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BERNIE MADOFF, jailed financier and Ponzi schemer, in a newly released interview with representatives of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which was part of an investigation into the SEC's failure to uncover Madoff's scam for 16 years...
...movies, charging that both were "stricken with a double vision and a double morality, glorifying the society they were so heatedly exposing, exposing the society they could not resist glorifying." He wrote the character of Sammy Glick, his novel's screenwriter antihero, as such a crass schemer, appropriator of other men's work and trampler of decency that no one could possibly mistake him for a role model. Yet Sammy became just that for many a brash entrepreneur in Hollywood and on Wall Street. Schulberg later said he was pained that Glick, reputedly based on writer-producer Jerry Wald...
...Ruler, “her tears had become the battleground of their wills.” With passages such as this, Thiong’o constructs a moving portrait of resistance to unfeeling despotism. Juxtaposed next to the story of the Ruler is that of Tajirika, a dimwitted political schemer. His tale, too, deals with chauvinism. Tajirika is married to Vinjinia, the perfect wife, who accepts his many affairs. Along with the Ruler, he represents the corrupt, repressive status quo. Tajirika is frightened by the specter of a feminist movement and the increasingly outspoken reaction of women against the increasingly...
...their bona fides and, claiming they have great plates to make new bills from, haggle over the price - capitalism at its lowest and the state at its bravest, head to head. Mann choreographs this Apache dance with brisk efficiency. Even the violence is subtle. The key figure is The Schemer (Wallace Ford), who is locked in a steam bath and scalded to death. He goes down with a kind of pathetic majesty, like a corrupt Roman Senator who got in Caligula...
Slick and pretty, Chris Wilton (Rhys-Meyers) is an ex--tennis pro with the schemer's gift of diffident charm: he seems to need so little that the upper class lavishes its largesse on him. What he wants is to be rich, so he weds Chloe (Mortimer), an heiress. But he also loves danger, as incarnated by a fellow outsider, luscious Nola (Johansson). "What I have is sex," she observes. "No one's ever asked for their money back...