Screens - Is the Debunker Also the Bunker?
Brian Flemming — fake doc-man nonpareil — might just know too much.
I’m late to say this, but he has an excellent analysis of lonelygirl15’s videos. indeed. huh.
But is it too excellent?*
Someone named “Bill Cosby,” on a break from his daily rounds preaching responsible fatherhood (or maybe — gasp! — he emailed me under a fake name!), has decided that Flemming is the big deus ex machina here. (Bill Cosby also goes by the name Xanax.)


*IMDb :: Boards :: Danielle (2007): Danielle is very much in the works, however. It's the story of a devout Christian high-school girl who comes into possession of evidence that Jesus never existed. This new title will help us focus attention on what the movie is actually about, and also appeal to one of the film's main target audiences -- people Danielle's age, who I think are important to reach with the message of the film. I hope to reveal more later in the year, as we work full-time on the film and generate some stories to tell.

end of Flemming's jumpstheshark post:
Adapting the epistolary novel form to YouTube still has some promise, however. I'm certainly ready to be fooled by another one. Or perhaps to perpetrate one.
Unless I really did perpetrate this one and I'm just trying to distance myself from it because it's now failing.
Just kidding. You know me. I'd never try to fool anybody like that. 11:26 AM
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-No idea if Flemming’s the guy–though the wording of his posts is certainly interesting. But the general idea that a small group of performers/filmmakers is behind it squares with some of what I’ve been hearing: http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archiv es/2006/08/lonelygirl15_th_1.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_ fineonmedia

= Judging from the comments of more than one person (and, though I'm sorry to add to the layers of murk here, each refused to talk to me if I quoted them), a likely scenario goes something like this: Lonelygirl15 is not "real," but, contrary to some early speculation, the videos are not part of a viral marketing campaign dreamed up by some major advertiser, nor some music marketing company, nor a promotional stunt set up by one of the Viacoms or NBCs of the world. Rather, it's the product of a coterie of smart and not-yet-massively-famous performers (and, perhaps, others). These people, or their representatives, have had discussions with at least one major company regarding a deal to produce what I take to be short-form serial stuff on the Web. And said coterie may be closing in on (or has already gotten) representation from a major talent agency.

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