Hughes 'Hoax,' a tall tale retold

Lasse Hallstrom recently shot a film that retells a decades-old story some of the players would rather forget. In a phone interview, Hallstrom, the highly regarded Swedish director, was clear about one thing: to make a movie about Clifford Irving isn't necessarily to love him.

Irving is still remembered as the writer who nearly pulled off one of the most audacious scams in publishing: an "autobiography" of Howard Hughes, based on in-person interviews of the reclusive billionaire, which was in fact completely bogus.