This is interesting.
When Max Keiser launched the Hollywood Stock Exchange, he had personified all aspects of the economy with characters: there was MaxBroker (Max Keiser), MacDaddy as the banker (Michael Burns), Dr. Zeros as the fed chairman (Max Keiser), the SEC chair (Denise Fine), and a pair of punk lesbian sisters [!??] who personified the buy/sell functionality of the virtual specialist. All these functionalities were later ripped out [*] —VC’s order, under the advice, it is rumored, from a guy named Tom Freston (MTV), who later interviewed for the CEO post at HSX during the time the company was in pre-IPO stage at Bear Stearns…
[*] It cost over 900K to build the HSX software!
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