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His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".
The 1987 Oliver Stone film Wall Street created the iconic figure of Gordon Gekko who used the phrase " greed is good ", which caught on in the cultural parlance.
The film tells the story of Bud Fox ( Sheen ), a young stockbroker desperate to succeed who becomes involved with his hero, Gordon Gekko ( Douglas ), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider.
He wants to become involved with his hero, the corporate raider Gordon Gekko ( Michael Douglas ), a ruthless and legendary Wall Street player, whose values could not conflict more with those of Bud's father Carl ( Martin Sheen ), a blue-collar maintenance foreman at Bluestar Airlines and president of Bluestar's machinists ' union, who believes success is achieved through work and actually providing something of value, not speculating on the goods and services of others.
* Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko
Reportedly, Gordon Gekko is said to be a composite of several people: Owen Morrisey, who was involved in a $ 20 million insider trading scandal in 1985, Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, corporate raider Carl Icahn, art collector Asher Edelman, agent Michael Ovitz, and Stone himself.
" When I was writing some of the dialogue I would listen to Oliver on the phone and sometimes he talks very rapid-fire, the way Gordon Gekko does ".
In Wall Street the hard-working Carl Fox and the cutthroat businessman Gordon Gekko represent the fathers.
In his review for the Globe and Mail, Jay Scott praised the performances of the two leads: " But Douglas's portrayal of Gordon Gekko is an oily triumph and as the kid Gekko thinks he has found in Fox (' Poor, smart and hungry ; no feelings '), Charlie Sheen evolves persuasively from gung-ho capitalist child to wily adolescent corporate raider to morally appalled adult ".
I wanted to be like Gordon Gekko ".
Enron is a fiction, in a sense, in the same way that Gordon Gekko's buying and selling was a fiction ... Kenny Lay-he's the new Gordon Gekko ".
Michael Douglas reprised his role as Gordon Gekko.
That same year he played tycoon Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street for which he received an Academy Award as Best Actor.
In February, 2012, following his return to the character of financial criminal Gordon Gekko, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a public service announcement video of Michael Douglas calling on viewers to report financial crime.
This is similar to the " Greed is Good " speech made by Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street.
In this film, the ruthless investor Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, purchases the failing airline Blue Star, under the pretense that he will restructure the company and return it to profitability.
* Gordon Gekko, fictional character in Wall Street played by Michael Dogulas
Noted manufacturers include Albert Thurston ( sold re-branded by most outfitters ), who supply high-profile actors, such as Daniel Craig in the role of James Bond in Casino Royale and Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street and John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness in Torchwood.
The phone is well known for being used by Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, Zack Morris in Saved by the Bell and Tommy Vercetti in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

Gordon and Wall
Albert Hamilton Gordon ( July 21, 1901 – May 1, 2009 ), was a businessman who transformed the Wall Street firm of Kidder Peabody.
* Albert Hamilton Gordon ( 1919 )Wall Street businessman, philanthropist
Increasing awareness of the Faustian bargain underlying the American Dream, famously articulated as " Greed is good " by Gordon Gecko in the 1987 film Wall Street, has generated a new American consensus.
He also claims to have consulted for the original Wall Street movie by telling the filmmakers how he would get through to Gordon Gekko.
According to the storyline Rotunda had inherited a lot of money, turned heel and then adopted the name “ Michael Wallstreet ” ( a gimmick patterned after Gordon Gekko from the film Wall Street ).
In February 2012, Higgins and Gordon launched Planet Human as the new umbrella label for Human Imprint and SubHuman with the following artist roster: Dieselboy, Smash Gordon, Bare, Hulk, Mark Instinct, Mayhem, Muffler, Nerd Rage, Nightwalker, NumbernIn6, Pixel Fist, Sluggo, Subshock, Dan Wall, Zardonic.
Gordon Gekko is a fictional character, the main antagonist of the 1987 film Wall Street and the antihero of its 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, both directed by Oliver Stone.
* In the UK sitcom Only Fools and Horses, the main character Derek Trotter sees the film ' Wall Street ' and tries to dress like Gordon Gekko even commenting, ' I've got Gordon Gekko braces '.
* In the movie Boiler Room ( 2000 ), the characters played by Nicky Katt and Vin Diesel recite by heart lines of Gordon Gekko in front of a crew of their co-workers, while Wall Street is playing on TV.

Gordon and Street
Rachel worked in the Political Office at 10 Downing Street under Gordon Brown.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. on May, 6th 1876 organized what was billed as the first polo match in the United States at Dickel's Riding Academy at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Gordon was born at 31 Marion Street in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Following a Football Association led campaign to persuade FIFA to award medals to all the winners ’ squad members, Bonetti was presented with his medal by Gordon Brown at a ceremony at 10 Downing Street on 10 June 2009.
Past this interchange, Route 28 becomes West Westfield Avenue and crosses into Roselle Park, where it continues through a mix of residences and commercial establishments, where it crosses over the Raritan Valley Line and intersects with County Route 617 ( Faitoute Avenue / Gordon Street ) before heading into the downtown area of Roselle Park.
On 5 May, Lumley said that she had received private assurances of support from a senior member of the Royal Family, and attended a meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street the following day.
The Guardian accessed: 9 March 2007 </ ref > The Granita Pact between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair is said to have been made at a now defunct restaurant on Upper Street.
* St. Augustines Catholic Church Gordon Street
* Gordon Reynolds 1939-1942 ( later organist of St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London )
Also joining them are their human friends, Gordon, Maria, Olivia and Linda with Bob aiding them from Sesame Street.
From 1952 Burke attended the Mayer Sulzberger Junior High School at 701 – 741 North 48th Street in the Mill Creek neighborhood of West Philadelphia, where he was a member of a choir organized by Miss Joy Goings, that included McCoy Tyner ; three future members of The Castelles: George Grant, Billy Taylor and Octavius Anthony ; Lee Andrews ; William " Sonny " Gordon, later of the Angels and The Turbans, who lived a couple of houses from Burke ; George Tindley of the Dreams ; and George Pounds, Karl English, and Melvin Story of the Cherokees.
G. Gordon Liddy has acted in several films, including Street Asylum, Camp Cucamonga, Adventures in Spying, Rules of Engagement.
Later it emerged that the source of the story had been Damian McBride, then a Treasury civil servant who as a result of this became a special adviser to the then Chancellor, Gordon Brown who in 2009 resigned from a similar position in Number 10 Downing Street following publication of emails indicating a plan to smear leading Conservative politicians.
In 1995, Buscemi played suspected cop-shooter Gordon Pratt in the episode " End Game " at the end of a three-episode arc of Homicide: Life on the Street.
It is true that he had the authority of Kendall's poem " On a Street ", but years afterwards George Gordon McCrae told the present writer that Kendall " made the worst of everything including himself ".
This strip was titled as The Bash Street Dogs and was drawn by Nigel Parkinson, as Gordon Bell is now retired.

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