they feel like they have no control over this man and they order martin sheen to terminate him." story behind the film is anything but simple. "apocalypse now" was fraught with problems during its production in the phillippines in the spring and summer of 1976. "a typhoon hit the phillippines, at one point, that completely destroyed sets" "at one point, martin sheen had a heart attack on the set. he had suffered severe chest pains. they found out he had a serious heart attack so he was sidelined for several weeks while they had to film stuff on the boat without him." "horror has a face and you must make a friend of horror." marlon brando meanwhile arrived to set much heavier than expected. so coppola primarily shot his scenes in close-ups and in shadows. on the set, coppola encouraged improvisation, but he couldn't come up with an ending for the film and the experience was was increasingly troubling to him. "he thought he was not only making a bad picture, but a pretentious picture and he felt that he was not going to come out of this alive. there were even times where he conside

tell me when martin sheen is going to be there. ( laughter ) i really want to go see it.lay is famous for being beautiful but also thetite approximately "six degrees of separation" has become sort of a biword in a game. >> yes. >> stephen: in our culture. the idea being that everyone in the world, there are only six degrees of separation between you and any other person so we're all connected. >> yes, exactly. >> stephen: let's talk about the president, for a second. do you have six degrees of separation between you and the most powerful man in the world? >> yes, i do, absolutely. i was cast in a woody allen movie called see celebrity "back when, and i had to play this real estate agent and was at this big, fancy party -- i can't remember what the circumstances were, but i was at this party, it was, like, 25 tables of people, and they're filming my scene and my character has to say, oh, yes, i've got a fabulous tri-plex on east 83r 83rd street, you must come look at it. i'm making up lines, but woody allen says triplex or (pronouncing). (pronouncing). i said, triplex. he