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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...
...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...
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...
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...
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...