The Hoax

De Hory, a Hungarian native, told his story to the equally notorious hoax biographer Clifford Irving (played by Richard Gere in "The Hoax" in 2007) for the book "Fake!" Additionally, Orson Welles made a documentary about him, "F For...

In this article: Orson Welles, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, To Catch a Thief, Richard Gere, Sex Pistols, and F for Fake

...on the story of art faker Elmyr de Hory, written by the equally notorious hoax biographer Clifford Irving. Richard Gere played him in "The Hoax" in 2007. Temple has pacted with U.K. based production and finance house Film and Music...

In this article: Julian Temple, Elmyr de Hory, Orson Welles, To Catch a Thief, Clifford Irving, Richard Gere, and Howard Stern

In the early 1970s, Nina van Pallandt was romantically linked to fellow Ibiza resident Clifford Irving. In the 2007 film, The Hoax, about Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes, Nina van Pallandt is portrayed by Julie Delpy. The...

In this article: Frederik, Baron van Pallandt, Clifford Irving, James Bond movie, Nina & Frederik, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, George Lazenby, and Richard Gere

The Hoax is a 2006 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallstrom. The screenplay by William Wheeler is based on the book of the same title by Clifford Irving and focuses on the autobiography Irving supposedly helped Howard Hughes write.

In this article: Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes, McGraw-Hill, Richard Nixon, New York City, and Richard Gere

...as if to plead, laugh now! For a sharper, funnier portrait of a charming con artist, rent Richard Gere's criminally underseen, The Hoax. The 180-a Second Opinion: In this post-Ponzi era, it can be quite cathartic to see any slick...

In this article: Matt Damon, The Informant, Mark Whitacre, Archer Daniels Midland, Bipolar disorder, FBI, Scott Bakula, and Richard Gere

...place: making the not-so-subtle suggestion that Irving himself may have been the victim. Could the hoaxer have been out-hoaxed? The implication made in the film is that Hughes used Irving and his book (which included false bribery charges...

In this article: Clifford Irving, Richard Gere, Lasse Hallstrom, Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon, McGraw Hill, and Alfred Molina

...masquerading as the secluded Stanley Kubrick in the 1990s. A magazine headline calls Howard Hughes "Invisible Billionaire" in "The Hoax," about how Clifford Irving (Richard Gere) convinced publishers he was collaborating on Hughes's...

In this article: Clifford Irving, Color Me Kubrick, Alan Conway, Stanley Kubrick, Cormac McCarthy, Howard Hughes, Oprah Winfrey, and John Malkovich

And that's the same theme as his new film, "The Hoax," opening Friday. Richard Gere as Clifford Irving in "The Hoax." "The Hoax," directed by Lasse Hallstrom, is the true story of writer Clifford Irving, who sells a fake...

In this article: Richard Gere, Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes, Bob Dylan, Chicago, New York, and Lasse Hallstrom

...mitigating circumstances. It just is. It's too bad the pristine simplicity of Irving's greed is not enough to galvanize the movie. "The Hoax," which William Wheeler adapted from Irving's own book of the same name, posits this grand...

In this article: Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes, Whoppers, McGraw-Hill, Richard Gere, and Hope Davis

...along with other premieres, such as "Alatriste," a movie about a soldier living in 17th century Spain starring Viggo Mortensen; "The Hoax," starring Gere; and Mira Nair's "The Namesake," about an Indian family moving to New York City.

In this article: Nicole Kidman, Rome, Richard Gere, Fur, Diane Arbus, Mira Nair, Viggo Mortensen, The Namesake, Sean Connery, and Alatriste