Financial advisers starring on the big screen
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Sherman McCoy in “The Bonfire of the Vanities” (1990)
Sherman McCoy (Tom Hanks) is a blue-blood bond trader who makes a series of wrong turns at home, at work and in the Bronx.
“I understand you went to Yale.” — Sherman McCoy
InvestmentNews assessment: The book is better than the movie. But Sherman is still a pompous ass in both.