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Top Enron executives Lay, Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow are seen only in passing, but in infamously vivid moments bold EST Sunday cbs Although public outrage over the Enron debacle was fanned by other corporate misconduct also affecting stocks, retirement funds and jobs, attention has been shouldered aside by the prospect of war and other issues Here's Lay exhorting employees to buy slumping Enron stock, then putting in his sell order; there's Skilling, questioned publicly by a skeptical shareholder, snidely replying, "Thanks for the advice, (expletive) arrogant " Greenwald said working on the film rekindled his anger Blue," an unidentified Enron bigwig who issues a liquor-fueled indictment of, among others, banks, analysts and politicians after the company's December 2001 collapse "We're the bad guy Government investigations so far have led to guilty pleas of three Enron officials and the indictment of Fastow, who pleaded innocent in November to charges including fraud and conspiracy Dennehy plays "Mr In another scene, the auditors shoot at a miniature basketball hoop as Cruver wonders how faulty business practices could have been kept hidden "And don't think it's just this company A reference to Enron's "virtual assets" gives Cruver pause, but he quickly jumps into the brutish competition that demands results, however achieved, and rewards them in absurd measure deceptive " The company continues in limited operation There's hundreds of Enrons out there, a thousand CBS wins points for showing a TV movie with something to say He doesn't excuse himself or other Enron executives Cruver finds himself tumbling down Enron's rabbit hole into a realm where integrity is touted but dubious dealmaking and bookkeeping are rewarded We're the criminals," he tells Cruver ) It doesn't take long for Cruver to suspect there's something rotten in Houston, although Enron and its off-kilter "E" logo (redesigned in the movie for copyright reasons) are standing tall with most investors, politicians and media Played partly for farce, partly for tragedy, the film nimbly relates a saga of avarice and hubris that seems implausible even from an insider's vantage point com/corp/ â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? EDITOR'S NOTE â€â€? Lynn Elber can be reached at lelber"at"ap com/ http://www It's a sort of 21st century "Love Story" subplot, with corporate sickness instead of disease threatening young love "Enron is greedy The film, directed by Penelope Spheeris, stars Christian Kane ("Angel") as Cruver and co-stars Brian Dennehy, Mike Farrell, Shannon Elizabeth and Cameron Bancroft (In a detour from the book, which briefly mentions Cruver's wife, the movie depicts his home life as threatened by his newly adopted Enron mores Cooking the books, inflating the earnings, hiding the debt, buying off the watchdogs org While carefully avoiding issues of individual culpability, "The Crooked E" paints a broadly harsh portrait of Enron leadership and the codependents that allowed them to play damaging corporate games " One scene has them intently staring at a computer terminal â€â€? they're scrutinizing golf swings m CBS Movie Recounts Implosion of Enron Dec 30, 3:26 PM EST When new Enron employee Brian Cruver drives into the company parking garage, he's greeted by a gung-ho electronic sign: "Enron is bold There are brief allusions to chairman Kenneth Lay's and Enron's association with President Bush "I did feel the problems were systemic The film is based on Cruver's 2002 book, "Anatomy of Greed" (Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York), which detailed his brief tenure as part of a startup Enron division that â€â€? ironically â€â€? tried to limit companies' risk from the potential bankruptcies of their clients Will viewers respond similarly to "The Crooked E"? â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? On the Net: http://www enron bold " When he leaves eight months later, laid off along with thousands of co-workers after the company's bankruptcy filing, he sees a message of bitterness " Enron vice president Sherron Watkins â€â€? anointed one of Time magazine's Persons of the Year along with fellow whistleblowers Coleen Rowley of the FBI and Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom â€â€? is depicted giving a doomsday warning to Lay " Executive producer Robert Greenwald said he was intent on showing that what happened at Enron was not the result of "one or two rotten apples who did bad things "At this point, it seems like such a long time ago Supposedly overseeing the financial circus are in-house Arthur Andersen auditors, who are played for laughs in "The Crooked E This euphemism called deregulation allowed these people to run roughshod in any way they wanted," said Greenwald "Do you even remember Enron now?" a reporter appearing on PBS' "Washington Week in Review" asked last week " Enron's downfall is depicted through the eyes of Cruver, an eager young MBA grad, in the CBS TV movie "The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron" airing 9 p Managers are paid upfront bonuses on a deal's projected 10-year profits â€â€? which the managers themselves have calculated " "As an actor you try to have a long career, and to stay viable "You have to be lucky," he offers, adding: "There are some people who like to be married I more or less just try to keep going," Walken says For a long time, I never did that," the 61-year-old actor notes There's a touch of evil in his character, like so many of Walken's roles "I was kind of the mayor of Stepford," he says, smiling Besides Walken's crazy quilt of cadences when he speaks â€â€? along with that thousand-yard stare â€â€? another trademark is incorporating a little dance into his movies " His dance background also affects his approach to dialogue â€â€? and more But, gradually, we're starting to see his on-screen characters go from loony to more lovable "And I don't have a lot of things to do otherwise " In his 36th year of marriage, Walken says young actors ask him more about the secret to that longevity than about acting "I believe in saving money and then they rerun it," he says ) So he's even done music videos, including that wonderful star turn dancing throughout Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice " More recently his credits include films that many critics consider execrable: "Joe Dirt," "Kangaroo Jack" and "Gigli "As I get older, I'm starting to play people's uncles and fathers So it's not like he wants to distant himself from the dodgy men he's played in the past " And he's one of them Walken can play silly as well as scary, and his comedic skills recurringly have been used on TV's "Saturday Night Live (There's a big waltz scene in a big ballroom in "The Stepford Wives I have my wife, but she works also Roles Are Evolving for Christopher Walken Jun 10, 11:02 AM EST In "The Stepford Wives," Christopher Walken plays the town's foremost upstanding citizen â€â€? a leader among men (who have turned their wives into fawning slaves) Still, it's happening "The Stepford Wives" is already his third movie this year ("Man on Fire" and "Envy" are the others) with two more to follow " (Georgianne Walken has been casting director for "The Sopranos" as well as scores of movies and TV shows over the years " " In the music world, too, he's now immortalized in the Fountains of Wayne song "Hackensack" â€â€? which he enjoys He worked as an extra in the early days of live television, and became an accomplished song-and-dance man long before his first big splash in the movies, as the brother of "Annie Hall" who fantasizes about suicidally driving his car into a head-on collision After his Oscar-winning performance in "The Deer Hunter," in which he shot himself in the head, his most memorable turns include throwing Michelle Pfeiffer out of a high-rise window in "Batman Returns"; discussing the genetic influence of Africa on Sicilians with Dennis Hopper before shooting him in the head in "True Romance"; and telling a little boy how his father saved a family heirloom in "Pulp Fiction" in a soliloquy that ends up being hilarious "While you're a dancer, there's a sense of if it feels right, it is right I believe in exercising," he says "Slow and steady is a very good thing for me " Another explanation is that, quite the opposite of people he's played over the years, he's easygoing, and so is his wife But think about this: he got his first Oscar nomination (and won) for his performance as a traumatized Vietnam vet who becomes a Russian roulette professional in 1978's "The Deer Hunter"; the second came for playing the sweet, sad father of Leonardo DiCaprio in 2002's "Catch Me If You Can For a long time, he's played someone damaged, dangerous, deranged You try to keep the audience interested," Walken says Finally, he's "conservative" in his life I don't have hobbies He was raised in the Astoria section of Queens by his German baker father and Scottish mother who pushed her three boys into show business " People have approached him about a cooking show, since he's a bit of a kitchen magician ") It's a little like Hitchcock showing up briefly in his movies, Walken says, except in his case people are saying: "Oh, there's Chris, he's doing his thing " Walken has been moving forward in show business since he was 3 It works for me " Walken's new agents were recently quoted as saying that they want him to be more selective about roles "I'm not a big one for opting to wait it out at home for a while for that juicy part "It affects everything And he likes to work as much as possible "I have a friend who does me on his answering machine, so that when I call him it's me picking up the phone on the other side I believe in having a house I don't have children I believe in keeping things clean "And for that matter, if I see somebody on television do an imitation of me, of course, it's great," says Walken, who's been imitated famously by Jay Mohr and Kevin Spacey and not so famously by others "It's very difficult to keep a long career on television "I'd just as soon forge ahead "There's just enormous millions of people who see you He's certainly been in some clunkers, going back to the infamous flop "Heaven's Gate" (1981) and 1983's "Brainstorm It's tempting but it's more tempting to have a career as an actor, he says "Actors are fortunate if people want them, for whatever reason," Walken told The Associated Press during a recent interview But he just laughs when that's brought up, even though he thinks they're right But he won't be wearing a chef's hat on TV anytime soon " "It doesn't occur to me that something might not be a good idea," he says, chortling again ) He's wary, however, of doing much television because the audience is so huge, much more than movies and certainly much more than the theater It affects the way I pick something up," he says " (During a skit on the NBC show last year, he played Col Angus, a confederate officer whose name, repeatedly spoken with a Southern accent, sounds like a sex act It helps that his wife does certain things much better than him, and vice versa, meaning that for them: "One and one is more than two |
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