John Hargrave

From Yahoo News - Nobody's Fool:

While some of his pranks seem to cross the line, Hargrave believes that making people uncomfortable also gets them to think.

Take what he calls his “Celebrity Sincerity Test,” in which he wrote a letter to eleven celebrities, posing as a terminally ill 11-year-old girl.

Some celebs, like Angelina Jolie and Oprah Winfrey, didn’t respond at all. Others like Bono and Jerry Lewis were quite generous, sending signed photographs and T-shirts. But jailed serial killer Charles Manson sent a package containing three hand-carved wooden keepsake boxes. One had an engraved pink heart on top, another, the word “Love” with the message “From: Manson” carved inside the lid.

“The most sincere celebrity,” says Hargrave, ”was the man with blood on his hands.”

I liked the whole article, but I thought that was particularly interesting.