Born Yesterday

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The End.

Here’s a still from the end of the movie Born Yesterday . And here’s a great Flickr group pool of many “the end” “finis” “end” etc. still shots of movies.

A clip from Born Yesterday.

Raising a glass to toast…..”To all the dumb chumps and crazy broads past, present and future; who thirst for knowledge and thirst for truth; who fight for justice and civilize each other, and make it so tough for crooks like you…and me.”

Directed by George Cukor and starring the cute Judy Holliday and the great yelling Broderick Crawford.

~More thoughts on Born Yesterday.

~ Even more “deep-thots” on The End from Michael Lewis (h/t Bruce Ross):

The second company for which Eisman was given sole responsibility was Lomas Financial, which had just emerged from bankruptcy. “I put a sell rating on the thing because it was a piece of shit,” Eisman says. “I didn’t know that you weren’t supposed to put a sell rating on companies. I thought there were three boxes—buy, hold, sell—and you could pick the one you thought you should.” He was pressured generally to be a bit more upbeat, but upbeat wasn’t Steve Eisman’s style. Upbeat and Eisman didn’t occupy the same planet. A hedge fund manager who counts Eisman as a friend set out to explain him to me but quit a minute into it. After describing how Eisman exposed various important people as either liars or idiots, the hedge fund manager started to laugh. “He’s sort of a prick in a way, but he’s smart and honest and fearless.”

And there’s more.

I haven’t read Lewis’ books, but the one I want to read is Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
wherein he assesses the Oakland Athletics baseball club and how they became a successful team despite disadvantaged revenue and the lack of the seemingly all-important big salary players. There might be parallels to what happened to the financial companies on Wall Street.