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Bruce Feirstein (born 1956) is an American screenwriter and humorist, best known for his contributions to the James Bond series and his best-selling humor books, including ''Real Men Don't Eat Quiche'' and ''Nice Guys Sleep Alone''. ''Real Men Don't Eat Quiche'' was on the ''New York Times'' best seller list for 53 weeks. ==Career== Feirstein attended Boston University, where he served as managing editor for the student newspaper, ''The Daily Free Press''. After graduation, he worked as an advertising copywriter, winning 11 Clio Awards, and three One Show Gold Pencils for his work on corporate and political advertising campaigns, for clients including BMW, FedEx, Michael Dukakis, and Sony. He then became a freelance writer for many publications, including ''The Sunday New York Times Magazine'' (where he substituted for Russell Baker), ''The New Republic'', ''New York Magazine'', the ''Washington Post'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The New Yorker'', the ''East Hampton Star'' and ''Playboy''. He was a contributing editor at ''Spy'', worked for Howell Raines writing editorials for the ''New York Times'', and has written the (largely) humorous "New Yorker's Diary" for the ''New York Observer'' since 1994. He has been a contributing editor at ''Vanity Fair'' since 1995, and a columnist at ''Strategy + Business'' magazine since 2000. His work has also appeared on-line at ''Salon.com'' and ''Inside.com''. In television, Feirstein worked very briefly on ''Saturday Night Live'', was an on-air contributor to ABC's ''Days End'', and was nominated for a Cable-Ace Award for his one-act HBO play ''The Best Legs in the Eighth Grade'', starring Tim Matheson and James Belushi. He was also the story editor on the Fox Network series ''Mr. President'', starring George C. Scott and produced by Johnny Carson. He has appeared (as himself) in documentaries about the 1980s, the Hollywood Award Season, James Bond and Pierce Brosnan. Feirstein has also appeared as an on-air political commentator for CNBC and Fox News, and has been interviewed on the ''Today Show'' and ''Good Morning America''. Beside the James Bond series, Feirstein has also worked (uncredited) on screenplays for Will Smith, Bruce Willis, John Travolta, and Julia Roberts, along with the directors John Woo and John McTiernan. He appeared as himself in the 1992 feature film ''Naked in New York'', directed by Dan Algrant. In 2007, while continuing to write screenplays in Los Angeles, and contribute to ''Vanity Fair'' in New York, he began producing movies in China. His first film, 2009's ''Hong He'', (''Red River'') the story of the aftermath of the Vietnam War, opened to great critical and commercial acclaim in China. Directed by Jiarui Zhang, it stars Nick Cheung, Danny Lee and Jingchu Zhang.〔The New York Times, "Bruce Feirstein's Hong He Seems to be a Hit in China", http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/business/media/01bruce.html?ref=business〕 In 2008, Feirstein was named to the board of Overseers of Boston University.〔Boston University Today, May 6, 2008. http://www.bu.edu/today/campus-life/2008/05/05/alums-elected-board-overseers〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bruce Feirstein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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