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Joe Gould's Secret is a 1965 book by Joseph Mitchell, based upon his two New Yorker profiles, "Professor Sea Gull" (1942) and "Joe Gould's Secret" (1964). Mitchell's work details the true story of the eponymous Joe Gould, a writer who lived in Greenwich Village in the first half of the 20th century.
- Joseph Mitchell
- 1965
May 26, 2000 · Joe Mitchell, a New Yorker writer, befriends Joe Gould, a homeless author who claims to have recorded the world's conversations. But Mitchell soon doubts Gould's claims and uncovers his secret.
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- Drama
- Stanley Tucci
- 2000-05-26
Joe Gould's Secret is a 2000 American drama film directed by Stanley Tucci. The screenplay by Howard A. Rodman is based on the magazine article Professor Sea Gull and the book Joe Gould's Secret by Joseph Mitchell.
Joe Gould was an odd and penniless and unemployable little man who came to the city in 1916 and ducked and dodged and held on as hard as he could for over thirty-five years.
Feb 11, 2014 · Joe Gould’s Secret, Joe Mitchell’s classic portrait of an astute but deluded bohemian in postwar Greenwich Village, has been picked over for half a century by literary critics,...
Apr 14, 2000 · A film about the New Yorker writer Joe Mitchell and his relationship with the bohemian Joe Gould, who claimed to be writing an oral history of New York. The film reveals the hidden secret of Mitchell's life and his connection to Gould's project.
Stanley Tucci takes you into the poignant and sometimes humorous world of New York City in the 1940s. "Joe Gould's Secret" is the true story of two men, one of whom would tell the other's...
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- Comedy, Drama
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