Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI has 120 persons targeted for violations of insider trading. And, in a blast from the past, the actor, Michael Douglas, who portrayed Gordon Gekko in the 1980’s movie, Wall Street, is the new spokesman for the FBI.
He can be seen in a television commercial asking people to get in touch with the FBI if they have information about insider trading.
Wow.
What movie characters (and the real-life actors/actresses who played them) would make good spokesmen for the government in other areas?
Hmm. Well, with all the bad actions chosen by movie characters, it shouldn’t be too hard to come up with a long list of actors who could extol the virtues of not participating in various vices and illegal actions.