'Client 9': The Framing of a Guilty Man

"Client 9" -- aka The Eliot Spitzer movie -- is definitely worth seeing, even if all it succeeds at is confirming all of your worst suspicions about politics. As far as I can tell, the whole Spitzer scandal would be a complete repeat of Lewinskygate if not for Spitzer's past prosecution of prostitution rings. But even at that, he never went after "johns" -- which is what we learn really happened here -- so you can't help but side with him as you learn he was persecuted by political enemies whose corrupt ways he went after. Sure, he brought it all on himself. But I'm still a lot more comfortable with his being in office patronizing hookers while bringing it on to the likes of Maurice Greenberg (the former AIG chairman), Richard Grasso (the ridiculously overpaid former head of the SEC) and Ken Langone (co-founder of Home Depot and a former director of the New York Stock Exchange), who mysteriously seemed to have intimate knowledge of the governor’s comings and goings because he knows "somebody who was standing in back of him in line" at the post office who saw him buy "$2,800 worth of mail orders to send to the hooker." Yeah, right. A well-crafted film. Bonus points to the hookers interviewed, whose unintentionally hilarious recollections lighten the mood of an otherwise infuriating look at politics in Albany, which more and more seem to be a microcosm of America. (Film information HERE.)