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...film has an interestingly hybrid pedigree. Its producer was John Heyman, who helped arrange financing for Chinatown and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Heyman took the project to Bill Bright, founder of the Evangelical ministry Campus Crusade, who obtained a $3.5 million loan guarantee from Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt. (The film eventually cost $6 million.) Campus Crusade says it consulted with hundreds of scholars and Christian leaders before the movie was made and cast it with Yemenite Jews--except for Jesus, who is played by British actor Brian Deacon...
...held him there for a week, telling him they wanted a ransom of 3 million rupees ($64,000). But as the days dragged on and the police dragnet tightened, the kidnappers became nervous and dropped their price. Eventually, for the promise of $1,700, half of it as a loan, Salahuddin's abductors left him at an isolated village and fled. "I never paid," he says. "They might come back for their money, but then again if I had paid, it would have encouraged them to try again...
...Zhou Zhengyi 2002's 11th richest mainlander, according to Forbes magazine, Zhou was the first in Shanghai to own a Ferrari. He and wife Mao Yuping stand accused of loan and stock fraud and tax evasion...
...Qizhong Will spend life in prison for forging a letter of credit to get a $75 million loan from a state bank...
...next year, he worked with University President Lawrence H. Summers, then undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury, to rescue the Mexican banking industry with a $20 billion U.S. loan...