Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties or carting naïve ambition to the New York City corporate world in The Secret of My Success, Fox has a wonderful energy and comic timing that is perfect for conveying yuppie angst. Fox! Whether perfectly portraying business-minded Alex P. You know who was stellar at playing the likable ‘80s professional? Michael J. On a lighter note, today’s Movie Moment is brought to you by The Secret of My Success, which gives a screwball comedy twist to the corporate ladder climb. He notes that “Eighties yuppies saw their ruthless competitive work ethic and their consumptive materialism as hedges and buffers against an increasingly unstable terrorist- and nuclear- and deficit-threatened world.” Yep, there’s more to these attractive promotion-seekers than meets the eye… Was it simply greed? Palmer doesn’t think so. Palmer 1980s YuppiesĬlimbing the corporate ladder was the dream of many young professionals in the 1980s.
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