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Article: Keiko May Be a Victim of His Fame
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- September 5, 2002
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HALSA, Norway (AP) _ It's a misty Thursday morning and Keiko the killer
whale is alone, a rare sight since Norwegians discovered the "Free
Willy" movie star in a fjord and flocked to pet and play with him.
It was stardom from three "Free Willy" movies that set the campaign
in motion to reintroduce the six-ton orca to the open sea after he
spent much of his life in captivity.
But six weeks after he was released from his pen in Iceland, his keepers
are worried that Keiko is becoming a victim of his own celebrity and
are begging people to leave him alone, so that the $20 million project
to return him to the wild can continue.
"We ...