07-31-2010, 08:23 AM
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Jersey Shore cast ring Wall Street's opening bell
Cast members of MTV's Jersey Shore ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange Photograph: Richard Drew/AP
You could cut the anticipation with a meat cleaver this morning as traders on the New York Stock Exchange paused to watch a well-bronzed crew ringing the market's opening bell - the cast of the reality television show Jersey Shore.
For the uninitiated, Jersey Shore has become a cultural phenomenon since hitting screens on MTV last year. It follows the adventures of eight real-life Italian-American sunseekers spending the summer in a New Jersey beach house. It makes Big Brother look like Dostoyevsky.
Anway, the stock exchange enjoyed one of its most crowded days in years as Michael "the situation" Sorrentino, Pauly "DJ Pauly D" Del Vecchio, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, Jenni "J-Woww" Farley and friends grinned from ear to ear over the trading floor.
"It was like PT Barnum's freak show was in town," Benedict Willis, director of floor operations at Sunrise Securities, told MSNBC.
The Jersey Shore cast were on Wall Street courtesy of MTV's NYSE-listed owner, Viacom, to mark the debut of their second series in the US this week. They didn't hang around for a chat, though. On the business channel CNBC, anchor Mark Haines complained: "We often interview the ringers of the opening bell, but the Jersey Shore's handlers are not allowing them to talk. They're allowed to stand and smile, but not to talk."
Wouldn't it have been fun to hear Snooki's thoughts on subprime mortgage-related derivatives?
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