What the Real-Life Marty Supreme Taught Me |
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Guest Essay
By Amy Chozick
Ms. Chozick, a former New York Times reporter, is the author of the forthcoming novel “With Friends Like You.”
Back in 2005, when I was recently out of college and new to New York, one of my closest friends was a 75-year-old self-declared con man named Marty Reisman. Twenty years later, he’s the clear inspiration for the maddening, morally bankrupt, wildly entertaining Ping-Pong prodigy played by Timothée Chalamet in “Marty Supreme.”
We were an odd pair, Marty and me,........