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Hollywood's Gordon Gekko and his dodgy sidekick speak up for the FBI and Fiat

Hollywood’s Gordon Gekko and his dodgy sidekick speak up for the FBI and Fiat

By Stuart Smith on March 4, 2012

Can bad guys play a redemptive, positive role-model in advertising? I touched on this in my (seemingly popular) post on SS colonel Otto Skorzeny, who has been hailed by British adman Dave Trott as a creative thinker. Now, bizarrely, the two anti-heroes of 1987 film Wall Street have, quite separately, been recruited into public service [...]

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