Word: traders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City police officer, Curtis smiles as she replies, "I wanted to shoot people." Since Blue Steel is a weave of police story and lady-in- distress melodrama, she will eventually get that opportunity. Her target will be Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver), a Wall Street commodities trader whose romantic intensity fascinates Megan at first, before she realizes he is a psychopath. He murders at random and for pleasure; after a kill, he swathes his torso in the blood from his latest victim's sweater. "Death is the greatest kick of all," he confides to Megan. "That's why they save...
There was Sherman McCoy, the doomed bond trader of The Bonfire of the Vanities, a self-styled Master of the Universe, undone by ambition, facing disgrace, jail and the most hideous possibility of all, subways...
...apparently just plain bad luck that as the tanker American Trader was unloading off Southern California's Huntington Beach last week, a sudden swell caused an anchor to tear a 3-ft. gash in the ship's forward compartment. Working by night, the crew plugged the hole within four hours, but an estimated 300,000 gal. of crude poured into the Pacific. At week's end the oil slick covered a 30-sq.-mi. area and was starting to foul beaches and wildlife refuges...
...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, the contemptible Master of the Universe...
Dirtiest Dealer. He was Wall Street's advance man of the greed decade. Slick securities speculator Ivan Boesky made millions with investors' money. The inside trader paid a record $100 million to settle civil charges for his high jinks and later was sentenced to three years in a federal prison. When he was recently released on a furlough, he emerged sporting a ragged Howard Hughes- style beard...