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brykMantra said:

Some of it was true, maybe, but I have doubts about the rest. I was in the audience for one of his lectures in 1977, and back then he said that they were going to make a movie of his life and that Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino were getting into fistfights over who would get to play him. Nine years later somebody I knew heard his talk, and he said that Tom Cruise and Charlie Sheen were now fighting over the role. In the early 90's he changed it to the two biggest actors of the time, I forget who. It looks like he kept repeating the lie so often that eventually somebody believed him and made the movie.

Think about this: How much of the movie can actually be proved? Maybe a couple of arrests, but certainly not the "hook the hooker with the fake cashiers check", and probably not a lot of the rest of it either.

I'm not doubting that he's a con man, I just dispute where and when he did the most of his conning ...

July 12, 2004 08:17 PM

kim said:

I figured some of it was embellished. Most "true" stories are. But even if it's all a lie, that still makes him a great con man for that.

July 12, 2004 11:45 PM

Duane said:

I was talking to my college professor today and he said he was at a lecture too back in the 70's. He mentioned Dustin Hoffman being considered for the role. During that lecture Abagnale told the story about the girl Jennifer Garner played. Abagnale said she was famous and her first name was Cheryl. The people started asking if it was Cheryl Ladd, he shook his head "no". My prof. asked if it was Cheryl Teague, at the Abagnale smiled and nodded.

March 25, 2009 11:19 PM

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