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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (46519)	10/15/2000 11:36:29 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769670

Saturday October 14 3:16 PM ET 'The Contender' Sparks Political Controversy Reuters Photo LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Gary Oldman claims that DreamWorks paid to turn his new film, ``The Contender'' into anti-Republican propaganda that serves the Democratic agenda of studio owners Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, Premiere magazine reported. In the magazine's November issue, the right-leaning British actor and his manager, Douglas Urbanski, charge that ''Contender'' writer and director Rod Lurie edited the film to fit the political tastes of Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen with DreamWorks picking up the tab. DreamWorks officials and Lurie denied that the film was politically slanted or edited to reflect a studio political agenda. Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen are major Democratic Party (news - web sites) backers in Hollywood.... ..The magazine quoted Urbanski as calling the movie ``almost a Goebbels-like piece of propaganda'' and also suggesting that the November presidential battle was a factor in the changes.. dailynews.yahoo.com