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20 January 2003 | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Two Los Angeles city councilmen, Eric Garcetti, and his predecessor, Jackie Goldberg, demanded that filmmakers make donations of as much as $10,000 in exchange for their support for closing parts of an L.A. freeway in 1998 and 2000, the Los Angeles Times disclosed today (Monday). Goldberg, now a member of the Assembly, acknowledged that she had asked movie companies in a handful of cases to make a donation to a charity on which she serves as a member of an advisory in return for her support, but said that she was supporting community interests. Producer Lance O'Connor told the Times that he had originally been asked to contribute $10,000 to one of Goldberg's charities, but, he asked, "Why should I be paying contributions to anybody when ... I already have to pay a fortune for permit fees?" David Thornsberry, location manager for Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, said that the request for payment surprised him. "If we didn't pay, I wasn't going to get [the permit]," Thornsberry said. »

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