"Domestic football was a total mess, " explains Alex Bellos, author of "Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life" as well as the ghost writer of Pele's 2006 autobiography.

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The former James Bond says that he was very aware of it while watching "The Ghost Writer" at Berlin because Polanski told him about the precise effect he wanted.

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After all, that's the work of the ghost writer.

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The Ghost in question is a young, broke, hard-drinking hack writer (Ewan McGregor) who signs on to rewrite the memoirs of a retired, Tony Blair-like Prime Minister, Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan).

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