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“Thank you for nominating ‘Witness’ as one of the best pictures of 1985.”
The Hollywood Reporter ad began like another piece of studio Oscar puffery. But the author was actually self-described “Glendale Moviegoer” Keith B. Fahey.
Fahey took out the $535 ad “because I knew I would forever regret it if I failed to act.” But he owned up to a bit of self-aggrandizing as well: A word processor by profession (who did some temporary work last year at Paramount, “Witness’s” studio), he’s also a closet fiction writer, hoping an agent might take notice.
No such luck yet. But “Witness” producer Ed Feldman and co-writer William Kelley both called Fahey to say thanks.
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