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Spitzer's Tale of Redemption

The new film about Eliot Spitzer reveals the disgraced New York governor’s emotional turmoil, Ashley Dupre’s one-night stand, and how he talked politics with his favorite call girl.

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New York’s disgraced former governor—the subject of documentary director Alex Gibney’s work in progress, Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film—didn’t show up, as was rumored he might, for Saturday night’s Tribeca Film Festival screening.

But he should have.

He probably would have received a standing ovation from the A-list audience of New Yorkers, which...

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