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	James Sandecker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Dirk Pitt adventure novels by acclaimed novelist Clive Cussler, Admiral James Sandecker is the Director of NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency.
		Sandecker graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy class of 1939.
		In the 2005 film Sahara, Sandecker was portrayed by William H. Macy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Sandecker (206 words)

	NUMA
		Version 2: After his retirement, Admiral James Sandecker is asked to organize a newly funded government agency dedicated to the research of the sea.
		The walls in the waiting room outside Admiral Sandecker's private office are covered with photos in fl frames of the admiral hobnobbing with the rich and famous.
		Sandecker often uses it as an executive dining room, he and his directors relax in plush leather chairs set around a three-meter long conference table crafted from a section of a wooden hull salvaged from a schooner sunk in Lake Erie in 1882.
	www.geocities.com /hn4dpitt/numa.htm (1470 words)

	Un-Official Raise The Titanic!Movie-Synopsis Page
		Sandecker takes the matter to the President, and funding is arranged.
		Sandecker calls a press conference in Washington, announces the plan to raise the Titanic for "scientific purposes," and deftly turns aside questions concerning byzanium.
		Sandecker, Pitt and Seagram await Prevlov who is helicoptered to the deck.
	www.raisethetitanic.com /movie/synopsis.html (1356 words)

	Dirk Pitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dirk Pitt is an adventurer, a sort of blend of James Bond and Indiana Jones.
		In the course of his work as a marine engineer of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), an oceanographic research organization head by Admiral James Sandecker, Dirk Pitt has made numerous important shipwreck discoveries as well as thwarted a large number of plans by villains intent on global catastrophe or world domination.
		Dirk Pitt later went on, in the later novels, to become the head of NUMA when Admiral James Sandecker was appointed as Vice President of the United States by President Ward after the Vice President unexpectedly died in office.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dirk_Pitt (276 words)

	Clive Cussler - Penguin Books Ltd
		After retiring from the navy, Admiral James Sandecker was asked to create a government-funded agency dedicated to the research on, around and under the sea.
		When Sandecker was thinking about the team he'd need to put together, the first person on his list was Dirk Pitt.
		Sandecker's office is on the top floor while the lobby is an atrium that boasts waterfalls and aquariums filled with exotic sea life.
	www.penguin.co.uk /static/cs/uk/0/minisites/clivecussler/dirkpitt/index.html (335 words)

	Sahara
		Matthew McConaughey as Dirk Pitt; Steve Zahn as Al Giordino; PenÃ©lope Cruz as Eva Rojas; William H. Macy as Admiral James Sandecker; Delroy Lindo as CIA Agent Carl; Lambert Wilson as Massarde
		But when Dirk is shown a gold coin linked to a mysterious U.S. Civil War battleship thatâs believed to have sunk in the Niger River, of all places, he and Al split from the team and embark on their own mission.
		Dirk, Al, Eva and Sandecker all seem to be in on a plan to steal a fortune's worth of gold coins from the U.S. government by never revealing that they exist.
	www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0002116.cfm (1217 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Sahara at Epinions.com
		Sandecker sent Rudi along with Dirk and Al.
		Dirk and Al had worked together for NUMA and Sandecker for a long time.
		Sandecker was called admiral by a few people and he made a remark that he didn’t want to work for the government again, so it seems like he had been in the military before going on to work at NUMA.
	www.epinions.com /content_179937578628 (1798 words)

	IGN: Photo Commentary: Sahara
		What he's trying to do here by showing Sandecker the coin is to convince the Admiral to let him borrow his boat, just for a few days, to explore the river.
		With reservations, and of course firmly believing that he's being hoodwinked by Pitt into another foolish operation, Sandecker allows him to use the boat.
		Sandecker is going to be awful upset about that.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/595/595870p1.html (694 words)

	Titanic-Titanic.com :: My fan script for "Raise the Titanic!"
		ADMIRAL JAMES SANDECKER is a retired Navy admiral, past sixty and has the responsibility of being the head of the National Underwater and Marine agency.
		Kemper and Sandecker are both shocked and surprised, as it’s their first time actually hearing more than just the name.
		Sandecker and Seagram are walking toward the main entrance.
	www.titanic-titanic.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=5950 (6656 words)

	Sahara
		Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey, who is a much more appealing superhero than Pierce Brosnan who continued the disappointing replacements for Sean Connery as James Bond), the protagonist in Clive Cussler’s adventure novels is looking for a Civil War ironclad that he thinks somehow ended up in the African desert.
		Along the way they meet Eva Rojas (Penelope Cruz), a World Health Organization (WHO) doctor, who is trying to find out what is causing a mysterious, plague-like illness that’s felling a lot of the natives.
		Into the mix pops Yves Massarde (Lambert Wilson), a slick frenchy who’s working for a corrupt dictator, General Zateb Kazim (Lennie James), the guy responsible for the bad water that’s killing the people Eva is trying to save.
	www.hanthonymedley.com /2005/Sahara.htm (423 words)

	Sahara
		Those unfamiliar with the source material are going to have a much better time as Pitt takes on a ruthless African dictator and a greedy French billionaire who are responsible for launching a lethal red tide of toxic waste, which causes decay, dementia and cannibalism.
		Together these amiable actors possess a certain scrappy screen chemistry in which humor and sarcasm are pivotal but they both are about a decade younger than the characters as written in the novel.
		Fans of the books however should be happy with William H. Macy as Admiral James Sandecker, the dapper head of N. A., which in this movie is now a private company and not an agency of the U.S. government.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/S_2005/sahara.htm (683 words)

	Movie Spoiler for the film - SAHARA
		General Kazim [Lennie James] arrives in his helicopter and demands to know the wherabouts of Dr. Rojas.
		They call Admiral Sandecker who tells them how important it is to shut down the solar incinerator but that he can't offer them any support.
		His water glass is refilled by a waiter that we recognize as a CIA agent friend of Admiral Sandecker.
	www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/sahara.html (1460 words)

	The Forty Fort Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		When we first meet Pitt, Sandecker, and Pitt’s perennial comic sidekick Al Giordino (Steve Zahn of “National Security”), our trio of treasure hunters are pulling an African artifact off the ocean floor near Nigeria, for Yves Massarde (Lambert Wilson of “The Matrix Reloaded”) a wealthy French industrialist.
		After she has recovered from the incident, Admiral Sandecker agrees to let Frank and her hitch a ride with Pitt and Giordino on a NUMA yacht into war-torn Mali where Pitt is tracking down his latest lead on the Texas.
		Sandecker has given Pitt three days to find his fabled ironclad.
	www.ffconnection.com /movies/sahara.html (1056 words)

	Revised Final Draft August 27, 1979
		Admiral JAMES SANDECKER, 61, trim, gray-haired, intelligent, in a conservative civilian suite, and Dr.
		As Sandecker and Seagram come outside and move toward the plane, an ambulance wheels in, turns and backs slowly toward the jet side door.
		Sandecker and Pitt walk toward a car at the curb.
	www.raisethetitanic.com /movie/misc_wp/scripts/rtt_script_revised_final_draft.html (2108 words)

	Coming Soon! Movie Reviews
		Accompanied by his friends Al Giordino and Admiral James Sandecker, he travels the world looking for ship wrecks, sunken treasure, and scientific discoveries.
		Pitt is a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Jacques Cousteau.
		Also getting a lot of laughs is William H. Macy as Admiral James Sandecker and Rainn Wilson as Rudi Gunn, the techno-geek of the lot.
	www.comingsoon.net /news/reviewsnews.php?id=9060 (895 words)

	Sahara movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		Throw in a power-mad warlord (James) and a corporate mogul (Wilson), and you just know these plot threads are going to converge.
		Several of the eye-grabbing action sequences are perhaps a bit too 007 for their own good, complete with derivative music (and even an overwrought lair for the baddie).
		British actor Lenny James is good as General Kazim and Lambert Wilson plays the sleazy businessman with ease.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/s/sahara.htm (1609 words)

	Clive Cussler biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Pitt novels, in particular, have the anything-goes quality of the James Bond or Indiana Jones movies.
		Pitt himself is a two-dimensional, larger-than-life hero reminiscent of Doc Savage and other characters from pulp magazines.
		Its failure was widely attributed to a weak script and the casting of Richard Jordan as Pitt.
	clive-cussler.biography.ms (339 words)

	Review of Trojan Odyssey
		Thirty-six when he was introduced to the world, Pitt was "a consummate man of action, courage and honor," living by the moment and for the moment, "without regret." Ruthless when necessary, he was the son of a United States senator who had graduated from the Air Force Academy.
		His life of adventure began when Admiral James Sandecker, retired from the Navy, became the chief director of the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency and persuaded Pitt to leave the Air Force and help him form NUMA.
		During his stay, Cussler meets Admiral Sandecker, Albert Giordino and Rudi Gunn, as well as an assortment of love interests and villains that his readers have come to know over the years, and finally Pitt.
	www.numa.net /articles/if_it_aint_fun.html (5281 words)

	Sahara George
		Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) is an adventure seeking, treasure hunter of the sea.
		Dirk is in Lagos, Nigeria with his sidekick and life-long buddy Al (Steve Zahn), on a specially outfitted (and expensive) NUMA yacht, where the two rogue divers continue to add constant frustration to Sandecker’s life.
		Ruling Mali is despot dictator General Kazim (Lennie James) and the ruthless businessman Massarde (Lambert Wilson of "The Matrix Revolutions").
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/S_2005/sahara_george.htm (568 words)

	Dirk Pitt Movie Poll - Results Round 4
		NUMA's Rudi Gunn was also envisioned with David Straitharn and James Spader in the fourth and fifth place positions.
		James Earl Jones was a distant third with nine votes.
		Next up is TITANIC king James Cameron with 31 votes, followed at a distant third by George Lucas and Ron Howard with a tie at 13 votes each.
	www.roughedge.com /dirkpittpoll/pittpollround4.htm (807 words)

	The Seattle Times: Movies: Characters cool, action hot in "Sahara"
		Oh, wait a minute — that job is currently open now that Pierce Brosnan has been unceremoniously dumped from his James Bond gig.
		And Pitt works for the deep-pocketed James Sandecker (William H. Macy), a retired admiral with an interest in sunken rarities and little use for obtuse government officials.
		Sandecker gets nowhere with one such American consul in Africa after Pitt and Giordino discover that groundwater contamination from a mysterious factory is killing people for miles around.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/movies/2002234470_sahara08.html (658 words)

	Raise the Titanic - VHS Store
		In this undated file photo originally supplied by Paramount Pictures, James Doohan is shown during an appearance on "Star Trek:The Next Generation" TV series.
		Clive Cussler is a brillant author and Dirk Pitt is the all american hero (James Bond, Indiana Jones and Macgyver all rolled into one) who gets a little short changed in this novel adaption.
		I truly feel that Cussler was robbed of the finer and major points of his work.
	www.markcarey.com /shopping/p/6303060307 (877 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - News - 'Fever Pitch' A Home Run, 'Sahara' Just Indy Lite, By Kurt Loder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Dirk's quest is sidetracked by the race to trace the plague, the spread of which is being hastened by the movie's two designated bad guys, a nasty African dictator (Lennie James) and an icy billionaire industrialist (the vividly supercilious Lambert Wilson).
		Some of it, like a speedboat chase on an African river, is derived from old James Bond films; and some, like the scene in which Eva gets stranded at the bottom of a well, is blithely lifted from the Indy oeuvre itself.
		Breck Eisner, directing his first feature film, captures all of this capably enough; but he wasn't able to work up a lot of visual atmosphere in the bland, sunbaked glare of the Moroccan desert in which most of the movie was shot.
	www.mtv.com /movies/news/articles/1499805/story.jhtml?newsSection=loder (1555 words)

	Hershey Chronicle - News - 04/14/2005 - 'Sahara' proves too referential of better films
		Although his friends at NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) doubt the logic behind this hypothesis, after pleading with NUMA head Admiral James Sandecker (William H. Macy), Pitt is allowed to take a boat in search of this supposed ship.
		The two doctors have reason to believe that its spread is related to African warlord Kazim's (Lennie James) neglect of his people.
		Knowing that they'll be unable to persuade the warlord to confine the afflicted people within his country, Rojas and Hopper continue to search Africa for more data on the mysterious pestilence.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=2249&dept_id=450607&newsid=14330165&PAG=461&rfi=9 (616 words)

	Sahara review, Sahara trailer, photos, images
		In the first of a collection of Clive Cussler stories that seems hellbent on creating a successful film franchise of the character, “Sahara” is a mediocre action flick that could just as well serve as your guilty pleasure of the year.
		The doctor is investigating a possible plague that is swatting the African population, and the main source of the disease is originating from none other than Mali.
		How incredibly convenient for the pair of buddies to team up with the beautiful girl, but the evil General Kazim (Lennie James) isn’t going to let the trio of troublemakers ruin his plans for world domination without sending a few thousand troops to thwart their efforts.
	www.bullzeye.com /mguide/reviews_2005/sahara.htm (502 words)

	The Reader's Advisor
		Tall (6'3"), broad-shouldered, with striking green eyes, Pitt is the son of a Californian senator and a wealthy man thanks to an inheritance from his grandfather, which allows him to indulge his passion for classic cars.
		An Air Force major, his expertise as deep-sea diver has placed him on "loan" to the shipwreck-seeking National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), where he holds the intriguing title of "Special Projects Director" and is answerable to no one but NUMA's commander, Admiral James Sandecker.
		This death-defying adventurer-a sort of combination of James Bond and Indiana Jones-- is not your typical super-hero.
	sachem.suffolk.lib.ny.us /advisor/dirkpitt.htm (845 words)

	The Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		was lying in the hot California sun with a beautiful woman, a Scotch-rocks in one hand, but an urgent call from Admiral James Sandecker, his commander at the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), brings Pitt out of the warm Pacific breezes and straight into a North Atlantic deep freeze.
		The reason: the dis- covery of a long-missing luxury yacht, en route to a secret White House rendezvous, frozen solid in a mil- lion-ton tombstone of ice.
		He also has Kirsti Fyrie, an Icelandic beauty whose twin brother died on the ice-encased yacht and who carries in her heart the secret that Pitt needs to destroy his opponents in this deadly game.
	www.simonsays.com /titles/0684826895 (317 words)

	Edmunds Enterprises of America, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Regardless of this debate, the book is a swift, fun, action packed read that will have you ready to move on to the next Dirk Pitt adventure, Sahara.
		A Japanese business mogul has hatched a daring scheme: use nuclear warheads to flmail the U.S. into recognizing his country's financial supremacy.
		Then there is always his alter ego the swashbuckling hero Dirk Pitt, think a combination of James Bond and Indiana Jones.
	www.edmunds-enterprises.com /linux/product_offers.php/mode/books/ASIN/0671742760/offer/Used (694 words)

	Un-Official Raise The Titanic! Cast & Crew-Jason Robards Page
		In the novel, Dr. Cussler described Admiral James Sandecker as being a little over five feet tall, with flaming red hair and a precisely trimmed Van Dyke beard.
		Tall, lean, almost gaunt, with dolorous deep-set eyes, Jason Robards is repose suggests a man on the edge of total defeat--or, a split-second later, just the opposite--an enormously successful businessman, perhaps, or a government official joyfully riding the apex of a brilliant career.
		In the new film, Robards has been appointed by the President of the United States to administrate the workings of a proven defense scheme utilizing laser beams to form an invisible, impregnable screen around the country.
	www.raisethetitanic.com /movie/misc_wp/castcrew/jason_robards.html (2599 words)

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