"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If director Oliver Stone and I had a nickel for every time someone uttered the words ‘greed is good,’” screenwriter Stanley Weiser noted near the end of 2008, “we could have bought up the remains of ...

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 Douglas wasn't much help. So why not ask the man who wrote ...

US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara launched a personal Twitter feed on Friday, and calls himself in his bio a “Patriotic American & proud immigrant,” but also “Movie buff.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It’s been a week since our new president took office and there’s already been some changes made. But the changes that everyone seems to ...

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 ...

A quick Google search of “Mitt Romney” and “Gordon Gekko” brings back nearly 100,000 results that use both names—and that’s just from this past week alone. What’s more, I would guess a fair percentage ...

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 ...