The Hollywood Reporter says: “CNN puts Skype in picture.”

But it’s more like Skype put vacationing CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin into the picture on the hot-hot-hot Eliot Spitzer scandal.

Unless you’ve been dozing on a hammock in Maui, you'll know that Spitzer, who was known as “Mr. Clean” for tacking on corruption on Wall Street and the mean streets of New York, got caught on a wiretap relating to his illicit activities with a prostitution ring. Spitzer stepped down as governor of the “Empire State.”

Now the story behind the story.

Toobin, who attended Havahd Law with Spitzer, wanted a piece of the action. But as it happens, he was that guy dozing on Maui.

CNN couldn’t get a video feed. And the suits at CNN didn’t want to wreck Toobin's vacation and have him leave his post on the hammock to go over to Honolulu.

Some CNN technicians who had been itching to try out a Skype feed finally got their chance.

The Hollywood Reporter said: “Using a laptop computer and webcam borrowed from the business center of the hotel where he and his family were staying, Toobin set up a makeshift studio overlooking poolside.”

Skype came through like a champ.

CNN U.S. President Jon Klein told the Hollywood Reporter Skype will help the news org “cover the news in more places and less expensive than ever before. The end result is more information for the viewers.”