His screen adaptation of his own novelThe Big Fix starred actor Richard Dreyfuss, who portrayed hard-boiled private detective Moses Wine. Wine is cynical, hard-edged and also a former 1960s radical.
Simon himself experienced a political transformation in which he felt alienated from what he saw as the excesses of the Left after the realities of the September 11, 2001 attacks affected him. He jokes "I may be the first American writer who was profiled both by Mother Jones and National Review." He supports both same-gender marriage and the War on Terror, and contends that those issues are linked.[1]
