![]() ![]() In Factory Girl, Sienna Miller re-created Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick. ![]() ![]() His 1991 documentary, Hearts of Darkness, about the making of Apocalypse Now, is a classic view of a tortured creative process and the crazy extremes of moviemaking. Casino Jack, unexpectedly his last film, reflects a career-long passion: affectionate curiosity about the oddities of real-life people, often artists. Droll and straight-faced, Spacey lets us see Abramoff's absurdities: an observant Jew, Abramoff reminds an interfaith Bible-study group, "In Biblical times, taxes never rose above 20 percent"-the old "if it was good enough for Moses" economic plan. The film follows Abramoff's glib, high-energy act as he takes parties of congressmen on sunny vacations and persuades them that sweatshops in the Mariana Islands are good for the American economy. Jack Abramoff: former superpowered lobbyist, current felon who bilked Indian tribes and bribed public officials, and…clown? George Hickenlooper's fact-based satire, starring Kevin Spacey and his ever-sharp comic timing, offers an antic version of the wheeler-dealer whose ambition and blinkered morality were close to caricature all along. ![]()
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