Podcasts about Clifford Irving

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Orson Welles made F for Fake in the early seventies, while still bobbing in the wake of a Pauline Kael essay accusing him of being cinema's greatest fraud. Ostensibly a documentary on the famous art forger Elmyr de Hory and his biographer Clifford Irving (a talented faker in his own right), the film blurs the line between fact and fiction in an effort to explore art's weird entanglement with illusion, magic, and ultimately, the search for truth. This is a film unlike any other, and it is arguably Welles's most important contribution to the evolution and theory of film aesthetics. Join the Weirdosphere online learning community by enrolling in Phil and J.F.'s inaugural course, THE BEAUTY AND THE HORROR (www.weirdosphere.org), starting June 20th. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies). Buy the Weird Studies soundtrack, volumes 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2), on Pierre-Yves Martel's Bandcamp (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com) page. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! RERERENCES Orson Welles, F for Fake (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072962/) Gilles Deleuze Cinema 2 (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780816616770) Elmyr de Hory, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmyr_de_Hory) art forger Clifford Irving, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Irving) American writer Howard Hughes, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes) American aerospace engineer David Thomson, Biographical Dictionary of Film (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/178394/the-new-biographical-dictionary-of-film-by-david-thomson/) David Thomson, Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780679772835) Pauline Kael, [Raising Kane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaisingKane)_ “War of the Worlds” radio drama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)) The Farm Podcast, “Horror Hosts, Films & Other Strange Realities w/ David Metcalfe, Conspirinormal & Recluse” (https://shows.acast.com/exclusive-subscribers-shows/episodes/horror-hosts-films-other-strange-realities-w-david-metcalfe-) Orson Welles - Interview with Michael Parkinson (BBC 1974) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dAGcorF1Vo&ab_channel=FilmKunst) Geoffrey Cornelius, Cornelius (https://mythcosmologysacred.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/G.-Cornelius-Chicane.pdf) Victoria Nelson, Secret Life of Puppets (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780674012448) Lionel Snell, My Years of Magical Thinking (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780904311242) Sokal affair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair), hoax Werner Herzog, “Minnesota Declaration” (https://designmanifestos.org/werner-herzog-the-minnesota-declaration/)

Ten years ago, on a bit of a whim, I invited bassist Will Lee to come over to my home studio in Brooklyn to do an interview with me for a new project I was starting: a podcast. A year or two earlier, my friend Michael Fusco-Straub had turned me on to Marc Maron's WTF podcast, and I was totally hooked on the concept of casual long form interviews among peers. At the time Maron spoke almost exclusively to comics, and I thought there might be a space for something similar but focused on music. Although I didn't have any real experience as a journalist or a broadcaster, I knew I could do it. In fact, maybe more than anything else I've ever done professionally, it was the most natural decision I can ever remember making.  But the format was a bit of a mystery. Who was I supposed to be? An expert on music? A friend of my guests? I thought maybe we would perform together. Or maybe they would demonstrate something. Or maybe it would be a document of the local scene in New York - in the early episodes I asked my guests “where are you coming from today” and “where are you going after this”. Actually, those are pretty good questions. Maybe I should go back to asking them again.  I spent a month futzing with my Will Lee interview, carefully editing each pause and “um”, working and reworking the introduction. I designed a crude logo based on a Google Earth image of my house in Park Slope, and built a website on Squarespace.  I posted the episode and sent an email to my friends to explain the new project. I wrote:  Since moving to New York nine years ago, I have tossed around the idea of conducting informal interviews with musicians in my studio when they come in to record. Over the years so many great players and singers have shared tremendous insights and history with me, and it seemed like such a missed opportunity not to record it. Of course, everything changes when the “red light” is on, so the question for me became how to maintain that same level of spontaneity and candor in a somewhat more formal setting. Then I sat nervously with a pit in my stomach, not knowing what I had just done. Would anyone like it? Would anyone care? Was I any good at it?  Ten years and 268 episodes later, I continue to refine, to tweak and futz, to agonize and scramble to the finish line every time. As I write these words it is 12:30am, and I sit in my darkened studio - essentially an extension of my bedroom - with my wife, Amanda asleep just a few feet away, and our daughter asleep in the next room. That is to say that The Third Story has become an extension not only of my life, but of my entire household. Fortunately the initial nausea has passed but it has been replaced by a constant sense of urgency to get the next episode finished.  I have also developed a style, an unstructured but intentional approach to talking to people, in search of a narrative thread in each journey, an attempt to get somewhere together. Sometimes it's more technical, sometimes it's more esoteric, sometimes it's personal. There is no real theme to the show, and there is no real dogma. If it's interesting to me, the hope is that it will be interesting to others too.  The good news about an ongoing show like this one is that there's always another episode to make, so you can never get too precious about any of them because there will be more. The bad news is the same as the good news: no matter how much time you spend on one episode, or how good it was, you still have to make another one, and you're probably already behind schedule. The project has become a way of moving through both space and time for me. It provides a kind of structure when I travel - nearly everywhere I have gone over the last decade, I have returned home with at least one interview.  Whether talking to Gabriela Quintero in Mexico, Jorge Drexler in Spain, Madeleine Peyroux in Paris, Butch Vig in Los Angeles, Howard Levy in Chicago, David Garibaldi in Oakland, David Maraniss in Madison, or Jack Stratton in Cleveland, the interviews have provided purpose to my movement through the world.  I have traveled specifically to cover jazz festivals like Copenhagen, Newport, Montreal and Umbria, and chronicled my own tours too. I have used the platform to mark the passage of time and significant events along the way. From The 2016 and 2020 Elections to the Covid outbreak, from my 45th birthday to my father's 80th, from the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris to memorializing lost friends like Tommy LiPuma, Clyde Stubblefield, Tim Luntzel or Richie Cole.  I have captured both first and final conversations with some remarkable people. I did the first long form interview with Jacob Collier in his house in London in 2014, and the last long form interview with Creed Taylor in his New York apartment 2015. Interviews with Peter Straub, Howard Becker, Clifford Irving, George Wein and Al Schmitt now live on as part of their legacies.  While The Third Story has never become what you might call “popular” it has become kind of a cult show. I continue to be astounded when I meet someone who knows the show. It happens more often than I expect, and I have made more than a few real meaningful friendships that way too.  When several years ago I was invited to publish my episodes on All About Jazz, I knew I was making credible content. When in 2022 I was asked to partner with WBGO Studios, it was an acknowledgement that I was on the right path, and when we won a Signal Award in 2023 I was further encouraged.  By the way, my logo was eventually redesigned by a real graphic designer, Michael Fusco-Straub (the same guy who turned me on to Marc Maron to begin with). Last month, on another whim, I called Will Lee again to see if he would like to meet up for a reunion and to help me celebrate my tenth anniversary. When I first talked to Will for episode one, he was still performing nightly on The Late Show with David Letterman and we talked about his career as one of the most recorded bassists in history, his early education, playing on Letterman, his solo projects… the kind of general overview conversation that has come to loosely define what I do here. This time was more casual and more conversational. We sat on the couch in his Manhattan apartment and traded quips, and I managed to gently extract some new information from him.  Then I asked my wife, Amanda, to join me to help process this anniversary in more domestic terms: how does it look and feel to live with someone who is constantly in the process of mining another life story for content and making podcast episodes? What are the similarities between her career as a yoga teacher and mine as a… whatever I am? What do raising a child and producing a podcast have in common? It was extremely entertaining, as is usually the case when Amanda joins me on the show.  At the risk of getting too sentimental, I will simply say that making The Third Story is one of the great privileges and joys of my life, I am grateful to all of the extraordinary people who have shared their stories with me, and I am even more grateful to you for listening to it. www.third-story.com www.patreon.com/thirdstorypodcast www.wbgo.org/studios www.leosidran.substack.com  

For the latest episode of NostalgiaCast '70s Palooza, Jonny and Darin tackle the faux-documentary / biography / proto-YouTube video essay that is Orson Welles's F FOR FAKE. They talk about the movie as an examination of authorship over art, Welles's (brazen but ultimately unsuccessful) attempts to explode the documentary form, and how a story of charlatans, magicians, and frauds slots into the legendary director's manic career.

Welcome to the final episode of our season of forgers, where we've been exploring the stories of some of the most amazing forgeries – and those behind them -- throughout history. But it wasn't all about fakes and forgeries. There were plenty of cocktails and mocktails to go around, too.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the early 1970s, McGraw-Hill Book Company landed what could have been the literary scoop of the 20th century: A writer named Clifford Irving pitched them that he'd obtained the permission of the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes to write a tell-all memoir of the mogul. That manuscript, though, turned out to be one of the biggest literary hoaxes of the 20th century, and it landed Irving in prison. Executive Producers: Maria Trimarchi and Holly FreyProducer & Editor: Casby BiasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brad Garoon & Jake Ziegler go back to 1976 to investigate Orson Welles' curious documentary For for Fake, and Andrei Tarkovsky's ponderous science fiction film Solaris. They talk about the curious structure of F for Fake, Welles' take on art forgery and art ownership in general, and the tumultuous lives of Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, and Howard Hughes. Then they go deep into what makes Tarkovsky's Solaris special, and glance at Steven Soderbergh's 2002 remake of the same name. Other movies mentioned in this episode: The Aviator (2004), Stalker (1979), Solaris (2002), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Annihilation (2018), The Fountain (2006), Angel's Egg (1985), Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Few filmmakers are as influential as the great Orson Welles. Few are as infamous. A man of magic, lies and art, Welles brings to light three fakers, one being himself in our first documentary. A documentary that observes the fakeness of art, the fakeness of "experts" and whether or not truth should get in the way of a good story. This week we return to the Criterion Collection with F for Fake!

Want to make a splash in publishing? Try ghostwriting an autobiography for a super famous man. Just make sure the famous man knows about it first.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats). Episode 11: Brad Phillips, Patricia Highsmith, and Clifford Irving Brad Phillips is a Canadian author and fine artist whose recent collection of “Essays and Fictions” (available here) courts with – and immediately undermines – an autobiographical reading, alluding repeatedly to the author's propensity for half-truths, misdirection, and straight-up grift. While formally reminiscent of Clifford Irving's Autobiography of Howard Hughes and its “confessional” follow-up, The Hoax, it finds – and pays deeper tribute to – another literary forbear, Patricia Highsmith, whose work is frequently referenced in Phillips', and whose penchant for con and confabulation refracts brilliantly through his wry postmodern lens. In the spirit of Phillips' loose relationship with the truth, and in accordance with Irving's methods, we present here – with the kind permission of Highsmith's estate - a recording of a newly uncovered Highsmith story, written for her cat in 1973, followed by a roundtable discussion of the three authors' works. MEOW is the first and only literary podcast for your cat, conceived and presented in its native language. This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats).  Brad Phillips' Essays and Fictions is available here.  Praise for Meow: A Novel "Breathtaking... a revelation." - Stubbs, Unaltered Domestic Shorthair "Meow meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow. Meow? Meow." - Joan Didion Follow us on Instagram: @meowliterature and Facebook: facebook.com/themeowlibrary  

In 1971, middling author Clifford Irving was able to convince a giant publisher that he landed the white whale—the autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. This was a guaranteed best seller. Problem was, Irving had made the whole thing up. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discuss this literary con and how it all came crashing down. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands Cite your sources: Grimes, William. “Clifford Irving, Author of a Notorious Literary Hoax, Dies at 87 (Published 2017).” The New York Times, 20 December 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/obituaries/clifford-irving-author-of-a-notorious-literary-hoax-dies-at-87.html. Accessed 4 September 2022. Irving, Clifford. “The Movie.” Clifford Irving, 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20071224024956/http://www.cliffordirving.com/movie.php. Linklater, Magnus, et al. Hoax: The Inside Story of the Howard Hughes - Clifford Irving Affair. Viking Press, 1972. Accessed 4 September 2022. Loria, Kevin. “What Motivates Con Artists?” Business Insider, 12 February 2016, https://www.businessinsider.com/what-motivates-con-artists-2016-2. Accessed 9 September 2022. Smith, Harrison. “Clifford Irving, whose 'autobiography' of Howard Hughes nearly fooled the nation, dies at 87.” The Washington Post, 21 December 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/clifford-irving-whose-autobiography-of-howard-hughes-nearly-fooled-the-nation-dies-at-87/2017/12/21/83c7f9ba-e662-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html. Accessed 29 August 2022. 

This week we're talking all things trickery and Howard Hughes as we discuss the 2006 film "The Hoax." There may be a detailed discussion of everything we ate at a Mets game, analysis of Elise's popcorn habits, and a downward spiral into Covid nihilism, but we also discuss the film's complicated plot, Clifford Irving's obnoxious personality, and Richard Gere's altered hairline and overwhelming feelings for Alfred Molina. Join us!

It's often said that movies are magic, but that's another way of saying that movies are a trick. Movies are made when a director stages and/or captures an assortment of scenarios and then, through careful editing, a pile of raw footage is pared down and spliced together to form a narrative. This process is filled with deliberate artifice and its goal is to manipulate its audience in some way. The master craftsmen of filmmaking are able to use the stories they create to slyly influence the people who watch them in ways that have sent innumerable reverberations throughout modern society. Cinema as a medium for misdirection is the stated agenda of F For Fake, the last completed film directed by Orson Welles. This movie began as a straightforward documentary about the life of infamous art forger Elmyr de Hory, but Welles ultimately seized control of the production from original director François Reichenbach and took things in a radically new direction. This happened after it was discovered that Elmyr's biographer Clifford Irving had fabricated a celebrated interview with reclusive aviator/film producer Howard Hughes; tickled by this revelation, Welles wanted to explore the intricacies of charlatanism through the various tricks and gimmicks that populate the filmmaker's arsenal. Among other things, this includes fake news broadcasts, misleading edits, and a few bits of performance art by Welles' mistress Oja Kodar. Largely rejected upon its original release, F For Fake eventually gained an appreciative cult audience and it's occasionally argued as an interesting precursor to the mockumentary and the video essay. Ryan is joined by Cheryl for the discussion about this one; talking points include the movie's stated premise, the important context that F For Fake omits from its narrative, the shadow that Orson Welles casts over pop culture, and the antics of Pablo Picasso. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ryan-valentine3/support

Josie tells Taylor about the web of lies behind a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Plus: Bar 9Eleven, the bar where you never forget.

It is said that the greatest art forger in the world is the one who has never been caught―the astonishing story of America’s most accomplished art forger, Ken Perenyi.Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality led federal agents to art dealers, renowned experts, and the major auction houses, the investigation inexplicably ended, despite an abundance of evidence collected. The case was closed and the FBI file was marked “exempt from public disclosure.”Now that the statute of limitations on these crimes has expired and the case appears hermetically sealed shut by the FBI, this book, Caveat Emptor, is Ken Perenyi’s confession. It is the story, in detail, of how he pulled it all off.Glamorous stories of art-world scandal have always captured the public imagination. However, not since Clifford Irving’s 1969 bestselling Fake has there been a story at all like this one. Caveat Emptor is unique in that it is the first and only book by and about America’s first and only great art forger. And unlike other forgers, Perenyi produced no paper trail, no fake provenance whatsoever; he let the paintings speak for themselves. And that they did, routinely mesmerizing the experts in mere seconds.In the tradition of Frank Abagnale’s Catch Me If You Can, and certain to be a bombshell for the major international auction houses and galleries, here is the story of America’s greatest art forger.

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In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal host Michael Shields, with the help of film historian Christian Niedan, delves into the nature of truth, and of art, and of the fine line that exists between deception and entertainment. To do this properly, two documentaries that expose the craft of deception are analyzed. First up, An Honest Liar, a documentary about the world-famous magician, escape artist, and world-renowned enemy of deception, James "The Amazing" Randi. Next, F for Fake is examined, a free-form documentary by Orson Welles where the legendary filmmaker reengages with the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous lines between illusion and truth, art and lies. Beginning with portraits of the world-renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally devious biographer, Clifford Irving, Welles embarks on a dizzying journey that simultaneously exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes. Utilizing the content of these two thought-provoking documentaries that expose charlatans and con artists for what they are, and what they are capable of, Michael and Christian expound upon how truly anyone can be deceived while marveling at the profound talents of magicians and con artists. Join in on an episode of Welcome To The Party Pal that serves as a reminder to Question Everything! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

While sipping on this sea plane inspired cocktail, Bekah talks about Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose. Shelley details the elaborate scheme to forge an autobiography of Hughes by writer Clifford Irving. Drinking: Spruce Goose 1 ½ oz gin ¾ oz honey ¾ oz lime juice ¼ oz angostura bitters 2 oz tonic water Combine all ingredients but tonic water into a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Strain and pour over ice into a collins glass. Top with tonic water.

In this episode the writer, publisher, and original Ibizologist, Martin Davies, helps us to bring alive some of the characters living in Ibiza in the 1960s. We delve deeper into the enigmatic figure of Elmyr de Hory, possibly the twentieth century’s greatest art forger. You’ll hear Martin challenge one by one what I had assumed to be the basic facts about Elmyr’s life. Next we take a look at some of the other figures surrounding Elmyr at the time. The novelist Clifford Irving, wrote the biography which catapulted Elmyr into the limelight. But Clifford was himself a faker who went to prison for writing a book which he claimed was the authorised biography of the reclusive millionaire Howard Hughes. Elmyr had a difficult relationship with his art dealer Fernand Legros who, together with his partner, Real Lessard, played a big part in Elmyr’s life. But Lessard – who is still alive - later claimed he was the artist behind many of the pictures claimed by Elmyr. We also discuss Orson Welles’ documentary “F for Fake” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIVgUjj6RxU and François Reichenbach’s “Elmyr, The True Picture?” https://vimeo.com/84083934 Martin talks about Mark Forgy’s book “The Forger's Apprentice: Life with the World's Most Notorious Artist”. I interviewed Mark – who lived with Elmyr in Ibiza - for a recent episode of Ibizology. You can also listen to my interview with the art historian and forgery expert, Jeffrey Taylor on the Ibizology archive.

It is said that the greatest art forger in the world is the one who has never been caught―the astonishing story of America’s most accomplished art forger, Ken Perenyi. Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality led federal agents to art dealers, renowned experts, and the major auction houses, the investigation inexplicably ended, despite an abundance of evidence collected. The case was closed and the FBI file was marked “exempt from public disclosure.” Now that the statute of limitations on these crimes has expired and the case appears hermetically sealed shut by the FBI, this book, Caveat Emptor, is Ken Perenyi’s confession. It is the story, in detail, of how he pulled it all off. Glamorous stories of art-world scandal have always captured the public imagination. However, not since Clifford Irving’s 1969 bestselling Fake has there been a story at all like this one. Caveat Emptor is unique in that it is the first and only book by and about America’s first and only great art forger. And unlike other forgers, Perenyi produced no paper trail, no fake provenance whatsoever; he let the paintings speak for themselves. And that they did, routinely mesmerizing the experts in mere seconds. In the tradition of Frank Abagnale’s Catch Me If You Can, and certain to be a bombshell for the major international auction houses and galleries, here is the story of America’s greatest art forger.   Become A Monthly Patron Option 1 : $1.00 USD - monthly Option 2 : $5.00 USD - monthly Option 3 : $10.00 USD - monthly Option 4 : $20.00 USD - monthly Option 5 : $50.00 USD - monthly Option 6 : $55.00 USD - monthly Greetings human listeners.  I’m Cameron Brauer and this is My Alien Life Patron page.  https://patron.podbean.com/myalienlife My Alien Life is a podcast for those who have a story to tell, and I really wish I could get to all of your stories.  I promise to do my best..  What is this?  Think of it as an online tip jar.  My Alien Life Patron Page is a website that gives everyone in the world an opportunity to become a patron and support the artists they believe in.  The great thing about supporting My Alien Life is, you get to decide how much you feel comfortable contributing to each podcast. My goal is to keep doing at least two podcasts each week… And it’s okay if you want to put a cap on how much you’d like to support every month so you don’t go over your budget..  As you know, some weeks I get a burst of energy and I want to produce lots of new content… I’ll keep producing episode after episode and you’ll get ALL the content.. I won’t hold back and make you pay for extra content.   And if you just want to listen without becoming a patron, that’s awesome, you still get to hear all My Alien Life Podcasts for free.   It’s expensive to make a podcast.  There’s electronic gear, web domain fees, web hosting fees, tee-shirts, postage stamps, tin foil hats, alien assault spray and more..... No matter what you decide, please always listen to the podcast.  That’s what I really want. We are a team, and your support is what keeps people like us going… Thank you for being amazing, and keep listening to My Alien Life the Podcast!! Respectfully, Cam   You can find my website at  www.myalienlifepodcast.com and our latest downloads are always at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher at Podbean.com and everywhere else fine podcasts are found…...and please follow me and like me on Facebook and Twitter... My alien life is written and produced for broadcast at Studio 254 in the Northern Rocky Mountains..    The music you've heard tonight is produced and created by ELEON. ELEON is changing the face of New Age with what can only be describes as "Epic Chill" on Heart Dance Record's first Electronic release. You can find all ELEON’s work online at HEART DANCE records, Facebook...

A few recent shady book happenings; New York Times fake bestseller Triggered by Donald Trump Jr and the sentencing of Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh for her Healthy Holly scandal got us interested in some other historical book scams including Clifford Irving's fake Howard Hughes biography and Go Ask Alice written by Anonymous. Please rate, review and subscribe if you dig this. It really helps us a lot!

Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist, author and podcast maker. His first five books were on The New York Times Best Seller list. Here her chats to Simon and Matt about his favourite authors and books - which include John Le Carre, Henry Treece and Clifford Irving See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

,,Hvað er list? Hver fær að vera kallaður listamaður og snillingur? Og hvernig metum við listgildi verka?'' eru meðal þeirra spurninga sem Orson Welles spyr í kvikmynd sinni F For Fake (1974). Þetta er framsækið og tilraunakennt heimildardrama þar sem fléttað er saman nokkrum ólíkum sögum um listfalsara, þ.á.m. Elmyr de Hory og Clifford Irving. Við rýnum í umrædda mynd í þætti dagsins með Birni Þór Vilhjálmssyni. ,,Mér sýnist myndin koma fram með tilgátu um það hvernig listaheimurinn virkar og á sama tíma gagnrýnir hún listaheiminn og menningarlega staðla“ sagði Björn Þór meðal annars um athyglisverða kvikmynd Welles. F For Fake er síðasta mynd leikstjórans í fullri lengd og sker sig úr höfundarverki hans. Sjálfur vildi hann meina að ekki væri hægt að flokka hana þar sem hún tilheyrði ,,nýrri kvikmyndagrein''. Myndin er að hluta sjálfsævisöguleg - Welles stillir sjálfum sér upp við hlið loddaranna de Hory og Irving og íhugar almennt fúskara eðli mannsins. Viðmælandi er Björn Þór Vilhjálmsson, lektor í almennri bókmenntafræði og kvikmyndafræði við Háskóla Íslands. Skyndibitinn er píta.

,,Hvað er list? Hver fær að vera kallaður listamaður og snillingur? Og hvernig metum við listgildi verka?'' eru meðal þeirra spurninga sem Orson Welles spyr í kvikmynd sinni F For Fake (1974). Þetta er framsækið og tilraunakennt heimildardrama þar sem fléttað er saman nokkrum ólíkum sögum um listfalsara, þ.á.m. Elmyr de Hory og Clifford Irving. Við rýnum í umrædda mynd í þætti dagsins með Birni Þór Vilhjálmssyni. ,,Mér sýnist myndin koma fram með tilgátu um það hvernig listaheimurinn virkar og á sama tíma gagnrýnir hún listaheiminn og menningarlega staðla“ sagði Björn Þór meðal annars um athyglisverða kvikmynd Welles. F For Fake er síðasta mynd leikstjórans í fullri lengd og sker sig úr höfundarverki hans. Sjálfur vildi hann meina að ekki væri hægt að flokka hana þar sem hún tilheyrði ,,nýrri kvikmyndagrein''. Myndin er að hluta sjálfsævisöguleg - Welles stillir sjálfum sér upp við hlið loddaranna de Hory og Irving og íhugar almennt fúskara eðli mannsins. Viðmælandi er Björn Þór Vilhjálmsson, lektor í almennri bókmenntafræði og kvikmyndafræði við Háskóla Íslands. Skyndibitinn er píta.

Perfidy and Pickles; a Podcast about crimes, cons, escapes and fakes. In this episode I talk about Clifford Irving’s fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Part 2 of 2

Perfidy and Pickles; a Podcast about crimes, cons, escapes and fakes. In this episode I talk about Clifford Irving’s fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Part 1 of 2

In 1971, Clifford Irving wrote a sensational biography of the eccentric and reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, which Irving claimed was both authorized and co-authored by Hughes himself. In fact, it was a hoax, and Irving manufactured the book from whole cloth. But Hughes did not immediately deny co-authoring the book, leading many to believe it was genuine, including McGraw-Hill, which paid Irving a $765,000 advance for the right to publish it.On January 7, 1972, Hughes held a "telephonic press conference" from his penthouse suite at the Xanadu Princess Resort on Grand Bahama Island, in which he denounced Irving's book and denied any involvement in its creation. Mark 56 released this LP of the press conference, which was produced by George Garabedian, with Wayne Thomis, the aviation editor for the Chicago Tribune, narrating and standing in for the journalists who questioned Hughes.Irving was eventually convicted of fraud and spent 17 months in prison. In 1977, he published The Hoax, telling his version of the story. In 2006, Richard Gere starred in the movie The Hoax, which was also based on these events. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Clifford Irving was a great writer, and a great character. Although he published 20 novels, he was probably best known for a hoax "autobiography" allegedly written as told to Irving by billionaire recluse Howard Hughes. By the time I met Clifford, he was a gentle old man. We talked during the winter of 2016 about his life, his career, and his general world view. Clifford passed away on December 19. This episode was originally posted in 2016.  www.third-story.com

Writer Clifford Irving has lived a lot of life and had many loves, but he says his “one true love” was the Island of Ibiza, where he made his life for 20 years starting in the early 1950s.  I spent an afternoon with Irving in Mexico talking about his childhood in New York, traveling the world in the 1950s, becoming a writer, Ibiza in the 1960s, and the elaborate hoax (sometimes called the “Hughes Affair”) for which he is perhaps best known. www.third-story.com

Which image comes into your mind when you think of Howard Hughes? Famous aviator? American playboy? Batshit crazy person?  All of those things are kind of true. This week's story, however, is about one of the many untrue things surrounding Howard Hughes -- Clifford Irving's "autobiography" of him. 

http://searchforschlock.com/media/podcasts/sfs-049-fForFake.mp3 Download MP3 Yeah, that's right, we're cheaters: not every movie we watch is bad. Some are downright excellent, but obscure enough to be overlooked by even people who like excellent movies. We like to keep one wonderful movie on the List of Doom, just to keep it interesting, and F For Fake has held that position since Search for Schlock began. Now, at last, we get to watch one of Orson Welles's last great works [in which he is sober]. This one is a documentary about frauds -- a forger who makes tens of thousands of dollars for paintings that take minutes to produce; the forger's even-more-infamous biographer, who wrote Howard Hughes's "autobiography" without his knowledge or input; and Welles himself, a self-styled magician who tells lies for a living. This is a good one, people; get your hands on a copy and watch it before we spoil the ending for you. In sum: Ah, the French! Original post located at searchforschlock.com.