The Hoax
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| Initial release | USA |
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| Directors | Lasse Hallström |
| Box office | 11. 77 million USD |
| Story by | Clifford Irving |
| Screenplay | Clifford Irving |
| William Wheeler | |
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| ID | 973018 |
About The Hoax
In the early 1970s, author Clifford Irving (Richard Gere), with accomplice Richard Suskind (Alfred Molina), attempts to pull off one of the greatest media scams of the century. He writes a fake biography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, claiming that Hughes authorized it, and sells the book to publishing giant McGraw-Hill.
Bibby Stockholm: Hoax listing for asylum barge on travel website
... The Hoax listing on the website described the Bibby Stockholm as having a garden and offering views of Dorset s Jurassic coast...
Fan outrage at Susan Meachen, the romance novelist accused of faking her death
... After news of The Hoax went viral, someone claiming to be Ms Meachen told writer Michael Gallagher that she felt the only way to find relief from the online bullying she said she experienced, was to fake her own death...
Victor Lewis-Smith: Journalist and satirist dies aged 65
...By Jasmine AnderssonBBC NewsWriter, broadcaster and satirist Victor Lewis-Smith - known as a TV critic and for The Hoax phone calls he made to the likes of Princess Diana - has died aged 65 after a short illness...
Sherri Papini: US woman who staged her own disappearance sentenced to 18 months
... In a sentencing memo, Papini s lawyer William Portanova blamed The Hoax on her " painful early years [that] twisted and froze her in myriad ways"...
Operation Mincemeat: The Welsh drifter who helped end WW2
... With Mr Michael kept in a mortuary refrigerator, Cholmondeley and Montagu got to work on the details they were certain would make The Hoax more believable to the Germans...
Video clip of hoax call with UK minister Ben Wallace published
... Mr Wallace revealed The Hoax last week, saying he had been targeted by an " imposter" posing as the Ukrainian PM...
UK blames Russia for hoax calls to cabinet ministers
... On Monday, Boris Johnson s spokesman told reporters that " the Russian state was responsible for The Hoax telephone calls made to UK ministers last week"...
Man posing as Ukraine PM spoke to defence secretary Ben Wallace
... A Ministry of Defence source said the inquiry was looking into " how this was able to happen" but gave no details of what Mr Wallace may have told The Hoax caller, or who made the call...
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