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     JIM SACCOMANO, Broncos Dir of Media Relations, said
yesterday he heard no indications that any Broncos players would
boycott Monday night's game against Oakland in accordance with
LOUIS FARRAKHAN's "Million Man March."  Farrakhan is calling on
black athletes to boycott work Monday in a show of unity
(Minneapolis STAR-TRIBUNE, 10/11). ....Actor TOMMY LEE JONES is
interested in directing "3rd Down Forever" -- the story of
rebellious Univ. of Oklahoma football player JOE DON LOONEY for
20th Century Fox (VARIETY, 10/9-15 issue)....NICK BOLLETTIERI has
sold his book "My Aces, My Faults," written with DICK SCHAAP, to
Hearst/Avon "for an undisclosed, but hefty, sum."  It is
scheduled for release on August 15 (TENNIS, 11/95 issue).

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