The film tells the story of Bud Fox ( Sheen ), a young stockbroker desperate to succeed who becomes involved with his hero, Gordon Gekko ( Douglas ), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider.

Realizing that Gekko may not do business with him, a desperate Bud provides him some inside information about Bluestar, which Bud learned in a casual conversation from his father.

A dejected Bud returns to his office where Gekko places an order for Bluestar stock and becomes one of Bud's clients.

Gekko gives Bud some capital to manage, but the stocks Bud selects — by honest research — lose money.

Instead, Gekko takes Bud under his wing but compels him to unearth new information by any means necessary.

Bud pitches a new idea to Gekko -- buy Bluestar Airlines and expand the company, with Bud as president, using savings achieved by union concessions.

Bud persuades his father, who dislikes Gekko, to get union support for the plan and push for the deal.

Things change when Bud learns that Gekko, in fact, plans to dissolve the company and sell off Bluestar's assets in order to access cash in the company's overfunded pension plan, leaving Carl and the entire Bluestar staff unemployed.

However, when Gekko learns on the evening news that Wildman is buying Bluestar, he realizes that Bud engineered the entire scheme.

Sometime later, Bud confronts Gekko in Central Park.

Following the confrontation, it is revealed that Bud was wearing a wire to record his encounter with Gekko.

Stone liked the " stiffness " of Sheen's acting style and used it to convey the naive nature of Bud who looks up to Gekko.

In one scene, Gekko scoffs at Bud Fox's question as to the moral value of hard work, quoting the example of his ( Gekko's ) father, who worked hard his entire life and died in relative mediocrity.

His tactics finally catch up with him in 1985 when his latest protégé, Bud Fox, is arrested for his role in their illegal trades and agrees to turn state's evidence against Gekko in return for a lighter sentence.

Bud Selig also did not attend the San Francisco Giants ' baseball game on August 7 when Barry Bonds hit his record-breaking 756th home run ; after the event, Selig released a statement congratulating Bonds.

In the late 1980s, city leaders put on a more concerted effort to convince Houston Oilers owner Bud Adams to move to Jacksonville.

Philadelphia Eagles assistant Nick Skorich and a man with Minnesota ties who was working in the CFL, Bud Grant, were also candidates until a different Eagle, quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, was hired on January 18, 1961.

Three days later on March 10, the Vikings hired new head coach Bud Grant to replace Van Brocklin, who had resigned on February 11, 1967.

After the season Steckel was fired, and on December 18, 1984, Bud Grant was rehired as the head coach of the Vikings.

Rich Levin, commissioner Bud Selig's office spokesman, declined to comment on the situation, claiming that MLB did not have a copy of the test results.

On 15 November the Italians retreated to Bud Bud and on the way they were ambushed and suffered heavy casualties.

Bud is a fishing village on the very tip of the Romsdal peninsula.

On his last recording session, in New York, on September 15, 1930, Beiderbecke played on the original recording of Hoagy Carmichael's new song, " Georgia on My Mind ", with Carmichael doing the vocal, Eddie Lang on guitar, Joe Venuti on violin, Jimmy Dorsey on clarinet and alto saxophone, Jack Teagarden on trombone, and Bud Freeman on tenor saxophone.

The designer of the platform, Dr. Lindsey Brigman ( Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ), insists on accompanying the SEAL team, even though her estranged husband, Virgil " Bud " Brigman ( Ed Harris ), is currently serving as the platform's foreman.

However, Bud and Lindsey are too late to stop the remote vehicle and the attached warhead, on a pre-programmed course, from dropping into the trench.

Bud volunteers ; he will not be able to talk and is instead forced to communicate through a keypad on his suit.

Bud, aware this could happen, writes that he has only 5 minutes left, and despite Lindsey's pleas to return, decides to remain on the ledge.

As Bud lies on the ledge awaiting his death, bright lights appear below him and he encounters an aquatic NTI.

When Bud arrives on the NTI ship, he is shown images of humanity's destructive behavior on a view screen.

In Married ... with Children Season 6, Episode 16 Rites of Passage, Al takes Bud to a gentleman's club for his 18th birthday, and the sign with the " House Rules " states " NO DWARF TOSSING "

Bud and Spud give their mother a baby skunk they caught last night as an early birthday present, and everyone sings campfire songs while eating s ' mores ; all except for Chester, who sulks in a corner.

Music superstar Bud Parks, along with his statuesque wife, Alice, and their approximately eight-year-old daughter, Terri Jo, return to his small hometown, fictional Doak City, Indiana, for his paternal grandfather's 80th birthday.

At the birthday party, Bud's high school sweetheart and now sister-in-law, P. J., invites Bud out for a walk, which is met with curious suspicion by Bud's father, Speck.

Bud Webster has in this index granted an act of scholarship and homage of equal irreplaceability.

Although the NFL granted membership to the same owner, the NFL considers it a separate entity since only four of the players ( William " Bud " Cooper, Harry " The Horse " Mattos, Stan Pincura, and Mike Sebastian ) and none of the team's management joined the new NFL team.

She undoes the foolish wishes that the cloak granted, allowing the wiser ones to remain, and graciously allows Bud to use the cloak for one last wish: " that I may become the best king that Noland has ever had!

After their brief reunion, Deanie and Bud see that they must continue their lives separately ; Deanie goes off to marry a doctor in Cincinnati whom she met at the asylum.

Bud Ross has had numerous ventures in MI industry ( including Road Electronics and Ross Systems ) his only " comeback " to something resembling traditional Kustom amplifiers has been limited to a brief venture with his son Andy Ross.

Jazz pianist Bill Cunliffe, whose music was influenced by Bud Powell, said in an interview with All About Jazz:

On rare occasions, the show will stray from its basic format, such as on August 9, 2005, when baseball commissioner Bud Selig was the guest at the very top of the show for an extended interview.

In a 1983 interview, Billy Gray ( who played " Bud ") spoke disparagingly of Father Knows Best: