TY - ADVS AU - Gordon,Mark AU - Holleran,Leslie AU - Maurer,Joshua D. AU - Beers,Betsy AU - Yari,Bob AU - Wheeler,William AU - Hallström,Lasse AU - Gere,Richard AU - Molina,Alfred AU - Harden,Marcia Gay AU - Davis,Hope AU - Delpy,Julie AU - Tucci,Stanley AU - Burwell,Carter AU - Irving,Clifford ED - Miramax Films. ED - Bob Yari Productions. ED - Mark Gordon Company. ED - City Entertainment (Firm) ED - Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm) ED - Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm) TI - The hoax SN - 0788867709 AV - PN1995.9.C55 H639 2007 U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 2007///] CY - Burbank, CA PB - Miramax Home Entertainment, Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment KW - Irving, Clifford KW - Hughes, Howard, KW - Biographers KW - United States KW - Drama KW - Scandals KW - Mass media KW - Biografías KW - Siglo XX KW - Teatro KW - bidex KW - Corrupción KW - Estados Unidos KW - Feature films KW - Comedy films KW - Melodrama KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Comedy KW - Feature KW - migfg KW - gsafd N1 - Based upon the book by Clifford Irving; DVD release of the 2006 motion picture; Special features: "Stranger than fiction;" deleted scenes with commentary by director Lasse Hallström and writer William Wheeler; extended scene "Business as pleasure;" feature commentary with producers Leslie Holleran and Joshua D. maurer; "Mike Wallace: reflections on a con."; Director of photography, Oliver Stapleton ; editor, Andrew Mondshein ; music, Carter Burwell ; costume designer, David Robinson ; production designer, Mark Ricker; Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, Julie Delpy, Stanley Tucci; MPAA rating: R; for language N2 - Pathological liar Clifford Irving stages a complex hoax. In the 1970's Irving managed to fool a major publisher and LIFE magazine into thinking he was writing an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Irving and his best friend and partner, Dick Susskind, go to extreme lengths to pull off the hair-brained scheme. The more outrageous the lies they concoct, the more believable they become and the more money gets thrown at them. Inspired by the unbelievable true story of the man who faked the authorized autobiography of Howard Hughes and nearly pulled off the media scam of the 20th century ER -