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In 1983, Burt Lancaster starred in a film called Local Hero. It was about an oil tycoon who wanted to buy a Scottish fishing village in order to exploit the offshore oil in the North Sea. The villagers were torn between selling out for what they hoped would be a huge price and giving up their way of life forever.

In a classic example of life imitating art, Donald Trump has become the Local Hero.

Trump is planning to build an enormously expensive golf resort in northeastern Scotland valued at more than 2 billion dollars. It will boast several golf courses, close to a thousand holiday homes, 36 golf villas and 500 residential dwellings (that won't come cheap).

He has managed to woo the Aberdeenshire council into granting him planning approval which allows him to take his massive project to the next step.

The council claims the Donald's project will inject badly needed jobs and huge amounts of cash into the local economy.

But the townsfolk are battling him every step of the way, citing a threat to one of only five perfect examples of dune habitat in all of Great Britain.

And then there's Michael Forbes who owns 23 acres smack in the middle of Trump's proposed project.

Now, Forbes works in the local quarry but claims he's a salmon fisherman and farmer, doing what his father and grandfather have done before him on the family farm. And he's holding out.

Trump's people, much like Burt Lancaster's point men in Local Hero, have tried to reason with Forbes to no avail.

"We tried to buy his house from him and since he said no, we offered him money to fix up the driveway to his house...we've even offered him a job for life doing whatever job he wants on the estate and we offered to take care of his mother [read into that what you will]. We're trying to be really fair here", said Neil Hobday, Trump's chief golf honcho.

Hobday claims that Forbes only caught one solitary salmon this season so he's hardly a salmon fisherman and his farm yard is filled with a rusty tractor and a few chickens and not much more so he's not really a farmer, either.

And Trump thinks that Forbes is trying to put the old squeeze on the Donald. Imagine.

But Forbes may do what the environmentalists will ultimately be unsuccessful in doing. Money can buy a lot of politicians who will sweep the environmentalists aside like so much flotsam.

However, Forbes is a landowner and a stubborn one at that. And he has a name for the Donald and his crew.

"Slippery Sam and the Gang", he calls them.

Roll tape. This one's going to be a Movie of the Week.