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Some of the best river rafting in the world can be found in Zimbabwe, where the Zambesi River flows east from Victoria Falls. I was there a number of years ago, on location with Damned River, a rafting film I'd written with my friend Bayard Johnson. We of course went rafting. They tell you that if the raft overturns get out of the crocodile-infested water as fast as you possibly can. It's startling to relaize that we're just part of the food chain, and not necessarily the top. Thanks to that movie we came face to face with predators of another kind. There was ample evidence a couple of years later that we had been mightily ripped off by Wild River, starring Meryl Streep. Our producer brought a plagiarism suit against Universal Pictures that promised to make us a bundle. I was in the offices of the studio's high-priced Century City lawyers, waiting to give my deposition, when an assistant informed me that our producer had called off the suit. Not surprisingly, he went on to produce films for Universal while we, as the saying goes, got bupkus. Talk about sharks.