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...example out of me for everybody else to shut up. These other owners would rather give away their savings and loans than lose their respectability, end up like I am, hounded, harassed, broke. I'm being slammed and ridiculed and called a thief and a bum and a liar. They even tied me into Noriega for forming a Panamanian company to do business in England. Nothing wrong with any part of it. The committee flat said I was doing drugs. Lincoln made a loan to Covenant House, and I waived one of the interest payments on the building which housed...
...Stark (Steel Magnolias, Annie) last week acquired film rights to Barbarians at the Gate, a best-selling account of the $25 billion takeover of RJR Nabisco, the largest buyout ever. Warner Bros. has paid a sum estimated to be in the high six figures for the privilege of filming Liar's Poker, an I-lived-with- savages expose of the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers. And the cameras are ready to roll on the movie version of Tom Wolfe's blockbuster novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, which stars Tom Hanks in the role of bond trader Sherman McCoy...
Ritter explained all this by saying that like many former drug runners, Kite needed a fake identity to be protected from the Mob. Ritter brought Kite's father to New York, where he declared that his son was a chronic liar. Still, Ritter warned, copycats might surface in the wake of Kite's allegations...
...woods and the goddess of grain" (afterglow). Half the novel is about her ill-fated passion; the rest is her resume. Leila did the '60s ("I produced happenings with Yoko Ono") and civil rights ("Mississippi with Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney"). She sounds a little like the pathological liar on Saturday Night Live: Yeah, that's it, I dated Martin Luther King, that's the ticket...
...most vulnerable species of all is the customer, victimized by salesmen whose bonuses depend on how many questionable securities they can unload. Retribution is the rarest commodity on Wall Street, but in Liar's Poker it makes several appearances. In 1986 the financial action begins to leave Salomon Brothers for other concerns -- and so do many of the best employees. The house that has thrived on hostile takeovers itself becomes a target. Then comes the Crash of '87, when "investors froze like deer in headlights" and hardened professionals were "helpless as they watched their beloved market...