Tag: hedge fund king
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Beauties and the Beast: Damian Lewis on Skinny-Dipping and a Bombshell But No Trophy Wife in Billions – Feb 17, 2017
Beauties and the Beast: Back in a New Season of Billions, Damian Lewis on Skinny-Dipping with His Sexy Co-Star and the Bombshell Who’ll Never be a Trophy Wife by Gabrielle Donnelly for Weekend Magazine – Daily Mail – 17 February 2017 You have to take your hat off to Damian Lewis for his uncanny ability to pick…
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Billions is THE Show to Watch – Jan 27, 2016
Billions is THE Show to Watch by Jackie K. Cooper – The Blog – January 27, 2016 SHOWTIME has a hit in its new series “Billions.” After only airing two episodes of a twelve episode season the show has already been renewed for another season. This is all as it should be since “Billions” has…
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In Billions, Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti are Alpha Males Doing Battle – Jan 16, 2016
In ‘Billions,’ Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti are Alpha Males Doing Battle by Mary McNamara, Contact Reporter– Los Angeles Times Television Critic – January 16, 2016 “Billions” is very good television. How could it not be? Created by Brian Koppelman, David Levien (“Ocean’s Thirteen”) and Andrew Ross Sorkin (“Too Big to Fail”), it crackles with…
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Billions Season One: Bobby Axelrod and the American Dream – Jan 15, 2016
Billions: Season One by CHUCK BOWEN – Slant Magazine – January 15, 2016 Billions, money isn’t money, but a scorecard signifying a theoretically cold and objective qualification of bitterness and one-upmanship. The show’s dominating characters are too well-off for currency to matter to them in the visceral fashion that it does for most people. As a struggling…
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Review: Billions Delivers a Dose of Charisma to Hedge Fund Titans – Jan 15, 2016
Review: ‘Billions’ Delivers a Dose of Charisma to Hedge Fund Titans  by Heather Havrilesky – The New York Times – January 15, 2016 Men who make lots of money and growl at one another about profits and margins and winning and losing. Remember them? Americans used to love watching stories about those guys, in the…
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On Showtime’s Billions, Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis Fight a Brutal Class War – Jan 15, 2016
On Showtime’s ‘Billions,’ Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis fight a brutal class war By Alyssa Rosenberg – Washington Post - January 15, 2016 “Billions†is rooted in an intriguing triangle. It follows crusading U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti), who’s made his name going after Wall Street and has set his sights on hedge fund Bobby Axelrod (“Homeland 
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‘Billions’ on Showtime Profits Off Our Fixation on Money – Jan 8, 2016
‘Billions’ on Showtime Profits Off Our Fixation on Money by David Zurawik - The Baltimore Sun – January 8, 2016 Great TV always scratches some deeper itch in the culture. And, in the last three decades at least, that itch has often been connected to money. “The Sopranos” explored the gangster soul of capitalism and the profound emptiness…
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TV Review: Billions – Jan 5, 2016
TV Review: ‘Billions’ by Maureen Ryan – Variety – January 5, 2016 If you are immune to the many charms of Paul Giamatti’s work, and the endless ways in which his “Billions†character displays intelligence and irritation through a series of perfectly deployed glares, this tale of high-powered hedge-fund players and the lawyers they battle may not…