releases on November 5th limited: “I never asked if a case was big or small, just right or wrong,” Spitzer narrates in this documentary regarding his thoughts on why he went after corporate bad guys. This is the story of the lies and eventual exposure of the talented New York State Governor brought down by sexual scandal. Which in itself is ironic…You can’t knock/prosecute prostitution and then use it for yourself. Such a waste of a talented man, Spitzer was to be the first Jewish President. He had a gorgeous wife, and three stunning teenage daughters not much younger than the (then) twenty-two year Ashley Dupree who took down his world. He was eight years Attorney General and one year as governor when his wife stood by him at the podium the day he resigned. And nobody expected this promising politician to go down because of three little words: The Emperor’s Club. In his own defense he says “This goes way back to Greek Mythology” and in a way he’s absolutely right. At what point will Americans start overlooking the private life of our public figures. So long as he’s cutting my taxes and cleaning up crime, I don’t care what he does in his off-hours. He wanted to use laws to change the world, change Wall Street and stop environmental pollution. Like everybody else in scandal, he disappeared for a while (although I ran into him at a recent NY book party) until he now resurfaces on CNN, hosting a show that instantly nose-dived in the ratings. The problem with this film is that it doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know except hell-o!…don’t hire hookers if you’re in public office. They’ll never learn. One tiara
