Hoover portrayed himself (filmed from powering) in a cameo, addressing FBI brokers in the 1959 movie The FBI Story. Additionally, Summers claimed that Hoover was buddies with Billy Byars Jr., an alleged baby pornographer and producer of the film The Genesis Children. The novelist William Styron told Summers that he when observed Hoover and Tolson in a California beach front property, in which the director was painting his friend's toenails.