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Viewers of Alex Gibney's film about Enron's collapse will not emerge from it with a comprehensive understanding of all the scams that the company's officers employed to drive the stock so high in the 1990s. Pawing through the paperwork is not what documentaries do best. This one, for instance, achieves its power by showing us the faces of Enron's leadership back when its genius was unquestioned...
...names in this up-to-date Ponzi scheme--Kenneth Lay, Jeff Skilling and Andrew Fastow, right--declined, perhaps understandably, to grant Gibney formal interviews, but not to worry: there's plenty of old video, and in it they are completely, utterly plausible, nicely turned out, easy in manner, born to lead mighty enterprises into uncharted territory...
...Gibney is fond of vertigo-inducing panoramic sweeps that show off his crane. Though they might be part of the mandatory artistic cinematography implicit in films of this sort, they just take up cinematic space...
...played, raged and sometimes whacked balls at the officials. John McEnroe has a new autobiography, You Cannot Be Serious (Putnam), and talks with TIME's Frank Gibney about how to fix men's tennis, why he has become a better husband and how he sometimes thinks about going into politics. Mayor...
...Frank Gibney...