WATCH: Nasarawa Governor, Former APC National Chairman, Others Visit President Tinubu

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1. Another man who exemplifies being master of his fate is Steven Spielberg, one of the all-time great mo-
   ton picture directors. He dreamed of being a movie director from childhood. He began making amateur
   films with a primitive camera when he was still a child, and the dream never subsided.
   How Spielberg broke into Universal Studios is a legend in the movie industry. He took the Universal
   Studios Tour, an attraction that enables visitors to get an inside look at the movie business. Visitors ride
   around the studio lots on a tram. Steven sneaked off the tram and hid between two sound stages until
   the tour ended. When he left at the end of the day, he made a point of saying a few words to the gate
   guard.
   Day after day, he went back to the studio for three months. He walked past the gward, waved at him,
   and he waved back. He always wore a suit and carried a briefcase, letting the guard assume he was one
   of the students with a summer job in the studio. He made a point of speaking to and befriending direc-
   tors, writers, and editors. He even found a vacant office, took it over, and listed his name in the building
   directory.
   He made it his business to get to know Sid Sheinberg, then head of production for the studio's tele-
   vision arm. He showed him his college film project, which so impressed Sheinberg that he put the young
   man under contract with the studio.
   His first full-length film, The Sugarland Express, received critical acclaim and won a best screen-
   play award at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. Unfortunately, it did not do very well at the box office.
   His big break came a year later, when he discovered the book Jaws. The studio had already decided
   to produce Jaws and had chosen a well-known director to film it.
   Spielberg desperately wanted to make this movie. Despite the financial failure of The Sugarland
   Express, his self-confidence had not diminished, and he persuaded the producers to dismiss the chosen
   director and give the film to him.
   It was not an easy assignment. From the beginning trouble beset the production. It ran into technical
   and budget problems. However, when Jaws was released in June 1975, it enjoyed twofold swccess: it
   broke box-office records, and the critics loved it. Within a month of its release, the film had taken in $60
   million at the box office, an unheard-of amount at the time.
   Over the next few years Spielberg directed several movies, including the popular Indiana Jones se-
   ries, the award-winning The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, and E.T.
   He later directed Jurassic Park, which would also become–at its time–the most successful movie
   in history, the third Spielberg film to break the record. It also brought in over $1 billion in gross receipts,
   toys, and other merchandise.
   Spielberg continues to pursue his dreams. When he and two other Hollywood moguls created their
   own production company, they called it "DreamWorks.

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2. How does this meeting mean anything to the majority of people in this country?

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3. Cased closed

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4. Eye service

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5. Eye seo

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6. The kind of political hijacking we are seeing in broad daylight is shocking… I just dey wonder omo

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7. Them wan go seek help to win Court case for the useless governor

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