Word: milken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time Columbia Pictures started thinking about filming Barbarians, whose rights had been optioned to veteran producer Ray Stark (The Way We Were) for $700,000, evil junk-bond genius Michael Milken was well on his way to jail, the takeover era was over, and the public backlash against the excesses of the '80s had started in a big way. Moreover, the catastrophic flop of Brian De Palma's adaptation of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities in 1990 had cooled Hollywood on the idea of making movies set in Manhattan's financial district. Columbia began to shy away from...
...this is not a license to reject law-abiding and respectable citizens like Kimba Wood. By many accounts, Wood could have been a fantastic attorney general. A Federal District Judge since 1988, she has a reputation for toughness that she earned by sentencing Michael Milken to 10 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to six counts of fraud...
...There is no artist in whom self-advertisement and self-esteem are more ecstatically united than Koons: he makes even Julian Schnabel, who recently proclaimed himself to be the nearest thing America has to Picasso, look like a paragon of self-effacement. He has done for narcissism what Michael Milken did for the junk bond...
...Lewis collaborated with Drexel BurnhamLambert Inc.'s Michael R. Milken to engineer TLC's$1 billion buyout of Beatrice InternationalCompany, a food products corporation...
...film Wall Street. For Charles Keating Jr., the former head of the failed Lincoln Savings & Loan, greed could be good for over 500 years in jail and $250 million in penalties. Keating was found guilty of racketeering and fraud by a federal jury. Meanwhile, imprisoned junk-bond king Michael Milken was released to a halfway house...