Summary: This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jarod is a Pretender, a genius whose exceptional intelligence allows him to assume various identities at will. He was taken from his parents at an early age and brought up in a think tank, where he believed his mind was being used to benefit mankind. When he learned that the simulations he solved were being sold to the highest bidder, he escaped. Now on the run, he searches for his true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PRESummary: Taken from his home and raised with other genius children at a mysterious place called The Centre, Jarod who with the uncanny ability to pretend and easily assume the identity of any person, escapes as an adult in order to use his abilities to help the public while being followed by his mentor and childhood friend from The Centre.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PREWilliams, Rachel DeLoache
Summary: Anna Delvey, a self-proclaimed German heiress, was generous, worldly and ambitious. Then she asked her new friend Williams to join her on an all-expenses-paid trip to Marrakech at the five-star La Mamounia hotel. Anna's credit cards mysteriously stopped working, and Anna asked Williams to begin fronting costs-- for flights, meals and shopping, and, finally, for their $7,500-per-night private...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 WILJarrow, Gail
Summary: "After millions of people died during World War I and from the 1918 influenza pandemic, the popularity of spiritualism soared. Desperate to communicate with their dead loved ones, the bereaved fell prey to extortion by fraudulent mediums and fortune-tellers. But magician Harry Houdini wasn't fooled. He recognized the scammers' methods as no more than conjurer tricks. Angered by the way people...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 793.8092 JARCrowl, Thomas
Summary: "Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and 'one of the top 10 imposters of all time,' according to Time Magazine. Born Elizabeth Bigley in 1857 in Canada, she first operated as Madame Devere, a European clairvoyant, and in 1890 was arrested for defrauding a Toledo bank of $20,000. In the mid-1890s, while continuing her work as a medium under the name...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Kent State University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 CROCercas, Javier
Summary: An elderly man in his nineties, living in Barcelona, a Holocaust survivor who gave hundreds of speeches, granted dozens of interviews, received important national honors, and even moved government officials to tears. But in May 2005, Marco was exposed as a fraud: he was never in a Nazi concentration camp.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018