Can You Ever Forgive Me is the title of a movie that made me think of Hardy Rodentstock and our fave, Rudy the K.It is very much based on a true story about a woman named Lee Israel.
In it, a grumpy alcoholic writer of show business biographies steals and then forges letters written by famous show business personalities like Noel Coward.
In the end, she gets caught…but not before she disposes of all the vintage typewriters and other bits of evidence. She is sentenced to five years probation and a series of meetings with the folks at AA. No jail time. She writes a best selling tell all story that gets a great reviews from the NY Times. We see a scene in which a dealer shows Lee one of her own forgeries…When she tells him it’s something she wrote,via a forged letter from the dead author, he does nothing.Hmm, sound familiar?? Other letters are incorporated into biographies.
I wonder if Rudy has seen this movie in the big house and what he thinks…how come I’m here and she went to rehab??