Broadway Books Best-Selling Memoir, Catch Me If You Can, Soon to be a DreamWorks Motion Picture Starring Tom Hanks and Leo DiCaprio and Directed by Steve Spielberg.Entertainment, Feature & Book Review Editors NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Aug. 31, 2001 The Oscar-winning actor, Tom Hanks Noun 1. Tom Hanks - United States film actor (born in 1956) Hanks, Thomas J. Hanks , is in negotiations with DreamWorks Pictures to topline "Catch Me If You Can" -- the film version of the best-selling memoir of the same name by Frank Abagnale Frank William Abagnale, Jr. (born April 27, 1948) is a former check con artist, forger and imposter who, for five years in the 1960s, passed bad checks worth more than $2.5 million in 26 countries. During this time, he used eight aliases — even more to cash bad checks. Jr., the international con man, who as a counterfeiter, impostor, and escape artist, cashed $2.5 million worth of bad checks between 1964 and 1970 -- before his 21st birthday. In his brief but notorious criminal career Abagnale passed himself off as an airline pilot, a physician, a stockbroker, a professor and the associate attorney general of the state of Louisiana CODE, OF LOUISIANA. In 1822, Peter Derbigny, Edward Livingston, and Moreau Lislet, were selected by the legislature to revise and amend the civil code, and to add to it such laws still in force as were not included therein. . Catch Me if You Can was a national bestseller when it first published in the 1970s and was recently brought back to life when Broadway Books reissued it in August 2000. In the book, Abagnale spins the yarn that really was his life. Eventually Abagnale did time for his crimes, but Lucky Lady stuck by him and he was sprung from prison in a one-time-only fashion: the FBI needed his help catching con artists. Today, Abagnale heads a successful fraud consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a and instructs law enforcement officers and federal agents at the FBI National Academy on the subjects of forgery, counterfeiting, and fraud. Also, he is the author of the upcoming book, The Art of the Steal: How to Protect Yourself and Your Business from Fraud, America's #1 Crime, to be published by Broadway Books on October 9, 2001. The movie version of Catch Me If You Can, which is scheduled for release next summer, will star Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. DiCaprio as Frank Abagnale Jr. Tom Hanks will portray FBI agent Joe Shaye, who gained notoriety for having tracked down and captured Abagnale. Steven Spielberg Noun 1. Steven Spielberg - United States filmmaker (born in 1947) Spielberg will direct. If you are interested in an interview with Frank Abagnale Jr. or a review copy of either of his books, Catch Me If You Can or The Art of the Steal, please do not hesitate to call David Drake
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