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| John Belushi |
Don Pollard, LSTA Chair and global head of the syndicated loan group at Credit Suisse First Boston, had the audience in either stitches or embarrassment with mock video footage of market players. Steve Hickey, head of bank loan sales and trading at Goldman Sachs was congratulated by Pollard for being one of 99 new partners at the firm, and then was shown as an anchorman from Bruce Almighty, jabbering insanely. Oak Hill's Scott Krase was shown responding to Hickey's comments with a scene from Billy Madison. "Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it," the character said. Allison Taylor, executive director of the LSTA was described as a tactful diplomat, before a scene of a woman screaming a series of expletives in a boardroom. CSFB bankers were not immune. After attempting to rid the market of assignment fees, and being told to give up by two large banks that shall not be named, CSFB par trader Barry Zamore was shown as John Belushi's character in Animal House. "Nothing is over until we decide it is," Belushi shouts, stirring no one in the room to follow him. Finally CSFB's Howie Shams was congratulated for his second-lien education initiatives, as a scene of drooling students from Ferris Bueller's Day Off played.