<story><title>‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman lied about his lifetime of lies</title><url>https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/catch-me-if-you-can-conman-frank-abagnale-lied-about-his-lies/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dig1t</author><text>This reminds me of the story from A Scanner Darkly. One of the characters tells a story about a con artist who was pretending to be a famous con artist. His whole shtick was going around to talk shows recounting how he had played all these outlandish characters and conned people out of all kinds of money, in the end the only character he ever played was that of a con artist.&lt;p&gt;Maybe that story was based on the Catch Me If you Can guy, but I think possibly not because A Scanner Darkly came out before that movie.</text></comment>
<story><title>‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman lied about his lifetime of lies</title><url>https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/catch-me-if-you-can-conman-frank-abagnale-lied-about-his-lies/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diego_moita</author><text>Of course, what makes you famous is how good is your &amp;quot;reality distortion field&amp;quot;. No one buys &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot;, people buy &amp;quot;stories&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Steve Jobs never really invented anything but he knew how to play the role.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The Wolf of Wall Street&amp;quot; also invented most of the stuff in the movie&amp;#x2F;book but he knew how to play the role.&lt;p&gt;Buffalo Bill was just an exhibitionist showman that never did anything heroic but he knew how to pretend it.&lt;p&gt;And Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, ...&lt;p&gt;Well, you got the idea...</text></comment>