Talk:The Hoax

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Contents 1 Budget 2 Additional sources to incorporate 3 Fair use rationale for Image:The Hoax film poster.jpg 4 Nixon and watergate

[edit] Budget

It seems over estimated, especially consider the film hasn't even grossed 10 million

[edit] Additional sources to incorporate

As the film has had some interesting reviews, we should look into incorporating more actual critical content than a single NYT review. These are good for material:

• In 'The Hoax,' Richard Gere makes Clifford Irving believable" - Baltimore Sun (April 6, 2007)
• "Real Time With Clifford Irving" - LA Weekly (April 4, 2007)
• "Fact and fiction still blurred with Clifford Irving, screenwriter says" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 6, 2007)

And for background material:

• The Fabulous Hoax of Clifford Irving - Time magazine (originally published Feb. 21, 1972)
• "A Wild Idea" - CrimeLibrary.com

--Leflyman^Talk 02:47, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:The Hoax film poster.jpg

Image:The Hoax film poster.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 05:08, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nixon and watergate

Here are some exerpts:

LA Times Film revives notoriety for author Irving April 6, 2007

Author Clifford Irving sounded wistful, even proud, this week as he recalled his wild adventures of the early 1970s, when he infamously duped his publishers at McGraw-Hill, the media, handwriting analysts and, as legend has it, President Nixon and the congressman who later investigated Watergate, into believing that the reclusive Howard Hughes had dictated his memoirs to him.

Despite all his issues with the movie, there is one aspect of it that he absolutely loves: its suggestion that his research on Hughes uncovered evidence of a loan from Hughes to Nixon's brother, inspiring the president to dispatch burglars to Watergate to find out whether the Democrats knew about it. In reality, Irving said, he didn't realize the nature of the information he'd uncovered. That is, until members of the Watergate investigation team visited Irving in prison to question him about it.

"I get a big kick out of that," Irving said. "If I brought down the Nixon White House ... hooray! Just tell me how to do it today."

Book exerpt [1]

Review from no name site:

The suggestion here is that Clifford Irving's (Richard Gere) proposed book on Howard Hughes memoires revealed secrets of Hughes' payoffs to Nixon, the exposure of which would prove harmful to the White House. Fears of it provoked the burglary of Democratic headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. in order to learn if they had the book or any other evidence that could embarrass the president.

But the suggestion is plausible only because the true purpose of the Watergate break-in has never been revealed, so it's a blank slate for a myriad of suppositions.[2]

Justice: The Memoirs of Attorney General Richard Kleindienst - Page 214 by Richard G. Kleindienst

Numerous surmises have been advanced as to the reason for Watergate. Nobody, I think, really knows the whole story...

Citizen Hughes:The Power, The Money and The Madness, by Michael Drosin, page 421

But it was not Bebe or his brother, not Anderson or the IRS, not Maheu or Bennett or Greenspun who triggered the final series of events that led to Nixon's downfall. It was Clifford Irving.

Travb (talk) 03:06, 9 October 2007 (UTC)