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...tale from last week? Not quite. Fox is a character in Wall Street, a film directed by Oliver Stone (Platoon) and scheduled for December release that uncannily captures the real Wall Street's current mood. Says Kenneth Lipper, a former partner at Salomon Brothers and the movie's chief consultant: "There is a brooding omnipresence that the prosperity on Wall Street is headed toward a cataclysmic end." Stone, however, downplays the parallels. "You see the shadow of the crash, but Wall Street is the story of an individual...
...heat, even if they are concealed or underground. The U.S. and the Soviets now relay satellite information to ground stations immediately, without the hours-long delay of earlier transmissions. The U.S. has eleven of 18 projected NAVSTAR global positioning satellites in place, allowing military units down to the platoon level to use briefcase-size sensors in plotting their own locations within a few yards. Cruise missiles travel to their targets guided by digital mapping and targeting information transmitted from satellites. The U.S. is on the verge of installing satellite-oriented targeting systems in "smart" artillery shells and short-range missiles...
Tour of Duty, CBS's ambitious Viet Nam series, should have been smarter and better timed. This cleaned-up-for-TV look at an American platoon in 1967 might have just passed muster a couple of years ago, before the recent surge of Hollywood interest in Viet Nam. After Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, it just won't do. When a battle-hardened sergeant (Terence Knox) grills a group of new recruits in search of "winners, survivors" for his platoon, he rules out marijuana users right away: "If you're smokin' dope and gettin' high, you're not listenin...
Like a general getting his troops psyched for battle, Oliver Stone glared across the littered landscape of buy and sell orders, coffee cups, telephones and blinking green computer monitors. "Remember," the director of Platoon ordered the brigade of button-down young actors, "you're supposed to be making money." Loads of it, in fact. The Viet Nam soldier turned Oscar- winning filmmaker was on location in New York City to film Wall Street, a $15 million 20th Century-Fox production about the rise and fall of an ambitious young stockbroker, starring Charlie Sheen, his father Martin, Daryl Hannah and Michael...
...Viet Nam to the concrete canyons of Manhattan, Stone had his problems with both. "I don't like to work in an office," he complains. "Being under fluorescent light for two weeks is almost equivalent to being under 105 degrees sun in the Philippines." Stone is not the only Platoon veteran who thinks so. Charlie Sheen traded his M-16 for an M.B.A. to play an overeager stockbroker named Bud Fox. The actor found the white-collar trenches of Gotham "much worse. When you get this overloaded mentality, it's tough to find ways to relax yourself. It's tougher...