But watching Marion Barry finally
get censured and stripped of his committee assignments, I couldn't help but think that the guy would make decent biopic material. I tend to get exhausted by the hagiographic nature of such projects (hell,
they made Frank Lucas look kind of warm and fuzzy by the end). We don't have enough great self-deluding figures out there on film. And this guy makes
Catch Me If You Can look kind of like small beer. There are actual consequences for Barry's ridiculousness.