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ROGER & ME. In this impish documentary about auto layoffs in Flint, Mich., filmmaker Michael Moore comes across as a Garrison Keillor with a movie camera. And a mission: to beard General Motors Chairman Roger Smith. The picture is sharp and funny. But did Moore have to make his adversaries look so stupid so he could look smart...
...said greed is good; so did Ivan Boesky, the dapper king of arbitrage, before he ended up going to prison (Gekko presumably landed there too). And the close of the decade was symbolized by Boesky not just going to prison but also emerging on leave in a long white beard that made him look like some reincarnation of the Ancient Mariner or King Lear...
...Boesky made millions with investors' money. The inside trader paid a record $100 million to settle civil charges for his high jinks and later was sentenced to three years in a federal prison. When he was recently released on a furlough, he emerged sporting a ragged Howard Hughes- style beard...
...needs no pillow to pad his belly, no rouge to redden his cheeks. And even in the heated subway, a morning's worth of icicles make his department-store beard seem real to the touch...
Singh has sea-blue eyes, magnified by thick, round glasses; his beard, unshaved since he was 17, is sparse and wiry. Born Paul LaBombard, he was, in adult eyes, a bad influence on anybody who knew him as a teenager. He ran away from his working-class family, smoked dope and organized a high school SDS chapter. Lacking money for college, he spent two winters camping out and gathering shells for a living in Key West. He was arrested at the Mayday antiwar demonstrations in Washington in 1971, and spent three days locked up in the basement of the Department...