Eyes wide shut. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.

It was Covent Garden 1992 and a man sashayed into an exclusive nightclub and performance space

called the Groucho Club. A man who seemed like a big deal. So much so that people clamor to talk to

him. He never paid a bill. He never signed a check. His VIP treatment got him backstage access

where he told actors Julie Walters and Patricia Hayes he wanted to use them in one of his upcoming

films. While he had everyone's attention the moment he walked in the door. He soon had their

adoration and respect when he spoke. Maybe, probably even slurred the words, I am Stanley Kubrick.

But this man wasn't who he said he was, not even close. Yet ironically his odd persona

would bring him closer to the reclusive director than he'd ever thought possible. Today we're

talking about the strange life of Alan Conway, better known as the Kubrick Conman. On July 10th,

1934, Eddie Allen Jablowski was born in Whitechapel, London. Later in his life he would tell his

friends he was a Polish Jew who escaped Nazi occupation. But that was far from the reality of his childhood,

which was English and well fairly normal. Well normal except for the fact that Jablowski from

an early age liked to bend the truth. He'd make up falsities about his life, change his name,

and more. At age 13 he was arrested for petty theft. In his early teens Jablowski even changed

his name to Alan Con. A variation on that Conway would eventually be the main alias Jablowski would

settle on. And he lived up to his new name by getting into some scrapes with the law. As he got older,

the lies parlayed themselves into business ventures, both good and bad. And Jablowski started some

small businesses around town. After marrying Eddie Allen Jablowski, now Alan Eddie Conway,

moved his wife and young son Martin to South Africa. But had to keep coming back to London because

his businesses were annoyingly always getting audited. Eventually he moved his family back to Britain

where one of his businesses found success. A travel agency with offices in Harrow,

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