Mamet, David. WAG THE DOG.

New York: Tribeca Productions, 1996. Revised shooting script of the film, January 7, 1997. 125 pages with pink-papered rewrites in a spring-binder. Mamet's screenplay shared film credit with Hilary Henkin, who loosely adapted it from the Larry Beinhart novel, "American Hero." According to Mamet: "I never read the novel or knew the author's name. [Director] Barry Levinson called me to say that he had a story in which the President had to stage a fake war to distract from a peccadillo. I said great. He's fucking a girl scout." The finished movie, starring Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, was nominated for several Golden Globe Awards, including one for best screenplay. Fine.