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Web posted on: Thursday, July 16, 1998 5:28:55 PM EDT
Today's buzz stories:
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Prince Charles
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LONDON (CNN) -- In an open letter featured in a two-page spread of the tabloid The Sun on Thursday, Prince Charles appealed for funds to help save Nepalese children from prostitution. Charles offered a limited edition of one of his watercolor paintings and says he hopes to raise at least $81,900 to help a refuge for children forced to work as prostitutes. It is run by "Angel of Mercy" Anuradha Koirala in Kathmandu. Charles, who visited the refuge in February, said: "Her story of child trafficking and prostitution was horrifying and it seemed to me I might be able to help in some way."
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McCartney
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LONDON (CNN) -- "Wide Prairie," a short film made by Linda McCartney shortly before she died of breast cancer in April, will make its world premiere at next month's Edinburgh Film Festival. The animated film is based on a song that
she wrote and recorded. Argentine artist Oscar Grillo planned and directed the film with McCartney, wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney. "It was so evocative. Beautiful images. She rode at night and felt the stars and open sky were so close she was riding in the skies," Grillo said.
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Banderas
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Antonio Banderas has withdrawn from a film about
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, The New York Times reports. The $25 million production is being directed by Tarquin Olivier, 61, son of actor Laurence Olivier, but now the project has no lead actor. Banderas' agent, Lisa Baum, said Banderas wanted to devote full time to another film, "The Phantom of the Opera." But Olivier said Banderas withdrew in reaction to protests by Greek-Americans who objected to the idea of a film devoted to Ataturk, which one protester described as a "savage maniac."
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"60 Minutes"
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- After much speculation, CBS says it has approved a second "60
Minutes" edition to start early next year, appointing Jeff Fager, now producer of Dan Rather's evening news broadcast, as executive in charge of the second edition. The new show's working title is "60 Minutes II." The original show began in 1968. "There's a real tradition here of quality storytelling and that's what `60 Minutes' lives up to every week," said Fager, who spent six years as a producer on the show. "There's room for more of that." Questions about what night it will air and who the correspondents were left unanswered.
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