the 12 improved areas along the Niger River, four, totalling 80 hectares...
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The World Bank supports efforts to reverse land and water degradation in the Niger River Basin.
M2 Presswire
; ...land and water degradation in the Niger River Basin(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...manage the implementation of the Niger River Basin Water and Environmental...the nine member countries of the Niger Basin Authority (Benin, Burkina...
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Torrential rains in Mali kill scores, leave authorities watching rising Niger River
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...Monday, warning of worse to come if the Niger River spills its banks. The hardest-hit regions...committee, and asked residents along the Niger River to sandbag the shores. Authorities say the Niger River, Africa's second-longest, is...
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