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...Thursday, and began their 200-mile push toward the capital. Eyewitness accounts from French nationals interviewed by French radio supported rebel claims that they were mopping up the last pockets of resistance by government forces in the city, despite government sources insisting they remain in control. Mahamat Ali Abdallah Nassour - a Chadian general who also carries several ministerial titles - insisted to Radio France International that "the Chadian defense and security forces control the capital," and had forced the rebels into retreat. "We are now securing the city," shot back rebel spokesman Abderamane Koullamalah, as other reports said President...
Before the guessing game started, Producer King and his two brothers were tagged with a $750,000 piracy suit by the Nassour brothers, independent film producers, who charged that The Brave One was lifted from a story they have been animating for the last four years. Nassour's screenplay was done by Paul Rader, 33, now a Boston television producer, who adapted a script written by Willis O'Brien, the Hollywood special-effects man who put the chill into oldtime movies, e.g., King Kong. After the Oscar-awarding show, Rader got a wooden Oscar from his co-workers...
Hollywood's Nassour Studios, site of many an independent film production, fell a casualty last week in show business' battle of the century: the movies v. television. Los Angeles' TV station KTTV bought the studios for $2,250,000, planned to use them for producing TV film shorts for 25 stations as far away as Manhattan. For Hollywood it was only a minor setback. But it gave the nervous movie industry fresh cause to wonder, worry and scheme over the troubles still to fly from the Pandora's box in U.S. living rooms...
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