CNBC will air "The Last Days of Lehman Brothers" this coming Friday.
Indeed, they'll be running it all evening, in accord with the cable imperative that anything worth broadcasting at all is worth broadcasting a thousand times.
The movie was first aired on BBC last September, a year after the dramatic events portrayed. Here's a YouTube clip, portraying Hank Paulson in a philosophical mood.
I love the viewers' comments beneath that clip, too. What a combined reflection of the Zeitgeist they are.
Cast? Glad you asked.
Corey Johnson plays Dick Fuld, chairman and CEO of Lehman.
James Cromwell plays Hank Paulson, whom you saw in the YouTube clip, talking about the fall of Rome, or the European empires, and now of "us."
Michael Landes plays a fictional character, Zach, an aid to Fuld who also delivers the voiceover narration.
It isn't an A-list cast, but a respectable one. Landes is best known for having played Jimmy Olson in "Lois and Clark" in the early 1990s.
Anyway: Happy viewing.
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Mark Pittman RIP
Mark Pittman died this week (on Wednesday).
Pittman was with Bloomberg News. He was part of a team that won the Loeb Award last year for a five-part series in the financial crisis.
He also did pathbreaking work on Goldman Sachs' interest in the AIG bailout, Hank Paulson's role in creating the subprime mess, and the irresponsibility of the ratings agencies increating the conditions for its spread. In June 2007 he wrote a very detailed and incisive piece about the credit agencies that holds up well even with the benefit of 2 and 1/2 years of hindsight.
Felix Salmon, usually a quite astute guy, criticized Pittman for that story, and now regrets that.
Pittman was an old-school reporter, a native of Kansas City, whose first job was covering police for the Coffeyville Journal in southern Kansas in the early 1980s. Later he was at the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, NY, for twelve years, joining Bloomberg in 1997.
The obits I've seen are not very forthcoming about the cause of death, except that it was heart-related. Regardless: it is a loss.
For more, go here.
Pittman was with Bloomberg News. He was part of a team that won the Loeb Award last year for a five-part series in the financial crisis.
He also did pathbreaking work on Goldman Sachs' interest in the AIG bailout, Hank Paulson's role in creating the subprime mess, and the irresponsibility of the ratings agencies increating the conditions for its spread. In June 2007 he wrote a very detailed and incisive piece about the credit agencies that holds up well even with the benefit of 2 and 1/2 years of hindsight.
Felix Salmon, usually a quite astute guy, criticized Pittman for that story, and now regrets that.
Pittman was an old-school reporter, a native of Kansas City, whose first job was covering police for the Coffeyville Journal in southern Kansas in the early 1980s. Later he was at the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, NY, for twelve years, joining Bloomberg in 1997.
The obits I've seen are not very forthcoming about the cause of death, except that it was heart-related. Regardless: it is a loss.
For more, go here.
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