Jerry Stahl

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Jerry Stahl (born 1953) is a novelist, screenwriter and former longtime heroin addict^{[citation needed]}.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2.1 Bibliography 2.2 Filmography 3 References 4 Footnotes 5 External links

[edit] Biography

Stahl has written episodes of thirtysomething, Moonlighting, ALF, Twin Peaks and CSI, and co-wrote the screenplay of Bad Boys II.

His CSI episodes deal with transgressive topics and have been some of the most controversial but also gained some of the highest ratings.^[1] He introduced the dominatrix character Lady Heather who has appeared in a number of episodes, the first of which , "Slaves of Las Vegas", featured viewer discretion advisory warning, due to nudity and sexual content. Stahl has been criticised for his inaccurate portrayal of furries in "Fur and Loathing".^[2] However, while earlier episodes of CSI had been criticised for the treatment of transgender people,^[3] his episode "Ch-Ch-Changes" was highlighted as offering a sensitive portrayal of the topic.^[4] It also got the largest audience to date, 31.5 million, with his "King Baby" being the second most watched that season.^[1] That episode dealt with infantilism and the Parents Television Council declared it was the worst television show of the week.^[5]

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).

Stahl has appeared telling personal stories from his own life at Un-Cabaret and can be heard on the compilation album The Good, The Bad, and the Drugly

[edit] Works

[edit] Bibliography

• Love Without
• Permanent Midnight
• Perv: A Love Story
• Plainclothes Naked
• I, Fatty

[edit] Filmography

Film work includes:

• Bad Boys II (2003)
• Dr. Caligari (1989)

As Herbert W. Day:

• Nightdreams (1981)
• Cafe Flesh (1982)

TV work includes:

• ALF:
  • "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?" (1986)
  • "La Cuckaracha" (1987)
  • "Mind Games" (1989)
• thirtysomething:
  • "Born to Be Mild" (1988)
  • "Politics" (1989)
• Moonlighting:
  • "Plastic Fantastic Lovers" (1989)
  • "Perfetc" (1989)
• Twin Peaks: "Laura's Secret Diary" (1990)
• Northern Exposure: "Soapy Sanderson" (1990)
• CSI:
  • "Justice is Served" (2001)
  • "Slaves of Las Vegas" (2001)
  • "Felonious Monk (2002)
  • "The Hunger Artist" (2002)
  • "Fur and Loathing" (2003)
  • "Getting Off" (2004)
  • "Ch-Ch-Changes" (2004)
  • "King Baby" (2005)
  • "Pirates of the Third Reich" (2006)
  • "Way To Go" (2006)

[edit] References

• Jerry Stahl at the Internet Movie Database
• LA Weekly article
• New Angeles Monthly interview published June 29, 2007

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] External links

• Interview, July 12, 2007