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	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Jerry Stahl: Outside of my memoir, my two novels are autobiographical without essentially having anything to do with me. I would say the emotional truths are shared between author and character, but details, experiences,etc...
		Jerry Stahl: I had a friend who paid for medical school by being a dominatrix, and she told me she had a sitting federal prosecutor who paid her to call him that while he licked her boots.
		Jerry Stahl: I've lived in NY and LA and as for being supportive of creative work, I'd say it's the landscape inside your head that matters, if you know what I mean.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/01/author_stahl112801.htm (2525 words)

	World of Owen at Wilson-Brothers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Producer Jane Hamsher was sent a copy of Stahl's book when it was published in 1995, and she passed it along to David Veloz, a former USC classmate with whom she and her producing partner, Don Murphy, had worked on Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" in 1994.
		Stahl was shown early drafts of the screenplay during pre-production and he worked closely with Ben Stiller as the actor prepared for this project.
		Stahl was even cast in a small role in the film adaptation of his autobiography, playing a doctor at a methadone clinic where Jerry seeks help.
	www.wilson-brothers.com /owen/perprodnote.html (2961 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online
		Stahl is a writer who moves to LA ("the only town with a 24-hour a day self-help station") and gets married to Sandra (Elizabeth Hurley in a wonderful performance), a TV executive in need of a green card.
		Stahl shoots heroin to enable his writing, to get him through married life, to cope with his job, to attend the birth of his daughter and to just get by - heroin is his fuel.
		Whether Stahl is hallucinating that Chompers is trying to steal his heroin, hopped-up on crack while meeting his future agent (Janeane Garofalo) or sober and recounting his battle with heroin to Maury Povitch, Stiller gives a dark, yet comical, performance.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1998/sep/09-23-98/arts/arts2.html (677 words)

	Amazon.de: Permanent Midnight: English Books: Jerry Stahl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Truth be told, Stahl didn't seem to have it so bad, and fell blindly into a series of enviable career positions that probably only led to drugs because of the capital it gave him with which to feed his habit.
		Stahl attempts to suggest a kind of figurative redemption for himself at the end of the story, but by the time we reach the end Stahl has built up the protagonist (himself) as such a complete loser that it's hard to see his ending as plausible.
		Stahl is a talented enough writer to make this story worth your time, if you're not already tired of the subject matter, and I will probably read Stahl's work again, especially since he's just published his first novel.
	www.amazon.de /Permanent-Midnight-Jerry-Stahl/dp/0349107203 (1657 words)

	Willamette Week\| Screen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As Stahl put it in his amazing 1995 memoir, Permanent Midnight, "I wasn't Chet Baker behind the bandstand blowing his heart out...I was Jerry Stahl, writing bad TV and hating it....
		Stahl wasn't caught dead doing ALF, but at one point, he thought ALF was going to kill him--literally.
		What made Stahl's account so intriguing was the straight 1980s TV culture (think of Cybill Shepherd filmed through a Vaseline-smeared lens) and its contrast with the writer's darkly hilarious, opiate-ridden angst.
	www.wweek.com /html/screena093098.html (668 words)

	[No title]
		Stahl was a graduate of some prestigious university in New York where he developed a delicate drug problem; nothing so serious as to require a trip to Betty Ford, but enough that he wanted to get away from the geographic link to his problems.
		On the cusp of fiscal, if not artistic success, Stahl lost all control; at one point he was found sitting in his car in the ghetto, with his newborn baby by his side, stabbing a needle into his jugular.
		By the end, one suspects and hopes that Stahl was able to overcome his addlings and thus go on to write the autobiography that became the film.
	www.the-declaration.com /print.php?showarticle=28 (867 words)

	Las Vegas Weekly Departments: Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As Jerry recounts his perilous journey toward rehab, he and Kitty find themselves drawn toward each other with the deadly but inevitable momentum of the newly clean and sober.
		There is never a point at which the film asks us to feel sorry for its protagonist; it simply presents his story as an exercise in self-destruction, all the while maintaining an attitude of amused tolerance for the predictability of his downward slide.
		Stahl's acerbic humor is evident in the scene where he plays a deadpan doctor at a methadone clinic.
	www.lasvegasweekly.com /departments/film/permmidnight.html (1059 words)

	dallasobserver.com \| \| Film \| Hollywood babble on \| 1998-09-17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Adapted from a memoir of the same title, which was written by Jerry Stahl, it's a guided tour through Los Angeles television studios by day, various drug dens by night, and its protagonist's troubled skull all of the time.
		To hear him tell it, Stahl was another ineffably cool, absolutely brilliant New York writer who in the '80s stooped to conquer the Hollywood philistines, writing TV scripts for shows such as ALF, Moonlighting, and, later, Twin Peaks.
		Jerry may be an arrogant, self-absorbed lout, but he's our arrogant, self-absorbed lout, the film tells us.
	www.dallasobserver.com /issues/1998-09-17/film2_1.html (858 words)

	Review: Permanent Midnight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In this case, David Veloz's adaptation of Jerry Stahl's autobiography, the substance is heroin.
		Stahl couldn't function without heroin, but, after sticking a needle in a vein, he was "a real stud." Eventually, after being caught high while driving a car with his own baby in the passenger seat, Stahl straightened out his life.
		And the real Jerry Stahl has a cameo as a pessimistic doctor who pronounces that failure is almost inevitable for hard-core addicts who try to kick the habit.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/permanent.html (613 words)

	Amazon.com: I, Fatty: A Novel: Books: Jerry Stahl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hidden away in the fine print before the opening of Jerry Stahl's novel I, FATTY is the caveat that while the people and events are a matter of historical record, what went on in their heads and came out of their mouths is pure speculation on the part of the author.
		Jerry Stahl is a fine writer and as a work of fiction the book is well written, wickedly funny though rather raunchy at times, and it makes a pretty good case for restoring Roscoe to his rightful place in film history.
		Jerry Stahl's novel takes you back to a time where the true person and his/her Tinseltown facade were as separate as California is from Florida.
	www.amazon.com /I-Fatty-Novel-Jerry-Stahl/dp/1582342474 (2543 words)

	Once beloved, then reviled. Now a novelist with an affinity for 'Fatty' gives him his due.
		Stahl saw the gold in Arbuckle's story and wrote "I, Fatty" (Bloomsbury, $23.95), an imaginary memoir written in the slangy lingo of an early Hollywood hepcat.
		Originally, Stahl was researching a book about the U.S. war against drugs in the early 20th century, a time when heroin was legal and Bayer was marketing it as "the housewife's friend." Once he stumbled across the Fatty tale and recognized it as being more his metier, Stahl abandoned the larger project.
		Stahl, who lives in Los Angeles and has a 15-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, says he spent a couple nights in the infamous Arbuckle suite (Rooms 1219, 1220 and 1221) of the St. Francis.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/04/DDGKI81MH51.DTL (1466 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Permanent Midnight: A Memoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		While Stahl managed to survive his fall with enough "real funny" intact to provoke some grossed-out laughs, what seems meant as a hilarious memoir of his drug-besotted depression too often becomes just a depressing memoir of his hilarity.
		Stahl is incredibly funny, and articulate, yet the description of his devastating life with drugs is nothing short of amazing.
		Stahl has done what no one else has - He has shown us the life he has lead, and he leaves no stone unturned, even if it reveals some horrifying things about him (like taking his infant daughter along literally to a den of hell in order to buy drugs).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0446517941 (916 words)

	The New York Times > Books > A Rare Success Story With Heroin at the Root
		Jerry Stahl, the author of "I, Fatty," at the grave of Virginia Rappe, who Fatty Arbuckle was accused of killing.
		Stahl something of an authority on moral turpitude and the public's appetite for it - a taste that time has done nothing to diminish.
		Stahl himself enjoys a good tabloid read, though he says the Vanity Fair on the floor of his shiny, fl Cadillac is his daughter's.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/08/24/books/24stah.html?ex=1251086400&en=efa5a82a53f14e1c&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (831 words)

	I, Fatty by Jerry Stahl: Reviews
		Stahl's a fabulous writer, tunneling deep into Fatty's mind, creating a richly sympathetic voice that veers from wisecracks to woe, all brilliantly illuminating the humanity behind the clown mask, and revealing a man starving for love.
		I, Fatty may overflow with insider gossip and speculation on the often sordid affairs of the young movie industry's biggest stars, but it also reveals how exciting it was to be an actor or director in Hollywood's formative years.
		Stahl sometimes stumbles, especially in losing his character's voice when he recounts the details of the rape trial....
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/stahljerry/ifatty (441 words)

	Permanent Midnight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Permanent Midnight is based on the true life experiences of Jerry Stahl, a successful Hollywood writer who, in the mid-eighties, had a $5,000-a-week job churning out plotlines for disposable TV sitcoms and a $6,000-a-week heroin habit.
		Stahl rarely appears to be puncturing veins for the thrill of it all in Permanent Midnight; it's so he can talk to his mother on the phone, show up for work on time, even pay his bills.
		Stahl narrates all this in a motel bedroom to a sympathetic lover called Kitty (Norristown's own Maria Bello) with whom he spent some rehab time.
	members.dca.net /~dnb/reviews/permanentmidnight.htm (440 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Based on Jerry Stahl's to-hell-and-back memoir of the same title, Permanent Midnight follows a young TV writer's terrified flight from self-discovery into the humiliating free fall of heroin addiction.
		While Stahl's book was wordy and lugubriously hip (full of preemptive self-loathing exhaled in a voice that was part Alexander Portnoy, part Sergeant Rock), Veloz's interpretation is lighter on the ear and, since this is a film, he has compressed and deleted material to squeeze Stahl's story into a 90-minute girdle.
		He coaxes timid Jerry into joining him, and soon the two are testing the buckling window and the mad courage of their high.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=1388 (1175 words)

	Wide Turns: The New Yorker
		It says something that the most wholesome-feeling work in Jerry Stahl’s four-book oeuvre should be his new novel about Fatty Arbuckle, the silent-film comedian ruined by the popular belief that sometime over Labor Day weekend, 1921, with the help of a Coke bottle, he raped and murdered a young actress named Virginia Rappe.
		Stahl’s first work of fiction, “Perv” (1999), was a coming-of-age story that ended with several dozen pages devoted to a staggering sexual assault against two teen-agers inside a car.
		Stahl makes a big change to Fatty’s actual fadeout, which came in 1933, after a decade of working his way back up through vaudeville and shorts to a new, never fulfilled feature deal.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books/?040705crbo_books1 (1195 words)

	[No title]
		Jerry Stahl’s new book, I, Fatty, is a fictionalized memoir of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, the silent-film comic whose vertiginous success ended in 1921 during a Labor Day party in San Francisco’s St. Francis Hotel.
		Stahl’s book is not a forensic timeline of facts stuccoed over with some imagined dialogue.
		What Stahl sees is a morally cratered landscape populated by grifters, dope fiends and depraved alkies — starting with Arbuckle’s dad and, inching up the evolutionary ladder of father figures, includes Mack Sennett and Paramount studio boss Adolph Zukor.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=55304 (963 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This cautionary tale, complete with the swank cars, cool clothes and depraved babes that inevitably accompany degradation Hollywood style, is based on former sitcom scribe Jerry Stahl's lurid tell-all memoir of his descent into heroin addiction.
		Jerry wows the hell out of the TV types with drug-fueled flights of fancy, like his faux-intellectual argument that Mr.
		Stiller, leaner and meaner than usual, almost succeeds in making you sympathize, considering that Jerry is a supremely self-centered schmuck who never misses an opportunity to crack wise: When asked about the worst thing drugs ever made him do, he quips that they made him plug his book on the Maury Povich show.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=40636 (188 words)

	Authors: Jerry Stahl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		erry Stahl has written for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Playboy, LA Style, LA Weekly, Omni, and other magazines.
		He has also written for thirtysomething, Moonlighting, Alf, and other TV shows.
		He continues to write for magazines, newspapers, and television.
	www.twbookmark.com /authors/15/312 (38 words)

	'Permanent Midnight': Memoirs of a Hollywood Drug Addict
		The film's Jerry is just out of rehab when he recalls this story for Kitty (Maria Bello), a stranger who joins him for the sexual and confessional marathon that frames the film.
		In the long flashbacks that form the bulk of the film, Jerry's only real sign of dysfunction is his indifference to Elizabeth Hurley's character, an ambitious Englishwoman named Sandra who has her own high-powered television career.
		Peter Greene is scarily authentic as the worst guy Jerry could possibly meet at a methadone clinic, a drug dealer who sends Jerry into a spectacular debacle involving his and Sandra's baby.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/091698midnigh-film-review.html (743 words)

	Film & TV: Dark Confessions (FW Weekly . 10-05-98)
		Jerry Stahl makes no excuses and pulls no punches in Permanent Midnight, his sardonic account of his frantic days and desperate nights as a highly paid tv scriptwriter with an impossibly expensive drug habit.
		Stahl, almost 92 days into recovery, meets a beautiful stranger (Maria Bello of E.R.) who spots him right away as an ex-junkie.
		Stahl becomes increasingly unstable as his habit worsens - at one point, he jams a needle into his neck because he just can't wait to get high any other way - and his script pitches turn into incomprehensible riffs that link Nosferatu and The Patty Duke Show.
	weeklywire.com /ww/10-05-98/fw_film3.html (447 words)

	Love arises from chaos in Stahl novel - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Even now, long after he has established himself, Jerry Stahl admits the hook upon which he hangs his writer's hat is an uncertain perch.
		Stahl says he didn't set out to feature his hometown in his novels, and that he never considered Pittsburgh intrinsic to his work.
		After journalist and writer Jerry Stahl published "Permanent Midnight," a stoic memoir about his descent into the darkness of drug addiction, he became a minor celebrity.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/search/s_2162.html (1075 words)

	Permanent Midnight DVD Review
		Jerry recounts his arrival in Hollywood, a young man with all the cynical confidence of a guy moving three hundred miles an hour through a traffic jam.
		The ins and outs of Jerry's writing and personal interaction is related in penetrating detail as the writer looks back on his bleak Hollywood existence.
		Elizabeth Hurley is poshly cool as Stahl's "green card" wife Sandra, Maria Bello is a delightful and pretty new face as Stahl's new love Kitty and Owen Wilson continues his winning streak by creating another quirky character as Jerry's buddy Nicky.
	www.filmsondisc.com /DVDPages/permanent_midnight.htm (561 words)

	Sexual Perversity in Philadelphia
		Jerry Stahl is not one of those people.
		Stahl, who chronicled his own heroin addiction in Permanent Midnight, is one of the rare writers whose life is as strange as his fiction.
		But in dredging though the darkest muck of the human psyche, all three writers have found hilarity and conveyed it with an elegant literary style that is both painfully frank and wonderfully refreshing.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/110801/ae.books.pervs.shtml (783 words)

	Jerry Stahl Interview at Acid Logic
		Aside from being the author of the popular drug confessional, "Permanent Midnight," Jerry Stahl has the questionable honor of being the man who penned this sentence: His mother's ankles felt like hot salamis as Tony Zank held her out the rest home window.
		Jerry stopped by the virtual acid logic offices to discuss his books, the drug film genre and the ever popular scrotum of President Bush.
		Jerry: Well, if a writer had a happy childhood, in today's Oprah-esque environment, that in itself could be considered tragic - denying he or she the dramatic onrush of feeling, prose and sympathy - not to mention possible Lifetime Network tie-in - a more 'dysfunctional' childhood might help facilitate.
	www.acidlogic.com /jerrystahl.htm (1239 words)

	Eye - Permanent Midnight - 09.24.98
		Back in the late '80s, TV writer Jerry Stahl was a man on his way up.
		Many of the questions aimed Stahl's way had less to do with the details of his addiction than with the Kafka-esque sequence that precedes the film's final credits: clip after clip of Stahl appearing on an endless string of TV talk shows, with a superimposed graphic identifying him as "Jerry, Former Junkie."
		Stahl's canny and horrific memoir is indeed the antithesis of a fun ride, but it did manage to net him a post-rehab development deal, attracting the interest of both Veloz and gonzo producers Jane Hamsher and Don Murphy, the driving forces behind Natural Born Killers.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_09.24.98/film/permanent.html (507 words)

	"Best Screenwriting Magazine" -- LA Times
		Flawed but thought-provoking, this adaptation of Jerry Stahl's real-life descent into heroin addiction while writing TV sitcoms is a neat peek into non-movie star Hollywood, which puts it on some sort of must-see list.
		Midnight shows us Stahl dashing from one fix to another, but what we don't see is just as important: what got him to this place, what kind of writer he wanted to be, and exactly how he applies his skills to the "low medium" of television to the tune of $5,000 a week.
		If Stahl was concerned about the careers he was putting at risk (other than his own) while he was shooting up, it's not shown here.
	www.creativescreenwriting.com /csdaily/dvds/03_17_04.html (1070 words)

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