Richard Belzer has played Detective John Munch on television for more than fifteen years — and on ten different shows. From Homicide: Life on the Street to The Wire, Arrested Development, and of course the various flavors of Law and Order.
While promoting his new book, "I Am Not A Cop" on NPR's Morning Edition, Richard Belzer told a great story of a real shoplifter who ran around the corner onto the set of Homicide while they were filming an arrest scene. Belzer says that event made him begin to think about the convergence of celebrity and reality and the creation of celebrities out of virtually everyone. From that idea, Belzer has created a "metareality novel" by taking his life and fictionalizing it.
