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| C. David Heymann's Lies |
| 2014-09-07 |
| Another book exposed as a fraud. From TFA: In May 2012, Heymann fell dead in the lobby of his New York City apartment building, but that presented no problem for his publisher, according to Emily Bestler, who edited his last four books. She told Newsweek during a phone conversation in July that Heymann was “a true professional” who “finished the book before he died.” Still, Bestler said, she paid to have the book thoroughly fact-checked just to make sure all was in order. Nothing troubling turned up, she told me, not even a misspelled name. Bestler's mood changed when I told her I wanted to discuss numerous fabrications Newsweek had uncovered in Joe and Marilyn. She cut me off in mid-sentence, shouting that such questions were improper because she had thought I was calling only to ask about the marketing of a book by a dead author. She then declared that “this is getting ugly” and hung up. When Paul Olewski, a spokesman for CBS's Simon and Schuster publishing division, called me back, he was very polite but said he did not want to hear what Newsweek had found about any of the books by Heymann CBS had published, and that Bestler would not agree to an interview with Newsweek. It's too bad CBS didn't want to hear more, because all the celebrity bios Heymann wrote for them and other publishers' "dealing with JFK, Bobby Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe'"are riddled with errors and fabrications. An exhaustive cataloging of those mistakes would fill a book, so a sampling from his long career will have to suffice. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 CBS huh? "Fake but true" Dan Rather's former employer? Say it ain't so! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-09-07 14:54 |
| #1 ...If there is any justice at all, there are legions of lawyers about to lay down truckloads of paper on Mr. Heymann's estate and the nice Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2014-09-07 08:23 |