Chicago 1990

Hollywood, Universal Studios, Ms. Sloan hurriedly got out of the car, took the visitor ID handed by Taraji and hung it around her neck at the door, and followed her into the studio.

"Shhh."

The Blade Warrior was shooting, Taraji made a silent gesture on his lips, and the two quietly walked to the edge of the set to watch the excitement.

"Go!"

An APLUS dressed in a windbreaker and sunglasses was surrounded by several **** group performers. The shotgun in his hand burst into flames. Several Chinese martial arts masters chanted and pulled the cable device. The Chinese stuntman who was "hit" immediately expressed pain. The ground flew up into the air, and then it fell a few meters away in an exaggerated way, until a fluorescent tube was smashed into two pieces before it fell to the ground accompanied by electric sparks.

"card!"

After the director stopped, the martial artists rushed over, lifted up the stuntman who was gritting his teeth on the ground, and lifted the tightrope tied to his waist.

"Hey, how is it?" APLUS smiled and cared.

"There is no problem..." The stuntman waved his hand in a refreshing manner, grinning hard to stand up.

"OK, take a break, come back in fifteen minutes and shoot again, all departments..." The director's voice came from afar.

The martial arts masters complained in Cantonese with swear words, and helped the stuntman to rest.

Song Ya only saw Sloan and Taraji at this time, tilted her head at them, and walked to the VIP dressing room together, "Do you know my new trouble?"

"That autobiography? Shouldn't it be Johnny Carson's trouble?" Sloan asked back.

"It's a bit complicated... Taraji, close the door."

With the help of the staff, Song Ya removed the windbreaker, the katana and the breastplate, revealing a black sleeveless tight-fitting T-shirt swollen with tendons, "The old man has called the police, but..."

After Johnny Carson learned that the publishing house had negotiated with Kunes for his memoir-style autobiography contract, he immediately called the police and asked his lawyer to issue a statement that he did not authorize the autobiography to any author or publishing agency.

This lame scam immediately caught the eyes of the public, but the several publishing houses involved did not respond for the time being. I heard that Simon Schuster, which had already paid Kunes a deposit, is still seeking verification.

"Kunes had a suspicious character before. He is a big fan of the legendary liar Abagnell. He took advantage of the cat and mouse game project to coax Johnny Carson very happy, and visited his Banburk house many times as a guest... …"

Song Ya gave a brief introduction.

"Sounds like a Howard Hughes autobiographical scam?" Sloan asked.

"Yes, Kunes should also be a fan of Clifford Irvine. Maybe he really regards cheating as a glorious cause. It's hard to imagine. He won the Oscar by playing cat and mouse, but he still Do this kind of mischief." Song Ya nodded.

In the 1970s, the down-and-out writer Clifford Irwin suddenly claimed that he was authorized by the autobiography of the legendary tycoon Howard Hughes, who was already in a reclusive state. He tricked the top publisher McGraw Hill with a forged Hughes signature. Trust.

Because Hughes could not be contacted at all, McGraw Hill had always been skeptical, but was overwhelmed by the interest of the exclusive publishing of the autobiography of the legendary tycoon. He prepaid Clifford Irvine with millions of dollars in advance. Author's remuneration.

Although Clifford Irwin was'abstracted halfway,' he was a talented deceiver who kept flying around the world, creating the illusion of personal visits to publishing houses following in the footsteps of Howard Hughes, and devoted himself to studying Hughes. All the historical materials, company management information, lace news and even the generous interviews with Hughes acquaintances. After nine months of working at the desk, he actually produced an autobiography of a celebrity that looked so good.

The hapless McGraw-Hill Press was a treasure. Howard Hughes learned of all this when they started to announce the new book. Like Johnny Carson today, he quickly asked the lawyer to issue a statement and publicly approved it. The conference call claimed that it did not authorize anyone to write an autobiography.

Clifford Irvine is also an individual talent. In this case, he can still use Hughes's unwillingness to appear in public and hold a press conference to bite back, saying that Hughes and his lawyers in the conference call are fakes. of.

The McGraw Hill executives, who had paid a lot of money and time, were completely confused. They could only use private investigators to cooperate with the police investigation. Finally, in 1972, before the publication of the autobiography, they caught Clifford Irvine’s With conclusive evidence of deception, he and his comrades were sent to prison, and the truth became clear.

The legend of this scam does not stop there. In Clifford Irvine’s forged autobiography, he fabricated a plot in which Hughes lent the then commander Nixon a 400,000-meter knife, which happened to be the election year. Coupled with the political inclinations of McGraw Hill Publishing House, this rather crooked political-business collusion could not help but make Nixon suspect that it was a conspiracy by the Donkey Party, so he sent his chief security adviser to the re-election committee with four special agents, secretly He sneaked into the office of the Donkey Party National Committee located in the Watergate Hotel to install bugs and secretly photographed documents, but was caught by the security guard on the spot...

The Watergate case led to Nixon’s resignation and resignation in order to avoid being impeached.

As a butterfly wing that fanned major historical events, Clifford Irwin had a good time after he was released from prison. Hughes passed away in seven or six years, but he gradually succeeded in whitewashing and has now become a true best-selling author.

Perhaps Kunes, who regarded the two legendary liars as idols, saw a reproducible road to success, so in the cat and mouse game crew, he picked Johnny Carson, who was also in a dying year.

But today is no earlier than yesterday. The current publishing houses have learned the lessons of McGraw Hill. They will not strictly enforce the confidentiality agreement stupidly, and Johnny Carson is not the stubborn Howard Hughes to avoid people. After the press circulated through the media to verify the situation, Johnny Carson immediately called the local police in Banbury to his home to explain the situation.

"So? Is there a place for our crisis public relations?" Sloan asked suspiciously.

"Have."

Song Ya nodded, "In order to win the trust of the publishing house, the third-rate liar from Kunes also forged Johnny Carson’s signature and also provided the other party with a lot of so-called documentary evidence. I think it was nothing more than his participation in the cat and mouse game script. Something secretly recorded during the compilation process. This is a hidden danger, because neither Johnny Carson nor I know what he gave the publishing house. UU read www.uukanshu.com"

Sloan understood, "Although Johnny Carson called the police for the first time, he should have thought that he could not be shaken out by Kunes after he calmed down. In the process of adapting the cat and mouse game script, he did not play any particularly big. The fact that works. So Kunes hasn’t completely lost this scam, and that’s why Simon Schuster Press is still reluctant to give up hope, right?"

"Correct! We have to guard against Johnny Carson's compromise, and then make the mistakes go wrong, and work with Kunes to pour the dirty water on me."

Song Ya snapped his fingers.

"And the senior executives of Simon Schuster Publishing House, they 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 Publishing belongs to Redstone's Viacom Group. William Morris will take you to visit that media tycoon."

At this time, Changji came to urge, Song Ya asked Taraji to take out a business card with the logo of William Morris's agency, "You can contact Donovan yourself and make an appointment."

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