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Title: Re: My Wall Street 2 Story
Dr. Timothy Dutta sending me a Z Pak antibiotic this morning and said I can go to dentist. Will see how sick I
feel...probably stay in bed. Need all my energy for Clooney tonight.
More to come.
xoxo Peg
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softy you are sick, go slow.. no cleaning. stay in bed.. sony..
On Tue. Jan 12. 2010 at 6:17 AM. Peggy Siegal O>
wrote:
Will call you later. I am sick as a dog with a cold. I am supposed to go to Dr. Magnani this morning for a cleaning. If
you get a cleaning with a cold does it make it worse of just infect the dental hygenist?
Had a great lunch for Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster for "The Messenger" at Monkey Bar yesterday and hung with
Clooney at the New York Film Critics Awards last night. Tonight is the National Board of Review and I am thinking of
staying in bed till show time. Have a party for Clooney Wednesday nigh Graydon is hosting at Monkey Bar that we arc
working on.
I have to fly to LA Jan. 14 and I am worried...I have emailed three doctors this morning!
Will call later...Mattie keeps saying she is going to show me how to email photos- will try to do today and call.
I think I got sick in economy class from Lanni, Nairobi. Amsterdan, Newark from all those wanna be terrorists
breathing on me in the planes.
Did you see "Avator". I do not have a dvd because it's 3D.
The white American marines arc wiped out by black people painted bluc....it's going to be highest grossing film in the
world is an few weeks beating out "Titanic" and will win the Oscar for "Best Picture."
xoxo Peg
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terrific. i want to hear more about the trip
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Peggy Siegal <O>
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of it.
Wrote this for the February issue of AVENUE Magazine. Thought it would amuse you. Tell me what you think
xoxo Peggy
HD: Wall Street, Take Two
DEK: In the upcoming sequel to Oliver Stone's groundbreaking film, Gordon Gekko gets out of jail and back to
business. Peggy Siegal takes us behind the scents where she got herself on camera along with a few of her famous friends.
Nice work if you can get it.
In 1987, right after director Oliver Stone won the Academy Award for "Platoon," he immediately turned to a
domestic arena and began working on "Wall Street" in New York City where his father had been a stockbroker. Although
the film was widely seen as a scathing critique of the culture of Wall Street, Stone has said that part of the film is a defense
of capitalism, his father's vision of finance (as seen through the Hal Holbrook character) and an homage to his father.
At the time Oliver was also fascinated with the connection between the psyche of Latino Miami drug dealers
from his earlier "Searface" script and the American-born 28- to 35-year-old, white collar stockbrokers. Both groups had an
animalistic need to obtain big and fast money. They shared an obsession with corruption and greed.
Oliver sent his actors to Bear Steams for research, including then-newcomer Charlie Sheen, who played Bud
Fox. a kid from nowhere. When he learns to cold call, and lands one big client. Gordon Gckko. Fox is thrust into the fast
lane with a rock star financial mentor who teaches him corruption.
Oliver needed an old-fashioned villain to create drama, and he cast Michael Douglas as Gekko against type.
Michael was not known as a heavy at the time, but as a charming, handsome, sensitive leading man. Oliver also saw the
anger, confidence, salesmanship and style that Michael brought to the role. Michael's Gckko looked a bit like Lakces
coach Pat Riley with his slicked back hair and well-cut suits, and it became Michael's most important role, winning him
the Academy Award for the villain no one could ever forget.
When Gekko delivers his speech, "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works,"
cinematic history was made.
"Wall Street" was set in 1985, a time before ten financial news networks broadcasting 2417 existed. The entire
financial services industry was largely unknown and Oliver Stone nailed it.
Four years ago, Wall Street's producer Ed Pressman decided it was time for a sequel and met with Fox Film
Entertainment co-chainnen Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos. Michael Douglas was immediately on-board pending
script approval. Steven Schiff wrote the first script before the global economic crash of 2008 rendered it obsolete.
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Alan Loeb was brought in for a rewrite. Pressman asked me to meet Loeb at the Carlyle Ilotel to explain the
social rhythms of New York's financial high society. Whereas Gekko's character was modeled after '70s junk bond kings
(Michael Milken) and '80s mergers and acquisitions killers (Henry Kravis), Loeb bases the new villain on hedge fund
billionaires like John Paulson and Mike Novogratz. geniuses who have created stratospheric wealth beyond Gordon
Gekko's wildest dreams. When Oliver Stone agreed to direct, he rewrote a portion of the script to focus on bankers as well
as hedge funders, taking no screen credit.
This past September. Oliver yelled. "action" as Gordon Geklco, with long grey hair. comes back to life as he
emerges from a lengthy prison stint shot outside of Sing Sing in Ossining, New York. Gekko is desperate to redefine
himself in a different cm. The New York Post runs a full-page photo of Gekko and Ncw Yorkers immediately become
obsessed with the filming of Wall Street 2.
A week into shooting, a glorious fall day. Ed Pressman invites me on the set at the Central Park Zoo. Oliver
designs an elaborate tracking shot around the seal pool where fiekko, fresh from jail, walks and talks to Jake Moore, a
young idealistic investment banker played by Shia LaBoeuf. They discuss Gekko's daughter MIMIC, Moore's fiancee.
played by Carrie Mulligan, who is also having an off-screen romance with LaBoeuf Oliver played Cupid. Moore invites
Gekko to the Alzheimer's Ball at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dekko, who used to be a sponsor or honoree of such
events, cannot even afford a ticket.
The shot starts with a barking seal jumping for fish, then pans down to the actors. Extras weave in and out. In
one take Michael makes a wrong turn and ends up at the monkey house. Everyone laughs. The atmosphere on the set is
courteous but quick and tense. There is pressure when you arc making a sequel to a hit.
I watch the action on monitors while sitting on the producers' canvas chairs with Pressman. Eric KopeloIT
("Monsters Ball") and Celia Costas, who was a location manager on the first "Wall Street." They have asked me to be an
extra in the Alzheimer's Ball scene and bring some friends to play rich Upper East Side socialites. Oliver wants over the
top glam, go-to-the-vault jewels and couture gowns. "Give me the night before the Titanic goes down," were his exact
words. Not a problem.
I pay a quick visit to Michael in his trailer on Fifth Avenue where he is resting. We go way back. I was his
personal publicist when he won the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Actor for 'Wall Street" and we have remained great
friends. Gekko is just as challenging for him the second time because of endless pages of technical financial dialogue. We
discuss Catherine Zeta-Jones' Broadway debut in a "Little Night Music." Michael has a stack of partially finished
handwritten thank you notes next to him for gilts received for their shared birthday party on September 25th at the St.
Regis. Her 40th and his 65th.
I tell him I have been cast as an extra in two scenes and he laughs knowing I am desperate to hang around him
and the production.
8:30 a.m. on Wednesday. October 2Ist, another wann, stunning fall day. I report to the wardrobe trailer on 65th
Street and Madison Avenue. I carry four elaborate cocktail dresses and bags of matching accessories. My hair is in rollers.
Statuesque Julia Koch walks over from her Park Avenue apartment carrying her white Valentino and long diamond
earrings. Her real-life financial titan husband David is unaware where she is this morning.
Vanity Fair's keeper of the Best Dressed List, Amy Fine Collins, arrives totally organized in turquoise vintage
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Geoffrey Beene, and Vogue's fashion editor Hamish Bowles wears a riot of plaids, patterns and a large yellow fake flower
on his lapel. Costume Designer Ellen Mirojnick, who created Gordon Gekko's rich slick look in the first film, is ecstatic
with the extras I invited.
Oliver is shooting a scene with Josh Brolin (the star of Stone's "W"). His character Bretton (never Bret) James,
a ruthless Wall Street kingpin, and his perfect wife Samantha (Hoene Beck) arc hosting a benefit piano recital for a 13-
year-old child prodigy in their huge, an-filled townhouse at 41 East 65th Street. The building actually belongs to Baby
Jane Holzer, a wealthy an collector still famous for hanging with Andy Warhol in the `60s. Thc production designer had
Jane's fabulous Warhols moved to storage and replaced with matching photographic copies. Very expensive contemporary
art is again an important production element of Oliver's vision.
At 10:30 a.m.. all the extras arc placed around the living room set. Oliver's French mother. Jacqueline Stone,
and her friend Monique Van Vooren, both in their 80s, are seated in front of the fireplace chatting in French. Production
assistants fuss over them. Debonair macho man Chuck PlielTer, who appeared in the original film, and I immediately
invent a back story—I am his corporate wife—and we position ourselves on a couch next to the director's mother. Julia
gets the best spot close to the piano and Amy, !famish and decorator Geoffrey Bradfield are right behind her. Josh is
brought in and the kibitzing stops.
Oliver appears on the set with eagle eyes and a sly grin and quickly re-positions everyone. He explains the scene.
gives out lines to his favored extras, and on his way out to the monitors in the next room mentions that my earrings are too
small. Wardrobe jumps. Josh rehearses and Oliver finally yells. "Action." The kid plays the piano. Josh explains why we
are in his home, asks for money, the camera dollies as extras say their lines and Shia appears at the door uninvited for a
confrontation with Josh. Three hours later a PA yells, "Lunch".
In costume, Amy, Flamish and I run to The Monkey Bar. I am late to meet "The Harpies," including Liz Smith,
Barbara Walters, Cynthia McFadden, Nora Ephron, Jennifer Isham, Maury Pen and Beth Kseniak.
Graydon Carter is at the next table. I tell him Oliver Stone wants him in "Wall Street 2" as an extra. (I make this
up.) Graydon jokes that he only works with lines. I say, "Not a problem." (This will be news to Oliver.)
Back on the set I tell Oliver that Graydon is willing to be in the film with lines. Oliver finds that intriguing.
Oliver shoots the piano recital scene over and over again from different angles all afternoon. Financial wizard
Don Marron saunters on the set to visit and Oliver spontaneously puts him in a scene chatting with Josh. Carrie Mulligan
hangs out watching boyfriend Shia work.
At sundown Julia Koch has to race from reel to real life and explain to her husband where she has been all day.
(He loves it.)
Chuck Pfieffer plants a "Page Six" item and the next day socialites begin calling me to get into the film.
Thursday, November 5, Shun Lee Restaurant, \Vest 65th Street
Oliver shoots a crowded tight interior scene with Michael, Carrie and Shia, who are having an intimate Chinese
dinner. Spontaneously. Oliver decides this is the perfect scene for Graydon Caner. After a flurry of calls. Graydon arrives
on set, and playing himself, sashays by the table. Gekko jumps up to say hello and Graydon brushes him off with a few
dismissive lines.
Monday, November 9, 25 Broadway
One hundred swells show up at the former Canard Shipping building, a massive Italianate hall, at the crack of
dawn for the Alzheimer's Ball. a grand charity event.
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Susan Hess and I arc chauffeured downtown with our Vera Wang gowns and report to the VIP extra holding
area where we join Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia in a bespoke dinner jacket, journalist Christopher Mason, songstress
Yanna Avis, photographer Kelly Klein, art dealer Larry Gagosian's girl friend Shala Monroque in see-through Rodarte,
beauty executive Olivia Chantecaille. producer Lawrence Robins, author Jackie Weld Drake, Vogue film critic Joan Juliet
Buck, fashion consultant Jill Fairchild, CNN's Felicia Taylor and Italian newsman Mario Calvo-Platero.
Ellen Mirojnick and her costume department have assembled racks of the most expensive elaborate designer
gowns and work at break neck speed styling while we wildly strip to our undies in a makeshift dressing area. Ellen pours
me into a black tulle Marchese with a enormous wired silver bow. Twenty hairdressers and make-up artists systematically
work on 250 extras. A mile of tables arc alternately filled with steaming coffee, fattening breakfast foods, hair sprays.
mirrors, shoes and jewelry. It's a madhouse of excitement.
We are led to the part of the set used for the cocktail reception and placed around Michael Douglas and Charlie
Sheen stand-ins. Charlie has been flown in from LA for half a day's work to reprise his original character. He is now the
highest paid television actor commanding two million dollars an episode of "Two and a Half Men."
Oliver arrives on the set greeting. examining, tweaking the shot and always pulling the prettiest girls closest to
the camera. Michael and Charlie arrive from their trailers and run their lines as socials drift into their sight lines
challenging their concentration on pages of dialogue. Oliver yells. "Action" as the extras aggressively jockey for face time.
Charlie is not having an easy day and they do take after take. My corporate husband Chuck Pfieffer has gotten his real
girlfriend Lisa Crosby in the film and my marriage has become a threesome.
Sensing our concern of not making it onto the silver screen Oliver tells his first assistant director to seat a dinner
table with Susan Hess. Jill Fairchild. Prince Dimitri, Chuck Pfieffer, Grace Meigher and Mario Calvo-Platero. He directs
us to chat with each other turning left and right as the camera closely pans past our faces.
Elsewhere on the set are John Buffalo Mailer, as Shia's character's best friend, Austin Pendleton, 94-year-old Eli
Wallach and Natalie Morales. Also in this film are: the magnificent Frank Langone, as Shia's boss, who throws himself in
front of a train early in the film, Susan Sarandon as Shia's real-estate broker mother, Sylvia Miles, who reprises her
hilarious cameo as another real-estate agent and Jean Pigozzi as an international banker.
Lunch is called at 4 p.m. and Michael Douglas takes seven heavily made-up and bejeweled women including
Susan, Jill and me to a restaurant around the comer. Gordon Geklco hosts a hen party talking about children, schools,
country houses and vacations.
Back on the set Oliver is shooting the actual dinner. Assistant directors ask for volunteers to dance to the live
music. Prince Dimitri twirls and dips Jackie Weld. Kelly Klein, in her own Karl Lagerfeld sheer black organza, watches
from a table with scattered champagne glasses half-filled with apple juice along with her 86-year-old father. Tulley
Rector. Charlie Sheen leaves for LA and Shia is very annoyed he was not introduced to his hero. Carrie Mulligan,
costumed like Audrey Hepburn. chats with us between takes.
The final set up is a long tracking shot of Josh Brolin and his wife as they triumphantly enter the ball. It is close
to 9 p.m. and Lord William Astor arrives to pick rue up for Amelia Dayan and Adam Lindeinann's dinner for artists
uptown.
Oliver is introduced to William and delights in calling him Lord as he immediately moves him into the top of the
shot and instructs him to tell Eli Wallach, "We must do lunch". Ever the proper English gentleman. William advises
Oliver that Lords do not use American slang and improvises his own lines. The tracking shot continues for numerous
takes following Josh and Noelle as every VIP extra gets another shot at instant stardom with one-line greetings.
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At last, "It's a wrap" is screamed after 10 p.m. Prince Dimitri tells The Wall Street Journal it was, "a day of
electrifying glamour," and "the longest gala of my life. I was in black tie for thirteen hours."
November 25, Tommy Gun Salon, Ludlow Street, last day of shooting
Donald Trump is on set at 7 a.m. ready for his close up. He is trying to make a mid-day departure on his jet from
Teterboro with wife Melanie and son Baron for Thanksgiving weekend in Palm Beach. Back in September, Oliver had
invited Donald Trump to dinner at "21" to meet his leading men Josh and Shia so they could observe New York's most
charismatic powerbroker in his natural environment.
The scene is London so the grey skies are perfect. Gekko has moved abroad to make his financial comeback. The
scene opens on the back of his head in a barber's chair as he watches the financial news on TV. The camera pulls back and
Gordon Gekko is finally revealed as the powerful bull he once was in an exquisite suit and signature slicked-back hair.
Donald Trump walks into the shop for a cut and the banter begins about the money market. From his chair, Donald leans
into Michael and suggests a "comb over like his famous do. Gekko, with a slight grin, says, "No thanks Donald. 1 am a
gel man."
The crew is yucking it up and Donald feels great. Paparazzi shoot the whole scene with long lenses from across
the street. The unit publicist is helpless to keep this under wraps. Donald emerges, poses and gives interviews. Michael
comes out, and the press think they have a scoop on the ending. Gekko is back in all his lovable titan splendor. Full-page
photos of Michael and Donald run the next day in the tabloids. Never underestimate Oliver Stone's surprise endings.
Twentieth Century Fox releases "Wall Street 2: The Money Never Sleeps" on April 23rd and it's got hit written
all over it.
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