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To watch four hours of the so-called documentary on the eight years of the Clinton presidency gave me the sensation of a report about a glass of water that is 75 percent full and 25 percent empty. The PBS presentation, I am guessing, spent 75 percent of the four hours reporting on 25 percent of the story, i.e., the issue of "scandal" in the Clinton presidency, omitting the substance and policy achievements of the Clinton presidency, i.e., issues that affected the lives of most Americans and that they care about most.
But the problem with the presentation wasn't just my view of disproportional emphasis on the "scandals" versus the substance. It was about accuracy. The writers and producers simply got it wrong. They failed to report the fact that every single "scandal" that so preoccupied the media, the punditry and partisan Republicans over the eight years -- save for the final one,...
But the problem with the presentation wasn't just my view of disproportional emphasis on the "scandals" versus the substance. It was about accuracy. The writers and producers simply got it wrong. They failed to report the fact that every single "scandal" that so preoccupied the media, the punditry and partisan Republicans over the eight years -- save for the final one,...
- 2/23/2012
- by Lanny Davis
- Aol TV.
A massive new history of Goldman Sachs fails to ask serious, important questions about the firm, says Nomi Prins-and just continues a troubling trend of adulation.
I started at Goldman Sachs after a nine-month interview process. A few months later, I got some advice from a former partner, who then ran the mortgage department: "Don't worry about how much time you spend with clients. If you want to do well here, remember that senior management are your real clients."
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Beginning of History
That's the firm I knew, and unfortunately for all us, seems to be the reporting strategy that William Cohan pursued in churning out his new Goldman history, Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, that pulls off the seemingly difficult feat of being both incredibly windy and exhausting (nearly 700 pages!) yet completely non-illuminating.
Cohan heavily touts his access to the big boys.
I started at Goldman Sachs after a nine-month interview process. A few months later, I got some advice from a former partner, who then ran the mortgage department: "Don't worry about how much time you spend with clients. If you want to do well here, remember that senior management are your real clients."
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Beginning of History
That's the firm I knew, and unfortunately for all us, seems to be the reporting strategy that William Cohan pursued in churning out his new Goldman history, Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, that pulls off the seemingly difficult feat of being both incredibly windy and exhausting (nearly 700 pages!) yet completely non-illuminating.
Cohan heavily touts his access to the big boys.
- 4/25/2011
- by Nomi Prins
- The Daily Beast
"This has cost the American people trillions of dollars," Ferguson tells Fast Company. If only he were talking about his film and not the deception behind the financial crisis.
Update: Inside Job clenched the Academy Award for best documentary feature on Sunday night.
Charles Ferguson hopes that his movie, Inside Job, will be for the financial industry what An Inconvenient Truth was to global warming: an impassioned call to hold the people who brought the world to the brink of economic collapse responsible for their actions. And, with luck, send them to jail.
Ferguson is no Michael Moore. He’s not a chronic agitator with a megaphone for a mouth. He's a mild-mannered academic, with a PhD in poly sci from MIT. But despite his quiet demeanor, he's mad as hell, and is fearless in calling out bad behavior in the loftiest precincts of power.
Ferguson's natural-born wonkiness is actually his greatest asset.
Update: Inside Job clenched the Academy Award for best documentary feature on Sunday night.
Charles Ferguson hopes that his movie, Inside Job, will be for the financial industry what An Inconvenient Truth was to global warming: an impassioned call to hold the people who brought the world to the brink of economic collapse responsible for their actions. And, with luck, send them to jail.
Ferguson is no Michael Moore. He’s not a chronic agitator with a megaphone for a mouth. He's a mild-mannered academic, with a PhD in poly sci from MIT. But despite his quiet demeanor, he's mad as hell, and is fearless in calling out bad behavior in the loftiest precincts of power.
Ferguson's natural-born wonkiness is actually his greatest asset.
- 2/28/2011
- by Linda Tischler
- Fast Company
As news breaks that MGM has risen out of bankruptcy, this writer would like to take a moment and remember when this studio first entered the news, with its formation being the result of a corporate merger on Wall Street over eighty years ago. Following this merge, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer would be the dominant motion picture studio in Hollywood, from the end of the silent film era through World War II.
The man behind the merger was Marcus Loew, the owner of a large theater chain known as Loew’s Theatres. Wanting to provide a steady supply of films for his theaters, he had purchased both Metro Pictures Corporation and Goldwyn Pictures. However, both of these companies lacked leadership, and Loew was unable to spare his longtime assistant, Nicholas Schenck, as he was needed in New York City to oversee the theater chain. The answer came to Loew when his visited the...
The man behind the merger was Marcus Loew, the owner of a large theater chain known as Loew’s Theatres. Wanting to provide a steady supply of films for his theaters, he had purchased both Metro Pictures Corporation and Goldwyn Pictures. However, both of these companies lacked leadership, and Loew was unable to spare his longtime assistant, Nicholas Schenck, as he was needed in New York City to oversee the theater chain. The answer came to Loew when his visited the...
- 12/21/2010
- by Kristen Coates
- The Film Stage
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New York -- Oliver Stone said here Wednesday that his "Wall Street" sequel benefited "enormously" from product placement that helped expand a tight budget without compromising the integrity of the film.
Answering an audience question at an Advertising Week event, he said the movie was too big for the New York tax credits it got and a $60 million budget from Fox. "Fox is known as a tight studio," he said. "We needed help, and we took it where we could without, I think, prostituting the movie." All the sponsor support "helped us enormously," he concluded.
Stone mentioned Dunkin' Donuts, Ducati, tech firms, hedge fund firm SkyBridge and possibly energy drinks as advertising partners on the film. "No big, big cash, no Gillette shaving cream," he highlighted. "There was no scene that we did out of the way specifically to accommodate."
In fact, the film producers were approached by many advertisers and couldn't take them all.
Answering an audience question at an Advertising Week event, he said the movie was too big for the New York tax credits it got and a $60 million budget from Fox. "Fox is known as a tight studio," he said. "We needed help, and we took it where we could without, I think, prostituting the movie." All the sponsor support "helped us enormously," he concluded.
Stone mentioned Dunkin' Donuts, Ducati, tech firms, hedge fund firm SkyBridge and possibly energy drinks as advertising partners on the film. "No big, big cash, no Gillette shaving cream," he highlighted. "There was no scene that we did out of the way specifically to accommodate."
In fact, the film producers were approached by many advertisers and couldn't take them all.
- 9/29/2010
- by By Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Reviewed at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival.
Roughly halfway through "Inside Job," Andrew Lo, a professor of finance at MIT, describes an academic study of brain activity that showed that the same part of the brain stimulated by money is the same as cocaine. That this observation is made in the midst of a montage of Wall Street's infatuation with hookers, blow and the black corporate credit cards used to charge the latter two doesn't just imply that the pursuit of cash is a drug, but that as a filmmaker, Charles Ferguson has taken the gloves off.
Since his Oscar-winning 2007 doc "No End in Sight," Ferguson has gone from attacking a war to declaring one on Wall Street with a film that just as easily could've been called "No End in Sight II: Financial Edition." Broken down into four chapters and countless graphs, "Inside Job" is another brilliant, scrupulous breakdown of...
Roughly halfway through "Inside Job," Andrew Lo, a professor of finance at MIT, describes an academic study of brain activity that showed that the same part of the brain stimulated by money is the same as cocaine. That this observation is made in the midst of a montage of Wall Street's infatuation with hookers, blow and the black corporate credit cards used to charge the latter two doesn't just imply that the pursuit of cash is a drug, but that as a filmmaker, Charles Ferguson has taken the gloves off.
Since his Oscar-winning 2007 doc "No End in Sight," Ferguson has gone from attacking a war to declaring one on Wall Street with a film that just as easily could've been called "No End in Sight II: Financial Edition." Broken down into four chapters and countless graphs, "Inside Job" is another brilliant, scrupulous breakdown of...
- 9/8/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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