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1. www.cbsnews.com › news › the-pretender-christianThe Pretender: The case of Christian Longo - CBS News

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   Mar 29, 2015 · The real Michael Finkel, freshly fired for his fictitious feature in The New York Times magazine, needed some way to crawl back from rock bottom. "Mike was empty. He was a little lost," said ...

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3. www.amazon.com › True-Story-Murder-Memoir-Culpa › dpTrue Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa: Finkel, Michael ...

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   May 24, 2005 · In True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa, disgraced New York Times writer Michael Finkel recounts the story of the murderer who assumed his identity and examines the reasons for his own fall from journalistic grace, in a memoir that is gripping, perceptive, and bizarre.

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4. www.theatlantic.com › national › archiveTrue Story: Christian Longo Versus James Franco - The Atlantic

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   Apr 24, 2015 · Longo is played by James Franco in the new film True Story. The movie is based on a book by Mike Finkel, a former writer for The New York Times Magazine, played by Jonah Hill.

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   Apr 7, 2015 · When New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo–who has taken on Finkel's identity–his investigation morphs into an unforgettable game of cat and mouse. True Story weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, deceit, and redemption, following Finkel's relentless pursuit of the shocking truth.

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   • Author: Michael Finkel
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   Apr 17, 2015 · True Story: Directed by Rupert Goold. With Jonah Hill, James Franco, Felicity Jones, Maria Dizzia. When disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo - who has taken on Finkel's identity - his investigation morphs into a game of cat-and-mouse.

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   • Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama

   • Director: Rupert Goold
   • Release Date: 2015-04-17

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     Inside the Mind of NYT Best-Selling Author: Mike Finkel | Adventures, Art Heists, and Identity Theft

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   Apr 15, 2015 · Back in 2002, journalist Michael Finkel was at the lowest point in his career. He'd recently been fired by The New York Times Magazine for creating a composite character for a story about...

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   Aug 15, 2006 · The improbable but true story of a man accused of murdering his entire family and the journalist he impersonated while on the run. In 2001, Mike Finkel was on top of the world: young, talented, and recently promoted to a plum job at the New York Times Magazine.

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    Who is Michael Finkel?

    • Author Michael Finkel's curiosity had taken him to the far corners of the globe. But now, it was about to take him into the heart of darkness. In 2001, Finkel was a prize-winning feature writer for the New York Times. "...every story was extremely thrilling to me," he told "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher.

    The Pretender: The case of Christian Longo - CBS News

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    Who plays Michael Finkel in the informant?

    • The Informant! Jonah Hill plays Michael Finkel, a recently terminated New York Times journalist who's struggling for work after a story gone wrong. One day, he receives a phone call from a man regarding an FBI Most Wanted individual named Christian Longo, who's been captured and claimed to be living as Finkel.

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    Does Finkel's 'true crime' really pay off?

    • Finkel’s dogged pursuit of the true story pays off only at the end, in the gripping trial scenes in which Longo, after a lifetime of deception, finally tells the whole truth. Or so he says. The top True Crime books curated by Amazon Book Review Editor, Chris Schluep. See his picks.

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    How did Longo and Finkel meet?

    • Several weeks later, Finkel received a collect call from Longo, who agreed to meet with him in person. After that meeting, Longo began writing a series of meticulously handwritten letters. "Each page covered top to bottom, left to right, front to back," said Finkel. The two also scheduled weekly phone calls, calls that Finkel recorded.

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