'White-collar criminal' Matt Damon does VeniceHollywood golden boy Matt Damon does a number on the world of white-collar crime white-collar crime, term coined by Edward Sutherland for nonviolent crimes committed by corporations or individuals such as office workers or sales personnel (see white-collar workers) in the course of their business activities. in Steven Soderbergh's "Informant!" screening out of competition Monday at the Venice film festival. Based on a non-fiction novel by Kurt Eichenwald, the comic thriller tracks Mark Whitacre's machinations as a whistle-blower whis·tle·blow·er or whis·tle-blow·er or whistle blower n. One who reveals wrongdoing within an organization to the public or to those in positions of authority: "The Pentagon's most famous whistleblower is . . with "issues" that include looking after number one. The rollicking rol·lick·ing adj. Carefree and high-spirited; boisterous: a rollicking celebration. rol tale goes into orbit, touching down in Tokyo, Paris, Mexico City and Hawaii, as Whitacre, who turns out to be bi-polar, "cooperates" with the FBI to expose lucrative price-fixing by the US agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland The Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM), is a conglomeration based in Decatur, Illinois. ADMoperates more than 270 plants worldwide, where cereal grains and oilseeds are processed into numerous products used in food, beverage, nutraceutical, industrial and animal feed . "When I read the book I thought of Matt because Whitacre had a very American, very optimistic attitude and he was obviously someone whom the people he worked with found very likeable like·a·ble adj. Variant of likable. Adj. 1. likeable - (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; "the sympathetic characters in the play" likable, appealing, sympathetic ," Soderbergh told reporters. Soderbergh was nominated for an Academy Award for another whistle-blower flick, "Erin Brockovich" starring Julia Roberts, in 2000, the same year he won an Oscar for "Traffic". To get into character, Damon tucked into some serious food, gaining some 15 kilos (35 pounds). "It was very, very easy to gain the weight," he said. "It was very, very fun, probably the funnest time I had working, because I didn't have to go to the gym after work and I just ate everything I could see." 
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