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 The Hoax released in theatres Friday, April 6, 2007. The film shot in New York City in from July 5th through October 14th of 2005. In 1971, Clifford Irving told an incredible whopper – one that became one of the most audacious and outrageous hoaxes ever perpetrated on the media and American public. Claiming to have obtained Howard Hughes’ long sought-after memoirs, Irving pulled the wool over the entire publishing industry’s eyes, and nearly made off with major cash and worldwide fame, until his clever yarn unraveled into a serious crime. The film stars Richard Gere, who shot Unfaithful in 2002 in NYC, as Irving, Alfred Molina, who shot Spider Man 2 in 2004 in NYC, as Dick Suskind, Irving’s researcher and collaborator, and Marcia Gay Harden, who shot P.S. in 2004, as Irving’s European artist wife. From the start of production, Production Designer Mark Ricker and Director Lasse Hallstrom made the decision to create most of their own sets on stages at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, which seemed to suit this tone of the film. Irving’s journey takes him not only into the corridors of power at McGraw-Hill but into swanky hotel rooms, the Pentagon, the Library of Congress, Las Vegas and the Bahamas, each of which Ricker created in New York. Ricker especially had fun building the interior of McGraw-Hill’s offices form scratch to give it an atmosphere that really brings to life Clifford Irving’s audacity in the face of power and money. The 70s-era look is sleek, bright and rife with the visual shock of a publishing office without a single computer – lined instead with electric typewriters. They also made a switch with the building’s exterior. In 1971, the McGraw-Hill offices were housed on 42nd street, atop a classic Art Deco skyscraper, but the locale was logistically impossible to shoot. Since McGraw Hill would move shortly thereafter to Rockefeller Center, the production used that location for a few key sequences (including one where Irving waits for Howard Hughes to supposedly arrive in his helicopter – a scene that never happened in real life). The film also shot in: Central Park at the Hans Christian Anderson statue Capitol Fishing Tackle in Chelsea where actors buy scuba gear Washington Square Park where a Nixon protest causes a traffic jam NYS Insurance Fund office on Church street between Duana and Reade – which substituted as the New York Times office The Fireside Pub in the Bronx Low Library at Columbia University – which subbed for the Library of Congress 60 Centre Street which stands as Criminal Courts Chambers Street at Elk street which stood in for a Swiss Bank The Roosevelt Hotel Café Des Artistes on 67th and CPW Waldorf Astoria for Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball scene Gotham Book Mart on East 46th and Madison View the trailer |  |
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