{"id":1917,"date":"2011-05-23T22:23:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T02:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2011-06-03T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T16:22:21","slug":"disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/2011\/05\/23\/disgrace\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgrace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Silda Wall Spitzer and Eliot Spitzer in CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the news of the indictment of International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn <\/a>on charges of sex crimes against a hotel maid in New York, you may wonder why a wealthy and powerful man practically considered to be a front-runner for president of a world power (France) would (if indeed guilty) do something so unacceptable and self-destructive.<\/p>\n

Some fragment of the answer having to do with the intoxication of power and fame can be glimpsed from a truly excellent documentary called Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. It tells the story of how former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer got caught<\/a> using an agency to book appointments with thousands-of-dollars-an-hour call girls.<\/p>\n

Spitzer was famous for taking on the banks and speculators in Wall Street, and had been touted as a possible democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency. He didn\u2019t commit the kind of crime Strauss-Kahn is accused of, but he fell from high and hit the ground hard.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The film, directed by Alex Gibney<\/a>, is a model of documentary filmmaking.<\/strong> Not of the unpredictable fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind, but on the contrary, very carefully planned and executed. The mix of sex of politics is explosive, the characters, including Spitzer himself, hookers, madams and Wall Street sharks \u2013 his powerful enemies who helped get him caught -are fascinating.<\/p>\n

Highly recommended!<\/p>\n

Thanks to Tobi Elliott<\/a> for help with this blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the news of the indictment of International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn on charges of sex crimes against a hotel maid in New York, you may wonder why a wealthy and powerful man practically considered to be a front-runner for president of a world power (France) would (if indeed guilty) do something so … Continue reading Disgrace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,532,3],"tags":[522,524,523,521,519,518,520],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary-debates","category-english","category-film-review","category-film","tag-alex-gibney","tag-call-girls","tag-client-9","tag-client-9-the-rise-and-fall-of-eliot-spitzer","tag-dominique-strauss-kahn","tag-eliot-spitzer","tag-sex-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}