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Peter A. Cohen
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Nov 6, 2026
Finance Movie Review: Barbarians at the Gate
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2:32Richard CoffinHOST
Thou Matter for Later.
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2:33Richard CoffinHOST
There's also Ed Horgan, who works under Ross as the president of tobacco, and Johnny Grenis, who works under Ross as the president of Nabisco, the cookie side of the business.
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2:43Richard CoffinHOST
With Johnny constantly pestering Ross about his excess with these events and his corporate spending.
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2:47speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Just this kind of spending is crazy, Ross.
6 MINS LATER
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8:47Richard CoffinHOST
Shearson Lehman, which, yes, is in fact the same Lehman that would eventually go and kick off the 2008 financial crisis with its own failure.
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8:54Richard CoffinHOST
But that's decades from now.
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8:55Richard CoffinHOST
Going back to the 80s, we have a typical work montage, after which we have this meeting where the president of Shearson Lehman, Peter Cohen, is meeting with Ross to outline their leveraged buyout deal for RJR Nabisco, with them highlighting that while the stock is currently trading at 53 and an eighth, they'll go ahead and offer $75 a share for the company.
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9:13Richard CoffinHOST
which is notably higher than any previous high the stock has ever reached.