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"That came from a true report about a guy who'd been using his grandfather's pistol," he says.
The failure of the notionally Christian worlds of Russia and Mississippi to be in any way sufficient to the occasion of Christ among them would be a true report always and everywhere.
Asked at one point about the merits of a (true) report in the Mail that Grant had fathered a "love child," Dacre parried that Grant had invited such attention by placing himself in the public eye.
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"Me You Them," directed by Andrucha Waddington and inspired by a true story reported on Brazilian television, is itself an improbable mélange of rural neorealism, soap opera and sexual comedy.
This man is the hero, or perhaps the antihero, of a true story, as reported by Kurt Eichenwald in his 2000 book of the same title (although unadorned by exclamation point).
Various commentators over the years have used her assertions against her (there is more evidence supporting them than contradicting them), either to claim that she lied or to deny her skills as a literary artist, but claiming to be merely reporting a true story is a standard novelist's assertion.
With the intrinsic irony of the setup and the peculiarity of the outcome, it would come off as a tall tale, except for one thing: it's based on a true story that was reported in Texas Monthly by the journalist Skip Hollandsworth, who then collaborated with Linklater on the screenplay.
Here's where it's important to point out that True Story is a true story, so watching the reporting that goes into writing the book True Story is a something of a truth-seeking ouroboros.
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