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Oh Karlheinz! The Musical

Posted on December 6, 2007 by Philip Preville

Just to throw my voice upon the heap: Karlheinz Schreiber is a con artist, and last week’s column by Rick Salutin nailed his performance on the witness stand thus far. Watching him on TV has reminded me of my own recent run-in with a con artist. Schreiber’s rambling is deliberate; he is refusing to tell a straight narrative because he’s trying to suck us into something, and he’s going to make sure he has us all hooked before he coughs up anything of substance. If he pulls this off it’ll be a grand-scale con for the ages. Salutin says Eric Petersen might try to turn Schreiber into a one-man play, but I say make it a musical. No better way to immortalize a song and dance man.

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Philip Preville

Veteran freelance writer Philip Preville lived much of his life in Montreal and Edmonton before he was lured, like so many Torontonians before him, by the promise of more work and a better living. A National Magazine Award winner and former Canadian Journalism Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College, Preville writes Toronto Life’s politics column. He lives with his wife and one-year-old son in Riverdale, just close enough to the Don Valley Parkway that he can hear it when he steps outside his house—but just far enough away that it doesn’t keep him awake at night. On his office wall hangs a 1938–39 press pass belonging to his grandfather, Elias Gannon, who wrote for the Montreal Star.


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