Ivan Boesky, the one-time Wall Street ... "Wall Street." "The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good," Gekko tells his shareholders in the film.
Boesky would go to prison in a scandal so brazen that he became the inspiration for the character of Gordon Gekko in the seminal film “Wall Street.” Boesky’s 1986 guilty plea to insider ...
Hill's slicked back hairstyle is reportedly the inspiration for the physical appearance of Michael Douglass' character in the the 1987 film "Wall Street." Serena Boardman of Sotheby's ...