Word: sheen
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...creative talents are starting to take notice. Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann (Miami Vice) and John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) were among a group of Hollywood producers who appeared before a convention of cable executives in Los Angeles this month to avow their interest in producing shows for cable. Martin Sheen has formed a production company to develop shows exclusively for cable. So has Shelley Duvall, a cable pioneer with her Faerie Tale Theatre series on Showtime. "In terms of creative freedom, cable television today is where broadcast television was in the 1950s," says Duvall. "Producers have a lot of room...
...their country's desires before concluding that today's moral crisis is easily handled with secular expertise. Pat Robertson's practiced intimacy, his instant if shallow friendliness, may frighten some. But it reassures others exactly because he is not theatrical or compelling (as, say, an earlier televangelist, Fulton Sheen, was). That breathy and winking chuckle we heard, debate after debate, did not constitute a last laugh by any means. But we are going to suffer that chuckle's soft abrasions for a long time -- for as long as we remain deaf to the alarm bells it responds...
Monahan said the oil from the spill did not reach the Charles River. "Someone thought they saw a slight sheen on the water, but we checked the river thoroughly, and there was no oil in the water...
Actors seem to agree. Julius Caesar is in rehearsal with Al Pacino and Martin Sheen, each working for $400 a week. Papp is lining up Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline for Much Ado About Nothing, perhaps at the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where he regularly mounts a summer season. And A Midsummer Night's Dream, whose opening last week officially launched the series, features F. Murray Abraham (Oscar winner for Amadeus), Elizabeth McGovern (Ragtime, Ordinary People) and Carl Lumbly (TV's Cagney and Lacey...
Wall Street and Broadcast News have enough acid wit to recall the sophisticated screwball comedies of the '30s, but their subject is greed, '80s style. Charlie Sheen and William Hurt play an avid stockbroker and a laid- back TV journalist who have nothing on their minds but headlong success. Listen to their gaudy argot ! Watch them in perpetual motion ! They' ll be back at Oscar time...