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Vanity Fair: Interview With Barry Levinson
“…he was struck by a different dimension of the catastrophic crime: the Shakespearean tragedy of a father’s greed destroying his own sons.”
Read the full interview here.
Salon Review
“Levinson trains the film’s focus on the intimacy of Madoff’s betrayal. Scene after scene bristles with close-ups of the people closest to Madoff as they struggle to respond truthfully to questions for which they have no solid answers…”
Read the full review here.
The Atlantic Review
” … {the film] doesn’t try to either understand or humanize Madoff, but all the same it manages to be an intimate, unsettling portrait of a borderline sociopath.”
Read the full review here.
Boston Globe Review
In those bleak scenes (in which Henriques plays herself), you sense that he has a phenomenal sense of denial
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Huffington Post Review
“Could Robert De Niro top an already amazing career? By Thursday, another brilliant performance premiered at MoMA: As Bernie Madoff in the HBO movie, The Wizard of Lies, he is the consummate con artist.”
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Orlando Sentinel Review
He and De Niro never sentimentalize Madoff, who talks matter-of-factly about making up investments, then complains that the people he hoodwinked were greedy.
Read the full review here.
W Magazine “Wizard of Lies” Review
Jenny Comita in W Magazine:
“Let me ask you a question,” Madoff says to Henriques, who scored the first jailhouse sit-down with Madoff and plays herself onscreen. “Do you think I’m a sociopath?” Does he really need to ask?
Henriques named winner of SABEW’s distinguished achievement award
“We could think of no one who meets this criteria more than Diana,” said Kevin Noblet, chair of the selection committee. “Her investigative reporting sets a high standard for all of us in terms of rigor and relevance. And she has been so generous to those who ask her help to become better professionals.”
Read full story here.
23rd Annual ACFE Fraud Conference & Exhibition: Interview
“It is essential that all of us, especially fraud fighters, understand how ordinary a Ponzi schemer’s personality can seem. Because we only define them as Ponzi schemers in hindsight, it is very hard for us to put ourselves back into the pre-revelation mindset to appreciate what made these characters so appealing. A scholar whose work I admire described a Ponzi schemer as someone who can perfectly impersonate an honest person.”
Read full interview.
University of New England Appearance
The 5th Annual Paul D. Merrill Business Ethics Lecture, hosted by the University of New England’s Business and Communications Department, featured Diana B. Henriques, author of the best-selling The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust.
Full article here.
Video of lecture (also on page linked above):