In a new PSA from the FBI denouncing insider trading, Michael Douglas, star of Wall Street and Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleep tells the American public that the Oliver Stone movies were fictional. But! Read More
“Are you a bee? Do you like to sting people?” a handsome banking executive in a merlot-colored suit growls to his protégé. It is early afternoon in the third-floor offices of a midtown skyscraper, the News Corporation headquarters, and select middle-aged men are watching an advanced screening of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the Oliver Read More
With the ups and downs of the Dow during the last month feeling like a ride on the Cyclone, it’s no wonder that 20th Century Fox wants to get their long-gestating Wall Street sequel, generically titled Money Never Sleeps, back on the fast track. The follow-up to Oliver Stone’s seminal 1987 film has been Read More
“You’re catching me at a crazy time,” Michael Shvo said over the phone from his limo last month.
The audacious marketing genius behind such hugely hyped high-end condo projects as Bryant Park Tower and 20 Pine The Collection had just returned to Manhattan after several weeks overseas. While family business took top priority—his father Read More
Picture a character like Entourage’s Ari Gold or Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko. He’s high-powered, hard-driving, arrogant, misanthropic and politically incorrect. He has a knack for turning out bitter bon mots that simultaneously frighten and amuse. Now imagine him as the hiring partner at one of the nation’s top law firms, venting his spleen on the Read More
Picture a character like Entourage’s Ari Gold or Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko. He’s high-powered, hard-driving, arrogant, misanthropic and politically incorrect. He has a knack for turning out bitter bon mots that simultaneously frighten and amuse. Now imagine him as the hiring partner at one of the nation’s top law firms, venting his spleen on the Read More
Well now, let’s bring on the Bobos and see if they can make it in the language. There is no predicting about gimmicky ideas such as this one. Only time and the success of an adroit publicity campaign will tell us if “Bobo” is to be the successor term to “yuppie.” As it stands, the Read More
It was a boys’ night out. Caesar salads, steaks, creamed spinach, whisky and big talk at the Palm on Second Avenue at East 45th Street. Someone’s brother, Eric Welsh, 27, showed up. I ended up in a cab with him. On the way downtown, he said he was a day trader and had lost $800,000 Read More
