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Stephen Glass: The True Story
Director Billy Ray hadn't even finished shooting his movie about fabricating journalist Stephen Glass when he read that he was glamorizing a media villain. [...]
The plot first unfolded in the press in 1998. Charles Lane, then the New Republic's editor, fired Glass, then 25, after painstakingly discovering that he had invented a teenage computer hacker -- this after Glass had created a phony Web site for the fictitious company supposedly penetrated by the hacker. Fabrications were found in more than two dozen other New Republic pieces by Glass. [...]
Ray and producer Craig Baumgarten insist the film is faithful to transcribed interviews with the people involved. "We're putting ourselves up to a very difficult standard for a movie," Baumgarten says. "We can't falsify or invent or homogenize the story in any way." [mas aparentemente não é isso que acontece...]