http://www.observer.com/node/36137
OUCH
Worn down, he spent two years bouncing among group houses of friends in Orlando, on the fringes of college campuses. He stayed in at night and read business books.
The bathrobe was a gift from his grandmother; on the left breast pocket is an embroidered âTimmy.â
After college he moved to Soho, where he spent six months partying until dawn and trying to raise $50 million for his hedge fund. He developed a taste for the finer things and a $500-a-week âsushi habit,â but came up roughly $50 million short.
In upcoming episodes, viewers will learn that Mr. Sykesâ mother still does his laundry, that heâs not much of a clotheshorse, that he works out on a rowing machine in his apartment, that he has a library stocked with 600 business books, and that he recently threw a rooftop party for all his friends and encouraged them to tell childhood stories about him to the Wall Street Warriors cameraman.
Mr. Sykes is the star of Wall Street Warriors, a documentary series premiering Oct. 22 on INHD, a little-seen high-definition cable network targeted at the sort of people who, like Mr. Sykes, keep HDTVâs in their $4,200-a-month apartments downtown. (Our hero also keeps a friend in his apartment, a younger banker who cooks, cleans, pays him $1,000 a month in rent and whom he playfully calls âthe butler.â) There are 21 million American homes with high-definition televisions, if not also with butlers.