The noted investor has finally– finally!– weighed in on the Goldman charges.
Following a screening in New York City last night of the new burlesque documentary, “Behind the Burly Q,” actor Michael Douglas had a reunion with his “Basic Instinct” co-star Sharon Stone at a dinner at 21 Club. Naturally, Speakeasy had to ask the man who played Gordon Gekko in the movie “Wall Street” and the coming sequel “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” what he thought of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s securities-fraud case against Goldman Sachs.
“Well it’s a little early to say. I don’t think it’s over yet,” Douglas said. “But I think, ‘How embarrassed is the SEC?’ … There’s got to be more thorough investigations here. And I think there are probably going to be other situations coming out. Who knows?”
“people who surf http://www.ladymanboyjuice.com on their work computers don’t embarrass easily”
this is true.
-PJ
a pic deserving of a cap contest…
i know my boys at gs did nothing wrong.
-SL
Not to be a buzz kill here but Michael Douglas is actually a pretty successful investor and philanthropist. He bought a chunk of land on a Santa Barbara cliff and donated it to the people to a be a preserve. I used to jog there all the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Family_Preserve
Additionally, he has several RE investments that he has since flipped before the crash.
@1 you got that right !
As the kid said in Princess Bride: “They’re kissing again. Do you have to show the kissing parts?”
- The guy who doesn’t think of himself as homohphobic but, nonetheless, does not want to watch messrs. Douglas and Le Beouf make out.
Shia LaBeouf is hot. When’s her next movie coming out?
Michael Douglas for SEC chair.
@4 “that he has since flipped before the crash.” Interesting verb tense – did he borrow Doc. Brown’s De Lorean?
1.21 gigawatts!!!
You’re walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
Micheal Douglas is uglier than Chelsea Clinton.
I see what you did there. Don’t think I didn’t notice.
Ummm, Obama?
yeah, WE WANT OUR FUCKING $1M donation back!
If we duped people out of money and donated it to you, then you should want to return it!
oh and you are a fuckin hypocrite.
Michael Douglas? THE Actor!!?
4- he’s also a helluva father
@ 9 touché
Mr. Douglas gets to have pillow talk with CZJ. In other news, Ashley Dupre’s “pillow talk” consists of how to get the stains off them.
@ 16, too soon.
@4 he donated land to the people of Santa Barbara? I heard he then bought lunch for all the weekenders in East hampton.
What a guy!
Do you think he will visit his son often IN PRISON? Ya know in between movies and parties and tending to his other kids.
Its not like he didn’t have a wake up call.
DIDNT THIS HAPPEN TO HIM IN THE MOVIE TRAFFIC?
Michael Douglas is angling to replace CG on CNBC, it seems.
That girl in traffic is hot. When’s her next movie coming out?
@4
He also lost a boat-load of his $ when the markets crapped out, but I mean, yea, helluva investor clearly
anal- he actually made much of that loss back. But that doesn’t detract from his clear in ability to be a father or for that matter human.
His letter to the judge was pathetic.
@22 NO SHIT! She was awesome in Swimfan.
A former boss of mine who worked for EZ Serve in Los Angeles told me a story about how he, my boss, was in a typical, small nearly empty blue collar Pico Street tavern one evening long ago and in walks Kirk Douglas. So my boss says, “Mr. Douglas, when you’re ready for it, I’m buying you a drink.” And Kirk Douglas said, “I’m ready for it now..” So my boss ordered the drink and Kirk Douglas started asking my boss about the oil and gas business and they had a nice chat. After a while, Mr. Douglas said he had to go and thanked my boss for the drink and walked away into the Los Angeles night. My boss was pretty impressed with Kirk Douglas after that.
@14 – Antisemite.
- Lebowski Fan
You know, you could argue that the guy sacrifices babies to Stalin, eats his own feces, and once forcibly pink-socked Bess, and he could still just say “yeah, well, doesn’t matter. I’m banging CZJ, asshole”.
And you know what? He’d be right.
@28 too true… Michael Douglas FTW!
Golf clap for 28
@28…banging “like a screen door in a hurricane”, too. Like Atilla the Hun’s breachers at a castle’s door. Like an armless man moving a 5-foot tall box.
“Seriously, I would have ripped the SEC open like my wife during intercourse, but my son is due to be sentenced very soon, I do not want to piss anyone off in the government. How come a Wall Street executive can commit so much destruction on the economy and suffer no consequence while my son is looking at 1o years for a little dealing drugs”.
MD
I hear he’s had some recent work done.
-Guy that momentarily mistook this comment section for TMZ.
@6
We never thought you were homophobic in the first place.
<3 xoxox,
Jimmy & Vito from the club
- Two guys that know better than to throw stones from their shiny glass houses.
@ 32
I didn’t know the populist anti wall street anger had penetrated this site… and you sure are giving them too much credit thinking you bashing the SEC here could somehow make its way back to the court in bumblef#$@ staten island or wherever your son dealt his “drugs”
I hope your post was satirical if it was… bravo and disregard the above ^
Do you think I can get bit part in the Wall Street sequel?
How come no one asked him about his screwed up son? His son is pissed because he can never get a hot wife like his dad.