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The Big Short writer-director Adam McKay is preparing to take on the underbelly of financial intrigue from a slightly different angle. Sources confirm that McKay and partner Will Ferrell have picked up the film rights to Jessica Pressler's New York Magazine article, THE HUSTLERS AT SCORES, McKay,
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We don't know their specific grounds for opposing the appointment, but one factor could be the Mooch's manifest lack of gravitas, as evidenced by this revealing glimpse of Scaramucci's view of Washington provided in January by Jessica Pressler: (excerpt of
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editions: "Jessica Pressler (New York) delves into the personal and professional rivalry between Tory and Christopher Burch, former spouses now competing to dominate the fashion world."
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In 2014, Pressler wrote a story about a Stuyvesant High School senior who had allegedly made $ 72 million trading stocks, which was later revealed to be not true.
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The female-focused TV and film company Gloria Sanchez Productions has acquired the rights and is developing an adaptation of the magazine feature by Jessica Pressler.
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called "The Hustlers at Scores", a story about strippers who manipulated money out of their clients. She was nominated for a
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rescinded a job offer made to her for their investigative unit after the student confessed he had "made the whole thing up."
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portraying "Elizabeth", a fictionalized version of Pressler. The film was released in 2019.
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and her father, Michael Pressler, was a professor of English and the director of the
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magazine writer and author. They later divorced, and she is now married to Josh Uhl.
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Ferrell, and Jessica Elbaum will produce under their Gloria Sanchez Productions.
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magazine. Her 2015 article "The Hustlers at Scores", was nominated for a
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In 2018, she wrote a story about New York City high society grifter
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magazine and as a freelancer for celebrity magazines. At
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On December 28, 2015, Pressler published an article for
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Marblehead, Massachusetts
Temple University
Benjamin Wallace
jessicapressler.com
New York
National Magazine Award
Hustlers
Anna Sorokin
Inventing Anna
Netflix
guidance counselor
Swampscott High School
interdisciplinary arts
Shippensburg University
New York
Daily Intel
Philadelphia
Wall Street
Lloyd Blankfein
Robert Benmosche
2008 financial crisis
Lynn Tilton
Anthony Scaramucci
Chris Burch
Tory Burch
Silicon Valley
Bloomberg News
National Magazine Award
Will Ferrell

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