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How can you hate Wall Street when you make millions on a movie about Wall Street corruption or a movie about black pilots in World War II while at the same time Hollywood buys the Government and refuses to make black movies?
The original purpose of pleats was to allow more fabric for when a man sat down, according to Alan Flusser, author of menswear guidebook "Dressing The Man" and a custom tailor whose credits include Michael Douglas' wardrobe in the original "Wall Street" movie.
Wall Street guys, movie moguls, and bankers had their special restaurants this was our place.
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Invisible Children's CEO, Ben Keesey, even acknowledged to the Wall Street Journal that the movie was made to appeal to children.
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Upon seeing an individual in a Beverly Hills parking lot talking away on the kind of wireless later used to great effect by Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street, all three of us were taken aback.
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"Until that time, we will be referring to the movie as the third Austin Powers, " the spokesman told the Wall Street Journal.
That movie includes a scene in which the young stockbrokers mouthed the words to Wall Street, especially Gordon Gekko's "greed is good" speech.
The technique, adapted from Wall Street risk management strategies, uses data from thousands of films to predict the outcome of any given movie, taking into account budget, stars, release date and genre.
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Mr. Salerno says he admired the director's passion and also thought he might want a change of pace: "He'd just done a movie about a bunch of guys in suits sitting in a room talking" ("Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps").
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