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January 18, 2003, 08:02 AM
And you thought he just pretended to be the President on TV....
Martin Sheen: An act of faith: president of the peace movement
From his earliest days, Sheen has been a rebel, a nonconformist, a man who delights in challenging authority at the highest levels by standing four-square on his own unshakable moral sense. His radicalism has its roots in a certain populist strain of Catholicism stretching back to his boyhood in a large immigrant family in Ohio; it was nurtured by the shattering experience of the Vietnam War and the rise of Cesar Chavez,
then almost came unstuck in the huge existential adventure that eventually became Apocalypse Now. Sheen had problems with alcohol back then, and indeed shot the celebrated opening sequence of the film after a day of hard drinking that undid him every bit as much as his war-addled character, Willard. The strain and the mounting craziness of the production gave him a heart attack so severe that a priest even gave him the last rites. But he recovered; the film became a hit, and the traumatic experience in the Philippine jungle stirred within him a renewed sense of spiritual and political commitment.
Guess we'd better give him the Medal of Honor and a Purple Heart for toughing out making a movie in the Philippines and cutting himself in a drunken stupor.:banghead:
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=370331
Martin Sheen: An act of faith: president of the peace movement
From his earliest days, Sheen has been a rebel, a nonconformist, a man who delights in challenging authority at the highest levels by standing four-square on his own unshakable moral sense. His radicalism has its roots in a certain populist strain of Catholicism stretching back to his boyhood in a large immigrant family in Ohio; it was nurtured by the shattering experience of the Vietnam War and the rise of Cesar Chavez,
then almost came unstuck in the huge existential adventure that eventually became Apocalypse Now. Sheen had problems with alcohol back then, and indeed shot the celebrated opening sequence of the film after a day of hard drinking that undid him every bit as much as his war-addled character, Willard. The strain and the mounting craziness of the production gave him a heart attack so severe that a priest even gave him the last rites. But he recovered; the film became a hit, and the traumatic experience in the Philippine jungle stirred within him a renewed sense of spiritual and political commitment.
Guess we'd better give him the Medal of Honor and a Purple Heart for toughing out making a movie in the Philippines and cutting himself in a drunken stupor.:banghead:
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=370331