WHAT IT'S ABOUT: In 2004, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford to start a Silicon Valley company, Theranos, that promised to revolutionize blood testing. She assembled a superstar board, and got nearly $1 billion in backing. It was also a massive fraud. This Alex Gibney ("Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief") film relies on footage and interviews, including the Wall Street Journal's John Carreyrou, who broke open the scandal.
MY SAY: "There are only two or three human stories," Willa Cather once famously observed, "and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they never happened before." Quibbling only with her arithmetic _ there could be as many as four or five, after all _ the bard of the Great Plains was onto something, as recent events would corroborate:
The college admissions scandal ... the Fyre Festival ... Jussie Smollett (OK, allegedly).
