>>Dershowitz’s book about the case became the 1990 movie “Reversal of Fortune,” starring Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons.
The late Ron Silver played Dershowitz. He is seen playing some basketball with his interns/co-workers. At one point Claus’ girlfriend tells him why they contacted him. “I kept telling him, get the Jew!”
Silver, as Dershowitz, takes a beat pause (as actors put it) and says, “Can the Jew get down to business?”
Dersh also helped out Howie Carr in a suit involving Don Imus and a couple networks; as Carr put it in The Brothers Bulger, the case was settled out of court
(Howie got a Fla. condo out of it)
>>From Scott Fybush NE Radio Watch, 1998:
“Carr, meantime, is embroiled in a nasty shouting match with Don Imus. It started when Carr began poking fun at Imus’ age, and escalated when Imus accused Carr’s wife, Kathy, of having an affair with boxer Riddick Bowe. Now Kathy Carr has hired publicity-shy lawyer Alan Dershowitz to file a libel suit…”
See Jeremy Irons get the scare of his life in “The Merchant of Venice”. From a Jew no less.
A pretty good interpretation of Shakespeare’s play.