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To: epicure who wrote (4960)	3/13/2005 11:10:34 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51729

I read the Le Carre book, it is really good. He's one of my favorite authors.

To: epicure who wrote (4960)	5/15/2005 4:32:42 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51729

How did you like Absolute Friends? I enjoy LeCarre's novels since the cold war ended, a lot of people thought he would have nothing to write about but the world is just as treacherous a place, the only thing that has changed is the phantom menace.

To: epicure who wrote (4960)	5/15/2005 8:56:38 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 51729

Hi ionesco, Happened to catch 'F for Fake' on the IFC channel while surfing. Cost me an hour and a half out of my day, but well worth it. Had never seen it. A "documentary" by Orson Welles on high level fakery.. I remember Clifford Irving but didn't know of de Hory.. can't know everything, I guess, but I'm trying.. Anyway I will be doing some Googling on him, a fascinating and most talented man. After watching that, I've decided all life is probably 'fake".. Or I won't know the dif.. EDIT: After just a little G'ng, I did find out that I don't know anything about art or forgeries, for that matter.. Editorial Reviews Amazon.com To call Orson Welles's F For Fake a documentary would be somewhat deceitful, but deceit itself is very much the subject of this curious film essay. Welles ruminates on the nature of artistic fakery through two examples, that of infamous art forger Elmyr de Hory and the writer Clifford Irving, whose bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes set off a minor media flurry in the 1970s. Postmodernist that he is, Wells then proceeds to narrate and edit the film in such a perversely frenetic way as to blur the lines between what is real and what is deception, making for an often confusing but engaging work of art in itself. We even see the footage we've been watching as it's being spliced together in Welles's editing room. The specter of Welles's often maligned later career hangs over the proceedings like a challenge--is he going to actually complete this strange movie about chicanery, or will it become one of the many unfinished experiments of his twilight years? Happily, Welles concludes the proceedings with a delightful sequence about Picasso, lust, and what constitutes real art. F For Fake is a fine example of a master filmmaker who had at least a couple tricks left up his sleeve. --Ryan Boudinot --This text refers to the DVD edition.>>>> amazon.com ANOTHER EDIT: Another link sniggle.net