The New York Observer reports that Oscar winning filmmaker Alex Gibney is working on a documentary about Eliot Spitzer, the New York governor who was forced to resign after his predilection for semi-pricey hookers was revealed last month. Gibney is collaborating with Peter Elkind, who wrote the book that inspired Gibney’s Enron doc The Smartest Guys in the Room, to produce a book and a movie simultaneously. Is the public really really so hungry for more information about this story, after so many weeks of exhaustive cable news coverage and loosely-related hooker tie ins across the infotainment spectrum? Is there anything left to say that wasn’t summed up by the New York Magazine cover at right?
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I can only speak for the microscopic sliver of the public known as ‘me’, but to answer your question, no the I’m not hungry for more of this nonsense. I was full-to-vomiting by day 2 of the 24-hour news cycle.
If you want to look at it in the broader context of the sexual whatevers of the United States, then fine, but spare me the scandal mongering. Leave it to TMZ.
And no, I’m not exactly sure what I mean by “sexual whatevers”.