‘The Crime of the Century’: TV Review Daniel Fienberg The Crime of the Century
Ultra-prolific documentarian Alex Gibney really needs to slow down his output. He may be a machine, but I’m but a man incapable of generating five-to-10 Gibney-specific review ledes per year.
Alternatively, ultra-prolific documentarian Alex Gibney really needs to speed up his output. Like seemingly everybody else these days, Gibney is steadliy finding things to take umbrage at, but even at his outrageous current pace, there’s a real risk of even typically thorough Gibney productions feeling like nourishing-but-reheated leftovers.
Welcome to Gibney’s
The Crime of the Century, a four-hour HBO documentary chronicling the deepening morass of the opioid crisis in America. It’s a project of well-earned pique, unfolding with Gibney’s strong sense of cause-and-effect. But this is one of those instances where it’s hard to imagine viewers settling in for four hours of burgeon
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CalPERS likes to think that all that matters is if it can control perceptions in Sacramento. If Dan Walters’ latest column is any indication, CalPERS is losing that battle.
For those of you outside California, Walters has been the most influential commentator in Sacramento for decades. His view skew somewhat conservative, but he regularly calls out politicians on both sides of the aisle.
His latest object of disfavor is the CalPERS-sponsored bill AB 386, which he lambasted forcefully in his latest column, Pending Bill Opens Door to CalPERS Corruption. Walters criticizes the Assembly Judiciary Committee, which just passed the bill with no discussion at all.
(1) Walter Funk
US Prosecutor Thomas Dodd cross examined Walter Funk, the Minister of Economics, also known as the “Banker of Gold Teeth” for his role in managing Nazi plunder. In
Letters from Nuremberg, Christopher Dodd recounts an exchange during interrogations between Thomas Dodd and Funk.
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Funk: Business with the SS? I have never done that.
Dodd: Yes, sir. Business with the SS. Are you sure about that? I ask you again, sir. When did you start doing business with the SS?”
Funk admitted that he had learned of SS deposits but assumed they were routine. He said he was aware that SS had taken gold watches off concentration camp prisoners and that all Germans were ordered to turn in their gold coins. This, he argued, would have been the essence of what was brought into the vaults.