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...tragedy, Washington, the U.N. and nongovernmental relief organizations are all pointing fingers at one another, insisting that someone else should have seen this coming and taken action. White House officials say they are furious at the U.S. Agency for International Development (U.S.A.I.D.) for not sounding the alarm sooner. But hunger is a constant threat in Sudan, and the main aid supplier, Operation Lifeline Sudan, a consortium of U.N. agencies and nongovernmental organizations, has been in business since 1989, when 250,000 died. Sudan suffered a killer famine as recently as 1994. Everyone involved knew the country would need food...
...story has been corrupted by "so many lies" and a fetishistic--my word--tendency to make too big a deal out of trivia such as Rat Pack slang and haberdashery. "I don't understand this searching for things that weren't there," he says. "It's like a hunger." One senses that being a living legend--the others, of course, are no longer with us--is an awful kind of limbo. It is as if the world were telling him, "Roll over, let go already...
...been thinking about it for a while, and after the National Press Club gig, I'm probably pretty ready... I don't know how serious I am, because I'm already read so widely I don't have that hunger to be heard...
...There's a real hunger for our people to tell their own stories," says Ava Hamilton, who heads the Native American Producers Alliance, an advocacy group of video directors and filmmakers from 20 tribes. "It's not just coming from the Indian community either. Everyone knows that what Hollywood's given us in the past has been pure fiction." Already this year, two other full-length independent features are making the festival circuit looking for exposure--Naturally Native, a heartfelt drama written and co-directed by Valerie Red-Horse, is about sisters trying to launch a cosmetics line...
...that skip willy-nilly from warden's office to cell block, from mess hall to prison yard. The warden (played with fine, greasy intensity by Corin Redgrave, Vanessa's brother) is a sadistic dictator with no redeeming features. The convicts include a bullet-headed tough guy who organizes a hunger strike (James Black); a sympathetically rendered homosexual called Queenie (Jude Akuwudike); and the inevitable "new boy" (Mark Dexter), who arrives at the prison with dreams of running on the U.S. Olympic team--and winds up crippled by the brutal guards...