As previously mentioned two seconds ago, HBO has bought the rights to Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big To Fail. Last night at a talk hosted by Stern, John Mack mentioned the flick, and asked Paulson who he thought should play him. Paulson said “a young Paul Newman,” which, actually, would’ve be perfect if the movie took place forty years ago.
Ever the modest bird watcher, Hank momentarily reconsidered and offered “I’m afraid you’d have to bring back Yul Brynner.” Then Mack, who’s clearly been enjoying his new role as Morgan Stanley gadabout in-residence said that his part should go to Robert DeNiro and that the role of Lloyd Blankfein? Should be taken on by Danny DeVito. So: burn bitch! Supposedly he was just kidding but in every joke lies a glimmer of truth.
John Mack Thinks Danny DeVito Should Play Lloyd Blankfein In Film Version Of Financial Crisis
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- Use the Bloomberg command
NH BLG_DEALBREAKER <GO>
to access Dealbreaker
Geithner as the Leprechaun in the Hood.
Kirstie Alley as Maria Bartaromo
‘When we get out of this I’m gonna shove my fist right into your ass hard and fast…Not in the sexual way! In the ‘I am pissed off’ sort of way.’ tag FTMFW
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “you gotta pay the troll toll”
I never knew Lloyd rocks skinny jeans.
Lucas: I will eat your babies, bitch!
Lloyd: Nobody’s eating anybody’s babies.
Lucas: Come on, let me eat her babies.
The Iceman Cometh…on Lloyd’s face. Green Man!
@6 very nice
“you got the AIG! CDS big time, yeah CDS big time.”
- Mantis Blankfien
“A woman in politics is like a donkey doing calculus.”
-Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs Diversity Symposium, April 13, 2007
I was there last night. Friggin’ boring. The night before they had a one on one with Mack with much less people. It was much better. Mack sounds like the kinda guy you want to have drinks with. Paulson nearly put me to sleep.
I was there too. The best was all the curry-smell jokes about that guy at Citi
Clearly he should play Thain. He already has the singlet.
@11 did you really expect HP to be entertaining?
@12 become marginally funny before commenting again.
Dose bidones at HBO wanted to make a movie from my book, which is better in every way den dat little troia NYT’s writer’s garbage book, but I refused to compromise my principles or my joinalistic integrity. I got my fuckin’ pride, ya know.
So now dey got da second best. Fuck dem.
By da way, did youse know I almost married a girl from Texas? True story…
- The Thug
@1 who all seen the treasury secretary say yeayah!
I think Telly Savalas should play Paulson.
Pflugs/15,
You’s gots to signs ups agains. No user profiles carried over from the old platform.
-FKA LA
I think Paulson should be played by a dead Paul Newman.
The Rock should play CG, since he comes closest to approximating Chas’s financial IQ.
The singlet screams “Thain” not “Blankfein”
I think Paulson should be played by Don Rickles, with better writing.
14 = chai wallah
I think Paulson should be played by Don Rickles, with better writing.
Make me red. (Blows dice.)
Tracy Morgan would be good as Vickram.
Lloyd: (to Barney Frank) You’re about to experience the hard knocks of a free market, bitch. Get ready to feel it where it hurts.
Lucas: Your dick.
Lloyd: No. No, not his dick. His—his wallet.
Wallah wallah bing bang!
LB’s tits are bigger.
there was some tech issue with DB?
@18:
Pfluger the Barbarian will be back! With profile, as soon as p/w is retrieved at other e-mail account. I intend to continue my “cowardly” anyonymous commentary directed at The Thug.
By da way, did you know that The Thug drives a Saturn Ion?
Troll Foot ftw
@29…Lloyd and his boys were trying to hijack the system, much like the public poll that they influenced through GS servers……now Mr.29 please don’t interrupt God’s work.
@24 I do miss EP and her thoughtful posts. Her contributions are buried by the ZH machine and their search function is crap. I am even feeling nostalgic for her 10,000 word sentences. Well maybe not. I need a drink.
@33 missing EP’s dry as fuck/not interesting at all posts? seek help, immediately.
@34 Is help from a bottle insufficient?