There's some irony for you.
Posted on 03/19/2023 3:02:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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In 1981, Keith, then manager of security at a JC Penney in St. Louis, heard Abagnale speak at an area high school about turning his life around. Keith and a local detective were in the audience. Much of the speech was filled with “technical information regarding bad checks” and it was, to Keith, incorrect.
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As Abagnale’s former speaking agent, Mark Zinder, 66, told the Post, “He was a two-bit criminal. I’m embarrassed that I ever associated with the man.”
Abagnale never pretended to be a professor at Brigham Young or a physician in Georgia. He never posed as a lawyer in the Baton Rouge attorney general’s office.
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As they said in this movie, "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist"
Was thinking about that movie today as I was leaving a hospital visit.
Yeah it was a story that was too good to be true.
He floated a lot of bad checks and BSed his way onto a few flights, but most everything else was fabricated.
OK. His story may have been full of lies but it sure made for a fun movie. Enjoyed it.
Tony Curtis
Frank Abagnale Jr. Lied About His Lifetime of Lies, Sources Claim.
Well what do you know what’s the odds of two knowing Pop Corn?.
The Tony Curtis movie was better.
Isnt this the Tony Curtis movie ???
I think Steven Spielberg made a movie starring Leonardo Decaprio as Frank Abagnale, Jr.
There's some irony for you.
Cons are not heroes.
Leopards don’t change their pajamas, they don’t even wear pajamas.
I hate getting played, but I guess I got a little bit smarter today.
No. The Tony C movie was about a different guy. Walter Delaware or something like that.
No, that movie was about Francisco Waldo Demara.
Yes. Fun to watch. Tom Hanks is in it, too.
The movie was great, and the book was even more outrageous. Then, I read an article that debunked his claims. And now this one...
Other con artists really did pretend to be doctors, etc. But, Abagnale has been pulling the most lucrative con for years.
A fake story about a fake fake is more like it.
By a fake auteur filmmaker.
This is the West, sir.
So a con man conned the world into thinking he was a bigger con man than he was? Whatever. Cute movie, though.
If this Abagnale had run for office as a Demonrat, he’d be President today.
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