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> Hi All,
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> I asked Chris Bentley (author of "The Complete Guide to Gerry Anderson's UFO") about
> the Gito Santana/Stuart Myers situation, and here is his reply:
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> Hi Marc,
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> It seems that Gito has met with Stuart Myers and has been able to establish
> that Myers only signed the UFO Alien cards because his friend Darren Epstein
> (managing director of Cards Inc) asked him to and paid him to do it.
>
> Myers apparently has no recollection of working on UFO, does not recall what
> it was about, does not know where it was filmed, nor remembers ever wearing
> an Alien costume. By his own admission he is a jobbing actor who mainly
> appears in things as an 'extra', yet Equity, the British actors' union, has
> no record of him. I gather that he told Gito that Darren Epstein had saidto
> him that no one (ie, buyers of the card) would question whether it was
> really Myers in the Alien costume or not, since it was impossible to see the
> real actor's face and there was no record of who it really was.
>
> Following on the heels of Cards Inc's other frauds with the costume cards-
> cuttings of material that they claim are genuine pieces of costumes worn by
> Ed Bishop, Martin Landau, Roger Moore and Patrick McGoohan, but are actually
> no such thing - I am quite prepared to believe that Darren Epstein and his
> company would deliberately perpetrate this additional fraud with the
> autograph cards. Trading cards are clearly a very lucrative business for
> them (the company turned over 20 million pounds - about 36 million dollars -
> last year) and they seem to be quite prepared to do anything to squeeze any
> extra cash from gullible fans.
>
> Gito tells me the matter is now in the hands of Equity who will, on Gito's
> behalf, be taking legal action against Cards Inc over the Alien card.
>
> Kind regards,
> Chris
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