I'm a natural person to write about a voyeur because I was a writer. I'm a voyeur myself.

The subject, the voyeur of the voyeur's motel, is one Gerald Fuse. He owned a motel close to Denver,

and he got in touch with Talies in around 1980 towards the end of the period of writing and reporting,

thy neighbor's wife. And he said to Tiles, I have some

information that I think might be useful for your project. See, I grew up in a sexually repressed

household. We're never allowed to talk or think about sex. And this has shaped me in some unusual

ways. I've bought a motel near Denver for the purpose of being a voyeur.

I've turned the attic of this motel into this observation deck where I can peer into any one of the 21 rooms.

And every night I look and see what's happening in these rooms and I make extensive notes,

extensive documentation about every encounter, and I've been doing

this for over 10 years. And Talese, like any normal and empathetic person, reads this and says,

this is interesting. I want to learn more about this. So for seemingly 30 years, he was courting

Gerald Fuse to tell his story on the record,

because he believes that the only point of reporting something is if you put the person's

actual name on it.

If it's not an actual name, you might as well be writing fiction.

Over this time, he was just slowly, carefully seducing Gerald Fuzze, trying to get him comfortable, using every journalist trick in the book to make him want to tell his story on the record.

So finally, he tells the story on the record.

It becomes first a New Yorker cover story and then a book, which, by the way, just in doing a little cursory research today, I saw that the book was

actually optioned by Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendez to turn into a film. And they decided

not to do it, I believe, because they found out that this documentary, which we watched, was in

production. You know what I think? I think that movie would have been canceled regardless,

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