Peter Viertel Black Heart", which was made into a film starring Clint Eastwood in 1990. It is a thinly-disguised account of Viertel's experiences working with film director John Huston while they were making "The African Queen". The central character is scriptwriter Pete Verrill while the Huston character is called John Wilson. Film critic Pauline Kael wrote in 1999 that "White Hunter" was “still the best Hollywood novel I’ve ever come across — and it isn’t even set in Hollywood.” Viertel's opinion of the finished film was tempered by his idea that Huston himself would have preferred a portrayal with more sarcasm. Viertel's
Jeff Fahey the Season 3 premiere of "Miami Vice" as gun dealer Eddie Kaye, famously destroying Detective Sonny Crockett's Ferrari Daytona. In 1990, Fahey starred alongside Marisa Tomei in the TV movie "Parker Kane", and alongside Clint Eastwood in the Eastwood-directed "White Hunter Black Heart". In 1992, he starred alongside Pierce Brosnan in "The Lawnmower Man". In 1995, Fahey was the lead in the Trimark Pictures adventure film "Eye of the Wolf", directed by Arnaud Sélignac, based on the book "KAZAN" by James Oliver Curwood. In 1995, he starred as "Winston McBride" on ABC's "The Marshal". In 1999, he played the main