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of the hip-hop generation. The world
his characters inhabit is often as pro-
fane and violent as the rap lyrics they
listen to, and Younger explores all
their young macho posturing like a
hopped-up David Mamet.
His characters quote not only
Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross but
memorize movies like Wall Street.
While doing research, Younger spied
a poster for GoodFellas on one boiler
room wall.
"Popular culture was something
they definitely drew from," Younger
says, "in their dress and their speech,
because they lived in an alternate real-
ity. It was like they couldn't make
independent decisions. They looked
to all these outside sources to take

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cues from on how to live their lives,
and of course, they chose the most
sensational ones."
As Younger explains, the justifi-
cation boiler-room brokers use
reflects just what capitalism has
-become in our era of instant mil-
lionaires: get as much as you can as
fast as possible. How you achieve
that end doesn't matter.
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different.' That's what's amazing." ❑

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always bustling with ten-
"Anybody that tells you. that
Re view sion and activity, where
money is the root of all evil
ambitious Gen-Xers chase
doesn't have any" So goes the
the green at breakneck speed.
mantra of the recruiter at J.T.
The story: is told from the point
Marlin, a sleazy brokerage nestled
of view of Seth as he tries to acc li-
a\vay in the unassuming enclave of
mate himself to the cliquish boiler
suburban Long Island in Ben
room. His circle of comrades
Younger's Boger Room.
As the opening vokeover testifies: includes Chris (Vin Diesel), a mil-
lionaire broker with a fast and foul
20-year-old secretaries at Microsoft
mouth, and Greg (Nicky Katt), an
hav!„stock options worth millions;
arrogant Jewish broker who serves
rap rs have 400-acre
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ut later becomes
as Seth's mentor but
kers are
of him
a*jor
Younger depicts refresh_
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his father .
become ,a
ning a c
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.apartmen
attenas'one of his backdd i.
card games lets him in on the
secret of J. T. Marlin, a broker-
age that can make him rich if
he's enough of a hustler.
Younger does an excellent job
detailing Marlin's boiler room as
the inner sanctum of a fly-by-
night firm, where hyper-aggres-
sive young stock jocks get train-
ing in peddling their services
over the phone. The place
resembles a feverish newsroom,

nservative
weer conscience and
in one definino-
desire
moment, ulf4nately chooses the hal-
lowed path of repentance, hoping to
reconnect with his patriarchal roots,
leavino his cohorts at the firm to
cook. Rated R. *** (out of four
stars)

— Reviewed by Benyamin Cohen
Sta writer, Atlanta Jewish Times

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