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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Larry Beinhart is
an American author. He is best known as the author of the political and
detective novel American Hero, which was adapted for the
political-parody film Wag the Dog. Directed by Barry Levinson, it
starred Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, William H. Macy,
Denis Leary, Kirsten Dunst, Woody Harrelson, and Willie Nelson. The New
Yorker called the novel "a tour de force of satirical fiction." Beinhart
is a Fulbright Fellow. He's won the Edgar Award, the Gold Dagger, the
Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and been shortlisted for the Edgar
two more times, and for the Shamus Award. "Salvation Boulevard," his
most recent novel, is currently in production with Pierce Brosnan, Greg
Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Marisa Tomei, Isabelle Fuhrman, Ed Harris,
and Jim Gaffigan. The director is George Ratliff, the producer is Cathy
Schulman. It is scheduled for a 2011 release.
