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By David Weidner, MarketWatch
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — For a generation of Wall Street bankers, the symbol of the perfect investment banker wasn’t any flesh-and-blood individual in the industry, it was Michael Douglas.
Douglas reprised his role as Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” which opened last weekend and was the top box-office draw, grossing more than $19 million. The movie, like the industry in which it’s set, seems to have prospered from a lack of meaningful competition.
