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...hoax, which had once seemed a thing of dazzling design and theatrical performance, thumped toward an anticlimax. Last week Clifford Irving's elaborate production, the false autobiography of Howard Hughes, was replayed in lumpy, legalistic prose as two grand juries in New York indicted Irving and his wife Edith. One of the juries also indicted their burly collaborator, Writer-Researcher Richard Suskind...
...sentences of more than 100 years in prison for each defendant. But if the three plead guilty this week and can return the $750,000 they extracted from McGraw-Hill, there is a chance that Irving may receive a light sentence and serve as little as six months, with Edith getting a suspended sentence in return for cooperation with authorities and Suskind being sent up for a short stretch in a state prison...
...Sherwoods have not one but two TV sets, and soon the face of Nina van Pallandt, Irving's elegant traveling companion in Mexico, blossoms on both screens. Edith leans forward to watch with aggressive intentness. "She's going to be on David Frost and David Susskind," someone says. Marmon: "Will she sing or talk?" Sher wood: "She'll sing. She can't talk. She's too stupid...
Everyone in the room cheers and congratulates Partnow. Edith kisses him and asks for a copy. The talk turns to how poetry can be brought into the courtroom proceedings. Edith vows to recite Partnow's poem instead of saying " 'No comment.' That's so cold and sterile. Just because you're accused, you don't have to act like you're in jail." "Maury [Nessen, the Irvings' attorney] won't like it," jokes Cliff...
Waldman wants to take pictures of Cliff and Edith, which he knows he can sell. "Oh, let him go ahead," says Edith. She poses behind Cliff, puts her long blonde hair down over his face, snuggles him. Finally the Irvings go back to their own apartment in the hotel. Sherwood: "He is a poet and writer, and I don't care what the facts are. Cliff is telling the truth." Valdi agrees emphatically. Lester and Hyde are not so sure...