Word: phantasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most interesting member of the ring, however, was hardly more than a phantasm of pseudonyms: Von Houry / Herzog / Cassou / Hoffman / Raynal / Dory-Boutin. Actually he was a man named Elmyr de Hory, the artist responsible for counterfeiting the countless drawings, gouaches, watercolors and oils sold as Picassos, Matisses, Modiglianis, Braques, Derains, Monets, Légers, Dufys, Renoirs, Vlamincks and Van Dongens. Fake! is basically Elmyr de Hory's story as told to Novelist Clifford Irving (The Valley, The 38th Floor). It is an exuberant collage of skillful innuendo, succulent gossip, bitchery and elusive truths...
...grotesque phantasm of further mutilations follows. The Gnadiges Fraulein is a deaf ex-diva (Leighton) who loses one eye and then the other to the coca-loony birds of the Florida Keys, whom she battles for throwaway fish from incoming sloops. A cocaloony bird struts around on stage looking rather like a giant pelican with a Ph.D., and an Indian in a red, white and blue monokini war-whoops things up. The locale is "the Big Dormitory," and on the porch of this flophouse rock two marijuana-smoking harpies, a slatternly clown (Kate Reid), who runs the joint...