Fresh Air, David Benioff and Edward Norton (Nonfiction‪)‬

Novelist David Benioff and actor Edward Norton on this edition of Fresh Air. David Benioff is the author of 25th Hour. It's about a drug dealer who has one day left on the outside before beginning his seven-year prison sentence. It's the basis of the Spike Lee film of the same name. Edward Norton stars. 25th Hour is just out on video. Edward Norton's new film is The Italian Job. Norton has played Larry Flynt's lawyer in The People Vs. Larry Flynt, and received an Academy Award nomination for his role as a skin head in American History X. He also starred in Fight Club and Keeping the Faith, which he directed. (Original Broadcast Dates: February 11, 2003 and April 17, 2000)