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...weakness: aerobic or strength limitations, lack of com-petitiveness, laziness, fragility. Something. But in Thorpe, Sutton can't find one, and neither can many others. "He marries grace with power," says Armstrong. "He caresses the water, but when it's time to be brutal, he's like a raging bull...
...hope Bull, which is stylishly shot and admirably Street savvy, complicates its world view. Brokers are neither new-economy Guevaras nor inherently evil Gekkos. They're interesting people in a fascinating field that deserves further exploration. But Bull's idealism comes off as, well, bull. "It's not about money," one character says of his career choice. "It's about being at the heart of the world." Uh-huh. As H.L. Mencken said, whenever anyone tells you it's not about money...it's about money...
...networks doubted viewers would agree. But for a cable channel launching its first-ever series, Bull's risk seems worth the potential return. "We wanted to do something that would distinguish ourselves," says TNT programming president Robert DeBitetto. And Chernuchin was able to snag big-screen actors Stanley Tucci and Donald Moffat; Ryan O'Neal has signed for a guest spot...
...racist toff who would twirl his mustache if he had one. "Only a child," he purrs, "would think that the world doesn't work with a wink and a nod and a handshake between old pals smoking Cohibas." His grandson and the renegades' leader, Ditto (George Newbern), is Bull's Luke Skywalker, out to escape Grandpa's musty clutches. In the year's most cornball TV speech outside a convention, he urges his Rolex rebels to "try investing in yourself for once! [Become] the hero of your own life!" What is this, David Copper Futures...
Well, you have to expect a little melodrama--though Bull provides more than a little, saddling its well-heeled heroes mawkishly with personal burdens to up their sympathy quotient. More unsettling is the subtext of Ditto's crusade. Bull has internalized the trendy, bogus messages of Ameritrade ads, "new-economy" magazines like Fast Company and career gurus like Tom Peters: that entrepreneurship is heroism, that job insecurity is emancipation, that work is art and love and rock 'n' roll. Ditto mocks "the suits...who want to stay [at the firm] for the rest of their lives nice and safe...