Excerpt from Liane Bonin: As unlikely as it seems, "Man on the Moon" doesn't rule out the possibility that Andy Kaufman, who died of lung cancer in 1984, may have pulled off the ultimate prank of faking his own death.?"Andy was the boy who cried wolf," says producer Stacey Sher.?"At his funeral, people were poking the body.?That's why nobody's prepared to say with 100 percent certainty that he's gone." Bob Zmuda, the writer who helped Kaufman concoct his most outrageous stunts, says there are some weird coincidences that have helped keep the rumor afloat.?After Andy had a conversation with Zmuda about a fake death stunt, Andy went to see John Moffitt, the producer of (the late-night TV show) 'Fridays.' He made John swear on a stack of bibles to keep his secret, then said, 'I'm planning the greatest hoax of all time.?I'm planning my own death.'" Read more.
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