Then, suddenly and without warning, he stopped returning phone calls and emails.

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He stopped making movies for many years, returning to Broadway in protest at Warner Bros. letting someone else edit his 1958 film The Left Handed Gun.

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He was returning from a trip to Morocco when border officers stopped him at Portsmouth port last year.

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Things started to go awry, he says, when Bush brought in New York investment banker Porter Bibb to raise money and stopped returning Schonfeld's e-mails this past summer.

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