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Liza Minnelli Autopen - Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!

Starting this separate thread to track the Liza Minnelli autopen situation.

Signed copies of her new book, Kids Wait Till You Hear This!, include autopen signatures.

You may also visit the previously existing Liza Minnelli thread for more information.

https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/liza-minelli-kids-w...

Feel free to post your examples or any info on the return situation.

Overlay Video 1 (click title to play video)

Note how “Liza” matches up (click title)

Overlay Video 2

-First round, note how the “Love” appears to overlay nearly exactly

-Second round, the circle of the smiley face appears to overlap closely, and the L is starting to line up as well

-Third round, the Z and the A in “Liza” appear to lineup closely.

Overlay Video 3

Notice how almost all of the smiley face lines up on this one

-With a slight adjustment, notice how the Z and the A start to align as well

Overlay Video 4

Watch the top of the smiley face. All I am doing is bringing the circle of the smiley face into line. Watch how the Z falls into place. Watch how the top loop of the L falls into place. The “A” is a little off and also the “I” but you can see how they seem to be off by a very small and consistent distance.

Overlay Video 5

Watch how the “OVE” lines up, exactly on two examples received by the same person:

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Some of the segments are individually lining up….yet the two signatures appear different on face and when overlaid as a whole.

Example:

First, notice how the L lines up in “Love”:

Make a slight adjustment that then brings the “ove” into line:

Slightly adjust again to bring the L of “Liza” into line:

Slightly adjust again to bring the Z and A into alignment (also notice the “I” and the comma):

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It appears that the autopen signatures in these books were generated by an advanced autopen machine that can produce subtle variations in letter structure and placement that would disguise the use of autopen. Please see this video to learn more on how this works:

https://youtu.be/pROf6q-9POU

A thread has also been created to make others aware of this type of autopen usage and discuss if interested:

https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/beware-of-the-new-a...

Tags: Autopen, Hear, Kids, Liza, Minnelli, This!, Till, Wait, You

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Permalink Reply by JGLondon 5 hours ago

That's a good question. This is the placement on mine,

Also I think it's interesting the signature is on a completely blank page. Not a title page, or even a sheet that mentions her name or says 'signed by the author'.

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Permalink Reply by JIMMY JAMES 1 hour ago

Hey Matt M. you must be dizzy and seeing these Liza exemplars in your sleep like I am.

The video of the varying template high end autopen that I had cited and was posted by

Jason H confirms what we've speculated from the start.

Liza definitely used an autopen to "sign" these books.

I feel that her script was broken into various puzzle pieces/templates that could be randomly chosen and put together in many combinations. The L in Love, The ove in Love, The L and . in Liza, the Z in Liza, the a in Liza, and finally those tell tale smiley faces.

Now add a little "bump" here and there as Eric Keith Longo suggested and you've got a multitude of "autographs" that would (and are) fooling the unsuspecting buyers, collectors and fans.

BUYER BEWARE, SHAME!

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Permalink Reply by Matt M. 1 hour ago

Lol yeah - when I finally closed my eyes last night, I was seeing flashes of overlapping L‘s.

Totally agree about the individual components like you were saying. I’m going to try and focus on that today, matching up individual components. I’d really like to find matches in one of the Premiere examples. With that, I’d be interested to see what JSA has to say.

I also think some media attention as an order. I emailed.Variety, who picked up and ran with the Dylan story, but haven’t seen any articles yet online. Anyone who wants to help get the word out, feel free to do so. I feel like this would help inform others who are not following this site, and also give us some leverage on the returns/refunds.

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Permalink Reply by Matt M. 1 hour ago

Anybody who has one from Premiere and hasn’t posted it, could you post a picture for me to use? I’ve got some, but just trying to build a collection of those. Again, I’m trying not to use eBay and would prefer just to have members post their own. Some of those bookplate ones would be good.

Anybody who hasn’t posted their example from Barnes, Waterstones, etc., feel free to do so if you’re interested in helping! I think I’ve got plenty, but I’m still interested to try new ones.

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Permalink Reply by michelle 1 hour ago

I did speak to waterstones head office about the autopens but they were still maintaining that the books had been handsigned by her

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Permalink Reply by Matt M. 1 hour ago

Interesting, good to know. I was wondering where things stood for those who had initiated the return process. I’ve been so busy that I haven’t even done anything about my own copy. I was kind of hoping that this would gain sufficient attention to make it an easy process.

This probably won’t gain the level of attention of the Dylan situation, as these books were the same price as the unsigned editions. (Of course, the Dylan autopen books had a hefty markup).

So we’re going to run into that – we didn’t pay any extra for the “autograph” in this case. But of course, I would not have bought it if it wasn’t for the signature.