LEE ISRAEL
Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about LEE ISRAEL!
Fakes and fortunes: has the time come to forgive literary forger Lee Israel?: In the pre-internet era, Israel made a career from forging letters from stars including Dorothy Parker and Noël Coward. As a new film starring Melissa McCarthy is released, Kathryn Hughes explores why she did it
‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ Review: Melissa McCarthy Gives Her Best Performance as a Forger Who Dreams of Fame — Telluride: Marielle Heller’s charming, melancholic look at writer Lee Israel’s misguided scheme finally helps McCarthy deepen her brand.
Melissa McCarthy to Play Novelist and Literary Forger Lee Israel (EXCLUSIVE): Melissa McCarthy will star in Fox Searchlight’s adaptation of Lee Israel’s memoir “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” with “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” director Marielle…
She Says It’s True, Her Memoir of Forging: Lee Israel forged more than 400 letters from Noël Coward, Dorothy Parker and other literary celebrities, a criminal career she recounts in her book, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
Lee Israel, a Writer Proudest of Her Literary Forgeries, Dies at 75: Ms. Israel composed and sold hundreds of letters that she said had been written by Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, Lillian Hellman and others.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? vs the True Story of Lee Israel’s Letters: We fact check the Can You Forgive Me? movie against the true story of literary forger Lee Israel and her letters.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? Reveals a New Side of Melissa McCarthy: In Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Lee Israel’s memoir, Melissa McCarthy plays one of the most winning anti-heroines in years.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? Reveals a New Side of Melissa McCarthy: In Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Lee Israel’s memoir, Melissa McCarthy plays one of the most winning anti-heroines in years.
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Leonore “Lee” Israel (December 3, 1939 – December 24, 2014) was an american author . her profile of Katharine Hepburn ran in the November 1967 edition of Esquire magazine . Israel’s magazine-writing career continued into the 1970s and 1980s . she published biographies of actress Tallulah Bankhead and game-show panelist Dorothy Kilgallen . the book was well received upon author was unable to speak with her before she died in 2014 . “i accepted the offer though I didn’t give a shit about her warts,” she said . in 1985, Lauder wrote an autobiography that her publisher timed to coincide with Israel’s book . in the book, Israel discredited Lauder’s public statements that she was born into aristocracy timothy stanley: after failure, Israel’s career went into decline, compounded by alcoholism . she says to make money, she began forging letters by deceased writers and actors . stan she sold forged works and stolen originals for over a year . a nol coward expert said coward would not have referenced homosexual activities so enthusiastically . the sheer abundance of letters being sold by Israel aroused suspicion among autograph collectors, dealers and used bookstore owners . other researchers believe they became suspicious of paper with anachronistic watermarks . the forgeries she was selling to collectors were overlooked by law enforcement . but when an Ernest Hemingway letter was in the archives, it was replaced by a forgery . an investigation showed that Israel had stolen in Israel’s memoir, she cites FBI documents from her case file . she says she waited for Hock to meet her so they could count the cash from a sale he had made . when she exite the two agents on the sidewalk left without arresting her or telling her what was going to happen next . she immediately returned to her apartment and started to destroy all evidence of her crimes . by the time she was served with a federal Israel pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen property in 1993 . she served six months under house arrest and five years of probation . some of her forgeries were still being sold as authentic . “what this is is is a hilarious memoir of a self-described miscreant” a reviewer wrote, “ironically, in a joke the reader will share, we all participate in buying her that meal” in her memoir, she wrote: “i had a brother with whom I had never had much in common” in July 2015, Moore claimed she had been fired from the project . in May 2016, it was confirmed that Melissa McCarthy would play McCarthy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Israel . “Fakes and fortunes: has the time come to forgive literary forger Lee Israel?”. The Guardian.