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...perjury and settled a civil suit charging that he had made $12.6 million in illegal stock- market profits on corporate takeovers. A Securities and Exchange Commission investigation was in full swing, along with criminal investigations by U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. No official accusations were leveled, but Ira Lee Sorkin, the SEC's New York director, disclosed that his agency has 35 insider- trading cases under investigation. Wall Street, said a senior Manhattan investment banker, ''feels like Hollywood in the McCarthy era.'' Speculation that Levine was adding new names to the scandal has been growing exponentially since the former investment wunderkind...
Barack Obama was born in 1961. And so were: Weatherman Sam Champion Actor Scott Baio Writer Aaron Sorkin Actress Meg Ryan Singer Toby Keith...
...Okay, there was no Democrat politburo instructing Hollywood to make anti-war movies - at least, not that I know of. And not every showbiz liberal agreed that the jihadist insurgency should be indicated with a finger that was wagging, pointing or raised. Some of them - Tom Hanks, writer Aaron Sorkin, director Mike Nichols - thought they should do what they do best: turn it all into comedy. The result, Charlie Wilson's War, is that seemingly impossible object these days: a picture about war and politics that has manages to be both rational and inspirational. It is also the year...
...question that the filmmakers and stars are on the top of their game. Hoffman reminds us that, along with his weird and salutary ability to burrow into any character, he is a great line-reader - a crucial asset to a script with the welter of exposition that Sorkin's has (along with many big laughs and even more subversive ones). Roberts gets to parade her luster in evening gowns and bikinis; she amps up the cunning warmth, and we note only in passing that in early middle-age she's starting to frost over into Glenn Close. Hanks, liberated from...
...stroke or his speed. Those deft directorial touches, and the intelligence the movie both exudes and assumes from its audience, put Charlie Wilson's War up there with Hollywood's grand old comedies: the Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder movies about slick schemers and their slicker women. The Nichols-Sorkin film is so much fun, you will not only forget all of Hollywood's serioso war movies, you may forget the international calamities that Wilson's largesse indirectly...