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White-collar guys with blood under their manicured nails, Tom Grunick (played by William Hurt in Broadcast News) and Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen in Wall Street) are the ring bearers, the genetically streamlined children, of the new amorality. Bud, in his mid-20s, is learning how to wheel and wheedle; Tom, in his mid-30s, already knows how to ingratiate and conquer. Bud does it with long hours and pit-bull doggedness, Tom with his boyish, passive charisma. Both men might tell you that ideals are as passe as peace marches and that the happening disease, the one everyone wants...
...knew them, he had sex with them, but what they said [about the prostitution ring] was not true," said John F. Sheehan, Henshaw's attorney...
When the two women were arrested, they said the ad was part of a prostitution ring into which Henshaw had lured them. Police had been investigating the existence of such a ring since the fall of 1985, when a student approached them and said she had been pressured into becoming a prostitute...
Henshaw was also found not guilty of luring Maria Picciano, a student at Providence's Johnson and Wales College, into the prostitution ring. In the trial, Picciano said she was not a prostitute, but that she was lonely...
...only unfortunate thing, besides the verdict, was that it would have been nice to have had the testimony of the three other women" who were allegedly involved in the prostitution ring, Craven said. The prosecution was unable to locate the women, whose testimony, Craven said, would have enhanced Kidd...