The High Cost Of Greed (Enron scandal now on DVD)

[ProSense]

The High Cost Of Greed

Sunday, January 15, 2006; Page Y14

Director Alex Gibney's eye-opening documentary on the fall of Enron provides a shocking look at one of the biggest corporate scandals in American business history.

The film, adapted from a best-selling book, offers insider accounts of misdeeds within what was one of the largest corporations in the country.


A highlight of the film -- and perhaps the biggest blood-boiler of them all -- is how Gibney juxtaposes the tragedy of a doomed company and its 20,000 employees with the blind ambition and greed of executives Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling.

Viewers also see the effect of Enron's influence on major accounting firms, California politics and even the presidency.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/11/AR2006011101938.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/television

Have they been sentenced? And when does Bush's impeachment hearing begin?

[glitch]

1. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - I have been waiting for this dvd

for a long time. Looks like next week is going to be a good one for video, what with Monday Al Gore on Cspan and Tuesday my video store should have this dvd waiting for me (yea, I've been bugging them).
Yay!

[prole_for_peace]

2. just added it to my blockbuster online queue.

can't wait

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

3. I hadn't heard of this until Emma Thompson named it her best film of 2005

Looks really, really good.