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When independent filmmakers team up with major studios, the drawbacks of working for a big company suddenly hit home. Director Spike Lee, whose 1986 picture She's Gotta Have It earned $7 million on a $200,000 budget, recently caught flak from executives of Columbia Pictures, the Coca-Cola subsidiary that is distributing his current $6 million movie. Reason: Lee's lead character was named Slice, which happens to be a brand of soft drink produced by rival Pepsi-Cola. The director reluctantly changed the character's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lights! Camera! Cut the Budget! | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...armed with automatic weapons came nosing around the rhino refuge at Lewa Downs. "But we put out the message that if they came in, a few of them would have to die along with us," says Anna Merz. Under the driver's seat in her car, she carries a spike-headed club. She is not licensed to carry a gun, but she employs guards with old Enfield rifles to patrol her fenced-in 7,500-acre refuge, where approximately 16 rhinos live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Harvard's Ian Dyer--whose powerful slams kept Harvard in the match all night--ended an exhausting and long rally with another spike into Chief territory, thus sealing the 15-13 victory...

Author: By Dan Breiner, | Title: Spikers Spank Springfield, 3-2 | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

Continuing tonight is the 7th Black Independent Filmmakers Film Festival, a five film collection that includes a 1983 film by Spike Lee--the director of She's Gotta Have It --called Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: CURTAIN CALL: | 2/6/1987 | See Source »

While the crowd of 32,993 sat in stunnedsilence, the Angels scored again in the third.Shortstop Spike Owen made a high throw for anerror on Wilfong's one-out grounder, and singlesby Boone and Pettis increased the lead to 5-0.Pettis had been 0-for-9 against Clemens until thehit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Sox Blasted, 8-1 | 10/8/1986 | See Source »

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