Jerry Stahl

Jerry Stahl (1953-) is a novelist, screenwriter and ex-heroin user. He has written episodes of thirtysomething, Moonlighting, ALF, Twin Peaks and , and co-wrote the screenplay of Bad Boys II. Permanent Midnight, his autobiography, was adapted into a movie starring Ben Stiller, and Stahl also wrote a fictional autobiography of legendary movie comedian Roscoe Arbuckle called I, Fatty. He has made cameo appearances in the films Permanent Midnight (as a Doctor) and Zoolander (as a reporter).
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