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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron is a book by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, first published in 2003 by Portfolio Trade. In 2005, it was adapted into a documentary film, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. McLean and Elkind worked on the book when they both were Fortune senior writers.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a 2005 American documentary film based on the best-selling 2003 book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, who are credited as writers of the film alongside the director, Alex Gibney.
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HBO announced in December 2014 that Alex Gibney, an Oscar-winning director who made Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005), Taxi to the Dark Side, (2007) and The Armstrong Lie (2013), was directing a film based on the book, to be released at the 2015 Sundance Festival. It was the first time that HBO had tackled Scientology directly, though ...
American electrochemical engineer Libb Thims took an unorthodox approach when he set out to rank the smartest people of all time. Thims first compiled a list of people with IQ scores over 200 as a ...
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Conspiracy of Fools tells the story of the 2001 collapse of Enron.Enron's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Andrew Fastow is depicted as voraciously greedy, using front corporations and partnerships, paying himself "management" and "consultant" fees as if he were an outsider, all while cooking Enron's books to show fictitious profits.
Gibney was born in New York City, the son of Harriet (Harvey) and journalist Frank Gibney. [4] [5] His stepfather was the Rev. William Sloane Coffin.After attending Pomfret School, Gibney earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University and later attended the UCLA Film School.