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"Greed is good," preaches Wall Street tycoon Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas). The character brought home all that was wrong — and enticing —... Gordon Gekko, Preaching the Gospel of Greed The 1987 ...

During their conversation, the 81-year-old actor admitted to recently learning which two stars turned down the role of Gordon Gekko before he was cast Still, Douglas said he was "honored" to play the ...

Michael Douglas didn't realise he was the third choice for the role of Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. The 81-year-old actor played the iconic character in the Oliver Stone-directed crime drama film, ...

Oliver Stone directed Wall Street as a morality play, an attack on the venal corporate culture of the Eighties and an ethical lesson on the perils of profit-driven excess. But apparently not everyone ...

I'm probably not the only one who suspects the credit crunch was brought on by men who grew up idolizing Gordon Gekko. When director Oliver Stone's "Wall Street" came out in 1987, nobody wanted to be ...

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 ...