him up to brussels to cover the headquarters of the european union. once there, he spent the early 1990s doing what he did best, he made things up. they filed reports about how the autocratic foreigners running the eu were making harebrained rules about what the uk could and couldn t do. things like the shape of britain s strawberries and how british cheese could be made, and making good old fashioned english fishermen wear hair nets. there was even a column about the eumaking condoms too small. none of this was true but he seemed to think it was all great fun. he told an interviewer quite, i was just chucking these rocks over the garden wall and listening to the amazing crash from the greenhouse next door over in england. everything i wrote from brussels was having this amazing, explosive effect on the conservative party. it really gave me this i suppose rather weird sense of power, end quote. his right-wing newspaper would splash its headlines over the front page of the secret evil p
0 have a long laughs and i get respect to sometimes. sometimes. we are sending much, much respect and gratitude tonight to this incredible actor and as long successful career. james caan gone at 82. and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. i will see he was fired from his very first job for lying. it was his first job as a newspaper reporter in london and he got caught making up quote. the more right-wing newspaper didn t see that as disqualifying so they snatched him up to brussels to cover the headquarters of the european union. once there, he spent the early 1990s doing what he did best, he made things up. they filed reports about how the autocratic foreigners running the eu were making harebrained rules about what the uk could and couldn t do. things like the shape of britain s strawberries and how british cheese could be made, and maki