Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian L. Friedman


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The result was Speedily deleted as obvious hoaxes-- the both of them. Amazing that such shooting stars, having accomplished so muchshould not show up in any media, news, verifiable sources. Dloh cierekim  21:50, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Brian L. Friedman

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If we are to believe this, at age 14 the precocious lad was making "homemade adult films" which so impressed a producer "Max Glasgow" that he was taken to California where he made the $47m Santa and the Giant Elves, never released. He spent 2003 (age 15) pitching to film companies, 2004 (age 16) producing unsuccesful hip-hop recordings, in 2005 (age 17) made his breakout film, the "underground classic" Beach Bums Hitten the Stip and by 2007 (age 19) directed a "remake of Forrest Gump" said to have been released in November 2007.

IMDb knows nothing about any of this. It has nine Brian Friedmans, but none of them match. Nor does Amazon know anything of the first two books cited. I didn't bother looking further.

On the Youtube interview, "Friedman" says he turned down Titanic 2 to do Forrest Gump 2, and will soon be directing Lord of the Rings 4. I give him some credit for managing not to giggle.

I bundle with this the entry for the producer "Max Glasgow" said to have discovered Friedman, who is also unknown to IMDb. Article introduced the same day by the same user whose only contributions these are.

Delete both as transparent hoax. JohnCD (talk) 21:18, 20 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete both, theyre obvious hoaxes. Lots of detail and big claims without any sourcing sets off alarm bells. 1ForTheMoney (talk) 21:20, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete G3 both as obvious hoaxes, so tagged. The nom quite clearly points out that there are way too many holes in the information for this to possibly be legit. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 21:25, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete all three Added Santa And The Giant Elves to the AfD. DarkAudit (talk) 21:41, 20 March 2008 (UTC)


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