**_Unexpectedly emotional, with a towering central performance_** > _I had never known anything but up in my career, had never received even one of those formatted no-thank-you slips that successful writers look back upon with triumphant jocularity. And I regarded with pity and disdain the short-sleeved wage slaves who worked in offices. I had no reason to believe life would get anything but better. I had had no experience failing_. - Lee Israel; _Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger_ (2008) Directed by Marielle Heller, with a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener (who was...