Holed up in a mansion in north Toronto, awaiting criminal trial in the US and the return of his Canadian citizenship, Conrad Black is unlikely to make his thoughts known about the first movie version of his life, a made-for-TV docudrama starring Albert Schultz and Lara Flynn Boyle (right) that airs across Canada on Monday evening. But we can guess them.
The martyr in him would be pleased by the vaguely sympathetic treatment of his character. The snob in him would be appalled by the film's B-rate script and production values.
After all, Lord Black of Crossharbour, the former owner of the Daily Telegraph, one-time consort to Lady Thatcher and Henry Kissinger, is a man of fine taste and distinction. If stories of hubris, miscalculation and alleged fraud are to be made, he 
