NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Belzer has a story to tell you — about a guy named Richard Belzer.
The 62-year-old actor-comedian has signed with Simon & Schuster to write two mystery books featuring himself as a TV performer caught up in his own plot.
“It is with great enthusiasm that I will bring the world of show business, celebrity worship, sly social commentary and even `cameos’ by real celebrities into my literary adventures,” Belzer said in a statement released Monday by his publicist.
He plays Detective John Munch on NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”
Belzer continued: “A potent mix of Dashiell Hammett, Oscar Wilde, Lenny Bruce and Robert Altman seasoned by the Belzerian vision of life, as the wry and raucous, raunchy worlds of make-believe and reality converge, this is the first `reality novel’ of the new millennium that explores a unique universe that poses the question, `What is reality?'”
The first book, “I Am Not a Cop,” will be published in fall 2008.
[(AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
Awesome! Belz rules!