The paper also trots out Anthony Weiner, lest anyone forget that Spitzer also had a sex scandal: «Weiner's
weird psychosexual thrill from public humiliation seems honest in comparison
to Spitzer, whose version of «contrition» gives off a distinctly Charlie
Sheen vibe.»
Both are drawn
to the head gangster of South Boston, played by Jack Nicholson (in a performance that starts restrained and becomes
weirder and more «Jack» as the film's sense of paranoid hysteria increases), and both have legit cops as potential father figures: DiCaprio has the ideal good father in Martin
Sheen, Damon has amoral (and hilarious) company man Alec Baldwin, in a less frightening variation on his great Glengarry Glen Ross performance.