Gordon Gekko is the fictional villain of the popular Oliver Stone movie "Wall Street" who has become a cultural symbol for ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twenty-two years after appearing on the big screen, and one year after the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers, the film character Gordon Gekko continues to resonate on ...

HOLLYWOOD—Everyone knows the credo of Oliver Stone’s all-time villain. “Greed is good.” The director's unmatched portrayal of the 1980s' man-on-the-make in Wall Street's Gordon Gekko is the stuff of ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The crisis on Wall Street has already led confused reporters to turn to Gordon Gekko, aka Michael Douglas, to explain the mess we're in. But ...

The most famous monologue in the movie is known as the “Greed Is Good” speech. Watch it here if you’ve never seen it. Gordon Geckko was known for the hostile takeover. He would take over a struggling ...

American financier Asher Edelman made his name on Wall Street during the 1970s, 80s and 90s with businesses focusing on Investment banking, money management, and derivatives trading. He was even was ...

26 years ago on the New York set of "Wall Street" (the original), Gordon Gekko spoke at a shareholders meeting with protégé Bud Fox in attendance, and the infamous antagonist, played by Michael ...

Ivan Boesky; Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in 'Wall Street' (1987) Getty Images/Everett Ivan F. Boesky, the disgraced 1980s financier who inspired the cutthroat corporate raider Gordon Gekko ...

It was 25 years ago that filmmaker Oliver Stone unveiled his cinematic defamation of American-style capitalism and the free enterprise system. The success of 1987’s “Wall Street” helped brand the ...

One of the biggest problems Mitt Romney has as a candidate is that to many voters he comes across as a calculating businessman who can’t empathize with the working classes. For the first time since ...

Michael Douglas on location for "Wall Street 2" on the streets of Manhattan on November 16, 2009 in New York City. So, Masayoshi Son isn’t WeWork’s savior after all. Until recently, the folks at ...