VITAMEDIAS
Filming glass's ceiling: Hayden Christensen brings a disgraced writer to the screen
Stephen Glass is the hotshot young magazine writer who fabricated incidents in 27 out of 41 stories he penned for The New Republic magazine before he was busted in 1998. He scammed Rolling Stone, Harper's and George, too, inventing scenarios and sources from scratch, even building a fake Web site and falsifying voice mail messages to foil fact checkers.
When Glass's fictions were exposed, the ethical breach shocked journalists. But it fascinated, too, because Glass is what we love most: a great story