Word: suskind
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...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...
...David Suskind: "What's Good, What's Bad, What's New at the Movies?" Discussion with Vincent Canby (N.Y. Times film critic), Peter Bogdanovich (director of "The Last Picture Show"). William Friedkin (director of "The French Connection"). Eleanor Perry (screenwriter of "Diary of a Mad Housewife"). Penelope Gilliat, and Paul Zimmerman (Newsweek film critic), 9, March 11. Chan...
...Prune. Through his lawyer, Irving late last week admitted in the U.S. Attorney's office in New York City that his baroquely detailed scenario was a fraud. Irving's lawyer, Maurice R. Nessen, had hurried to the Federal Courthouse for the conference after Richard Suskind, a writer and researcher who had worked with Irving on the manuscript, refused to back Irving's story. In exchange for immunity from prosecution, Suskind said he was willing to testify that contrary to his earlier affidavit, he had never seen Hughes; Hughes had never offered him that organic prune...
Then there was Richard Suskind. a corpulent writer and researcher who lives on the nearby island of Majorca. Irving hired Suskind-for $50,000 -to do some of the research for the Hughes book, and he is the only person besides Irving who supposedly met Howard Hughes during the project. It was allegedly a brief encounter in a Palm Springs, Calif., motel room where. Suskind has sworn. Hughes offered him an organic prune. Suskind will testify this week in Manhattan. Others who drifted in and out of the Ibiza circle included Robert Kirsch, a longtime friend of Irving...