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...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 Douglas. "I would have never cut the mustard on Wall Street," Stone admitted during a break between scenes. "I did poorly in economics -- I got a C, and my mathematics were suspect," he laughs. "I lost on every stock I ever invested...
...Believers, a movie doing its best to defy description at any length, has some potential in this regard. It posits a Caribbean voodoo cult that offers unlimited worldly power to people willing to sacrifice their young sons in its rituals. And it brings a newly widowed father (Martin Sheen) and his son (Harley Cross) into menacing proximity with the evildoers. A well-made horror film would focus tightly on the son's menaced innocence and force us to share the father's fears as the portents of doom gather about him, his ferocity when at last he must defend...
...entrepreneurial class that has fixated on "masterpieces." One cannot spend $39.9 million on houses, Ferraris or caviar without looking like an ape. Art is the saving grace by which any nasty Croesus with more money than he knows what to do with can look virtuous. It confers an oily sheen of spiritual transcendence and cultural responsibility upon individual and corporation alike. That is why even a soft-porn merchant like Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse magazine, is now a "major" collector...
Once upon a time, when television was young, there was a network known as DuMont. It was the home of Jackie Gleason and Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, and it broadcast the famous Army-McCarthy hearings in their entirety in 1954. But in 1955 it went out of business, and ever since, TV visionaries have dreamed of creating another commercial network to challenge the Big Three. A few half- hearted attempts have been made, but none have succeeded...
...temperature in the capital dipped into the blustery 30s, but participants in "The Grate American Sleep-Out" were undaunted. A dozen members of Congress (including Joe Kennedy), three actors (including Martin Sheen) and Washington Mayor Marion Barry spent the night on a grate near the Library of Congress last week to illustrate the plight of the country's estimated 2 million homeless...