But leave it to Andy Borowitz to get it just right:<\/a><\/p>\n Ha, that’s perfect.<\/em><\/p>\n Diana Olson from IDSA emailed me “Someone should make a movie …”, which is of course exactly right. What a script: You have the immigrant parent upbringing, the brilliant youth getting into an elite Manhattan high school, then dropping out and starting his “work” on Wall Street at age 20. So far so good.<\/p>\n Then the drug-pricing scandals, his utter refusal to acknowledge wrongdoing, the\u00a0all-too public face (with\u00a0a very recognizable smirk) during the controversy, the ubiquitous social media presence, that\u00a0Wu-Tang Clan album purchase — and now this arrest! Who knows what’s next!<\/p>\n Let the record show that Joel Gallant, in this OFID podcast,<\/a> was asked “In 10 years, where is Martin Shkreli?” and he presciently responded:<\/p>\n I\u2019d say he\u2019s either going to be in prison<\/strong> or he\u2019s doing a short sale where he\u2019s going to make\u00a0huge profits off the decline in stock prices of his company and he\u2019ll be on a yacht in the\u00a0Mediterranean somewhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Right now, odds favor the former.<\/p>\n His\u00a0rise and fall story would be gold, one I’m sure Hollywood will portray\u00a0with great subtlety.\u00a0It would certainly have\u00a0the opposite message of Woody Allen’s later movies, which exist in a\u00a0random, mostly unjust universe where bad guys often seem to get away with murder. Literally.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n So who plays Shkreli in the movie about his life? I vote Bill Hader\u00a0from Trainwreck — <\/em>check him out\u00a0around 1’30” into the clip below, the likeness is truly extraordinary.<\/p>\n [youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2MxnhBPoIx4&w=560&h=315]<\/p>\n And Amy, if you still need a writer, I’m still<\/em> available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Several\u00a0words swiftly come to mind\u00a0when hearing the news that Turing’s Martin Shkreli was arrested for security fraud. Karma. Just desserts. Kismet. Schadenfreude. Inevitable. But leave it to Andy Borowitz to get it just right: Ha, that’s perfect. Diana Olson from IDSA emailed me “Someone should make a movie …”, which is of course exactly right. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[1076,936],"class_list":["post-7969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-policy","tag-pyrimethamine","tag-toxoplasmosis"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"shkreli](\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/shkreli-arrest.jpg\")
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