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...
Video clip of hoax call with UK minister Ben Wallace published
Two prominent Russian hoaxers have published footage from a call they made to the UK defence secretary.
In a recording posted online, Ben Wallace can be heard speaking to A Man in a video call, made while Mr Wallace was visiting Poland on Friday.
Mr Wallace revealed The Hoax last week, saying he had been targeted by an " imposter" posing as the Ukrainian PM.
The UK government has blamed Russia for targeting British ministers with fake calls about The Conflict in Ukraine.
Home Secretary Priti Patel revealed she had received a hoax call last week, whilst No 10 said Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has also been targeted.
The recording of the video call to Mr Wallace was posted online by Vladimir " Vovan" Kuznetsov and Alexei " Lexus" Stolyarov.
The pair have targeted A Number of politicians and public figures in The Past . They were credited with a hoax call to then-foreign secretary Boris Johnson in 2018, in which he was targeted by a caller.
Previous recordings of their alleged conversations have been aired on Russian TV.
In the published footage, which lasts around a minute, Mr Wallace, shown in a car, is asked questions about an alleged nuclear weapons programme for Ukraine.
A defence source told The Bbc the clip had been " doctored".
After the video was published, Mr Wallace said: " Things must be going so badly for the Kremlin that they are now resorting to pranks and video fakes. "
War in Ukraine: More coverageEarlier, Boris Johnson 's spokesman told reporters that " the Russian State was responsible for The Hoax telephone calls made to UK ministers last week".
The spokesman did not give further details, but added: " This is standard practice for Russian information operations.
" Disinformation is a tactic straight from the Kremlin playbook to try to distract from their illegal activities in Ukraine and the Human Rights abuses being committed there. "
It is understood that Mr Wallace was put through to a Microsoft Teams video call which lasted about 10 Minutes .
The video call was Set Up after an email, purportedly from an aide at the Ukrainian embassy in London, was sent to a UK government department And Then forwarded to the Ministry of Defence.
A cross-department government inquiry into how The Call happened is ongoing.
Asked whether defences against hoax calls were strong enough, the No 10 spokesman said there was guidance on how such calls should be handled.
The Russian duo have also claimed to have interviewed politicians including Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg , former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and US Senator John Mccain .
Source of news: bbc.com
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