“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

Hollywood has found its next bad guy. Welcome back, Gordon Gekko. Film and television studios are rushing to tap America's fixation with the financial crisis and anger at the Wall Street executives blamed for it.News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox is making a sequel to Wall Street, where Michael Douglas's Gekko proclaimed, "Greed is good." NBC's Law & Order is building episodes around financial themes. The General Electric Co. unit also is developing a one-hour series called Outrageous Behaviour, a battle of the sexes set in Wall Street."Our development is tied to what is relevant in today's world," Teri Weinberg, NBC Entertainment's executive vice-president overseeing comedy and drama programming, said in an e-mail. "We hope to exemplify the foolishness of the human condition in the world of finance."

-Bloomberg
Oct 25 2008