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Actor Danny Glover in Nigeria to star in movie about Ebola

LAGOS, Nigeria

U.S. actor Danny Glover said Thursday that he is in Nigeria to star in a movie based on people who risked and sacrificed their lives to stop the spread of Ebola in Africa’s most-populous country.

Glover said he is proud to take part in the film, called “93 Days,” because of the achievements made by the real-life characters. Nigerian actress Bimbo Akintola will portray Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh, who along with her team diagnosed the first Ebola case in Nigeria.

Dr. Adadevoh put the patient under quarantine, and stubbornly refused to discharge the Liberian man who was sick with the infection despite pressure.

Dr. Adadevoh eventually died along with three other hospital staff that had contracted the disease. Her actions ensured that the fast-spreading viral infection was quickly contained.

Glover will portray the director of the hospital where Adadevoh worked.

Dennis Greene, founding member of Sha Na Na, dies at 66

DAYTON

A founding member of the retro-rock/doo-wop group Sha Na Na who later became a movie-studio executive and law professor, has died. Dennis Greene was 66.

Greene’s nephew, Edward Robinson, says his uncle died Saturday in Columbus after a brief illness.

Greene performed with Sha Na Na at Woodstock in 1969 and with the group in the 1978 movie “Grease.”

Robinson said Thursday the New York City native left the group in 1984 to study law and later worked as a Columbia Pictures vice president. He said Greene appreciated opportunities from his music career, but law was his passion.

Greene began teaching law at the University of Dayton in 2001.

Viewers decline for night two of Colbert

NEW YORK

After a big opening night, ratings for the “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” came back to earth Wednesday.

Colbert averaged 3.66 million viewers for his second CBS program, according to Nielsen, down 44 percent from the 6.55 million who watched his heavily promoted debut Tuesday. NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” was back on top for the night with 4.06 million viewers.

ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” scored 1.85 million viewers, bouncing back a bit after taking a hit Tuesday due to sampling for Colbert.

Vindicator wire services