Chapter 926: Third-rate scam
Hollywood, Universal Studios, Ms. Sloan hurriedly got out of the car, took the visitor badge handed by Taragi at the door, hung it around her neck, and followed her into the studio.
"Shh
While the Blade Warriors were filming, Tarragi made a silent gesture on his lips, and the two quietly walked to the edge of the set to watch the excitement.
“Go!”
APLUS, who was wearing a trench coat and sunglasses, was surrounded by several bloody group performers, the shotgun in his hand burst into flames, and several Chinese martial artists shouted the trumpet to pull the tightrope device, and the Chinese stuntman who was 'hit' immediately flew into the air with a painful expression, and fell several meters away in an exaggerated backwards, until he smashed a fluorescent tube in two, and then fell to the ground with an electric spark.
"Cards!"
After the director shouted to stop, the martial artists immediately rushed over and lifted the stuntman who gritted his teeth and endured pain on the ground to lift the steel rope tied to his waist.
"Hey, how's it going?" APLUS also smiled and went over to care.
"No problem...... stuntman waved his hand and stood up with grin.
"OK, take a break, come back in fifteen minutes and shoot again, all departments ......" The director's voice came from afar.
The warriors let out a few complaints in Cantonese with foul language, and helped the stuntmen to rest.
Song Ya saw Sloan and Taraghi at this time, tilted his head at them, and walked towards the VIP dressing room together, "You know my new trouble, right?" ”
"The autobiography? Shouldn't it be Johnny Carson's trouble? Sloan asked rhetorically.
"It's a bit complicated...... Taraji, close the door. ”
Song Ya took off the trench coat, katana, and cuirass with the help of the staff, revealing a black sleeveless tight T-shirt that was bulging with tendon meat, "The old man has called the police, but ......"
When Johnny Carson learned that the publisher was negotiating a contract with Kunes for his memoir-style autobiography, he immediately called the police and had his lawyer issue a statement that he had not licensed the autobiography to any writer or publisher.
The crappy scam immediately caught the public's eye, but several of the publishers involved have not responded for the time being, and Simon Schuster, who has paid a deposit to Kunes, is still seeking verification.
"Kunes was a big fan of the legendary con artist Abagnell, and he took advantage of the cat-and-mouse game project to make Johnny Carson happy, visiting his Bamberk home several times......"
Song Ya briefly introduced the ins and outs.
"Sounds a lot like the Howard Hughes autobiographical hoax?" Sloan asked.
"Yes, Kunes should also be a fan of Clifford Elwin, maybe he really regarded cheating as an honorable career, it's hard to imagine that he won an Academy Award with a cat-and-mouse game, and still do such a thing." Song Ya nodded.
In the '70s, the down-and-out writer Clifford Elwin suddenly claimed that he had obtained the autobiography authorization of the legendary Howard Hughes, who had a reckless personality and was already in seclusion, and he used a forged Hughes signature to deceive the trust of top publisher McGrawhill.
McGrawhill was also skeptical of Hughes because he couldn't be contacted at all, but he was carried away by the interest of publishing the legendary tycoon's autobiography exclusively, and he paid Clifford Elwin millions of dollars in advance.
Although Clifford Erwin is 'halfway home', he is a very talented deceitful guy, constantly flying around the world, creating the illusion of following Howard Hughes's footsteps to the publishing house, and concentrating on all Hughes's historical materials, company management information, lace news, and even interviewing Hughes's acquaintances for materials, spending nine months working at the desk, and actually making a celebrity autobiography that looks good.
The hapless McGraw-Hill publishers were so rewarded that Howard Hughes learned of all of this when they began to promote their new book, and like Johnny Carson today, he hastened to get his lawyer to issue a statement, publicly declaring via conference call that he had not authorized anyone to write his autobiography.
Clifford Alvin is also a talent, and in this case, he can also take advantage of Hughes's reluctance to appear in public and hold a press conference to bite back, saying that Hughes and his lawyer in this conference call are fakes.
The McGraw-Hill executives, who had already spent a lot of money and time, were completely confused, and they could only use private investigators to cooperate with the police investigation, and finally in 72, on the eve of the publication of the autobiography, they caught the conclusive evidence of Clifford Erwin's deception, sent him and his comrades to prison, and the truth was revealed.
The legend of this hoax does not stop there, in Clifford Elwin's fake autobiography, he made up a plot in which Hughes lent 400,000 meters to Nixon, the then commander-in-chief, which happened to be an election year, and the political leanings of McGraw-Hill Press, this rather crooked political and business collusion joke could not help but make Nixon suspect that it was a conspiracy of the Donkey Party, so he sent the chief security adviser of his re-election committee with four agents, Secretly infiltrated the office of the National Committee of the Donkey Party in the Watergate Hotel to install bugs and secretly photograph documents, but I didn't expect to be caught red-handed by the security guards......
The Watergate scandal led to Nixon's defection and resignation, and he had to resign in order to avoid impeachment and ousting office.
As a butterfly flapping the wings of a major historical event, Clifford Elwin had a good life after his release from prison, and Hughes died in '76, but he gradually succeeded in whitewashing, and now he has become a true best-selling author.
Perhaps Kunes, who idolized the two legendary liars, saw a path to replicable success, so he picked Johnny Carson, who was also in his last years, in the cat-and-mouse game crew.
But now is no more than yesterday, the current publishing house has learned the lesson of McGrawhill, they will not be stupid to strictly enforce the non-disclosure agreement, and Johnny Carson is not the stubborn Howard Hughes. After the publisher verified the news through the media, Johnny Carson immediately called the local police in Banberk to his home to explain the situation.
"So? Is there a need for our crisis PR? Sloane asked, confused.
"Yes."
Song Ya nodded, "In order to win the trust of the publishing house, in addition to also forging Johnny Carson's signature, Kunes's third-rate liar also provided a lot of so-called documentary evidence to the other party, I think it is nothing more than something he secretly recorded during his participation in the compilation of the script of the cat and mouse game." It's a nuance, because neither Johnny Carson nor I know what he's giving to the publisher. ”
Sloan understood, "Although Johnny Carson called the police at the first time, after calming down, he should think of the fact that he couldn't be shaken out by Kunes and didn't play a particularly big role in the adaptation of the cat-and-mouse game script. So Kunes hasn't completely lost the scam, and that's why Simon Schuster is still reluctant to give up hope, right? ”
"Correct! We'll have to guard against Johnny Carson compromising and then making mistakes and throwing the dirty water on me with Kunes. ”
Song Ya snapped his fingers.
"And the executives of Simon Schuster Publishing, who don't want to be another laughing stock in the industry, after all, they have already paid a deposit to Kunes?" Sloan asked.
"Simon Schuster is owned by Lei Shidong's Viacom Group, and William Morris will take you over to visit the media mogul."
At this time, the field reporter came to urge, and Song Ya asked Taraghi to take out a business card with the logo of William Morris's agency, "You contact Donovan yourself, make an appointment." ”
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