The Hoax - Lasse Hallstrom & Clifford Irving

[Harvey Chartrand]

Richard Gere plays faker Clifford Irving in new biopic. Welles's F FOR FAKE is mentioned in this New York Times piece entitled "Based on an Untrue Story".
I don't know how much of this story we should believe, as it is, after all, published in the New York Times, which has run its share of fake stories lately.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/movies/27broe.html

[Terry]

Great subject for a bio pic.

Bad, bad casting. Gere has neither the charisma nor the intellectual intensity to portray the Cliff Irving with whom I'm familiar (though maybe he'll prove himself as an actor and I'll be surprised.)

This is an unrelated side note: did anyone know that the word Depp means "stupid" in German? Poor Johnny.

[NoFake]

It's worse. According to my dictionary, "Depp" is a noun -- and it means "twit".

[Harvey Chartrand]

Poor bleeder. I feel so sorry for him.
Johnny Depp's name really blighted his career.
He had to settle for being the finest and most successful actor of his generation, collecting great directors along the way, like Jack Nicholson used to do before he went soft... Depp also worked with Marlon Brando – directing him in THE BRAVE, a work of genius that was barely released, unfortunately. (Shades of Orson!)
Depp is so adventurous he would have taken the lead role in Welles' THE BIG BRASS RING. Of that I'm sure. Depp played a drag queen in BEFORE NIGHT FALLS and didn't give a toss.