I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

The film made $24 million by April 1995 and was nominated for Academy Awards in the categories of Best Picture Best Director Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Adapted Screenplay. He graduated from The High School of Music & Art and then earned a B. " But on November 2 1959 he admitted to the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight a United States Congress subcommittee chaired by Arkansas Democrat Oren Harris that he had been given questions and answers in advance of the show.

In 1959 he confessed before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the show Twenty One.