Who is the author of the source material for the 1992 American legal drama film directed by Rob Reiner in which Cuba Gooding Jr. appeared?
Cuba Gooding Jr. Cuba M. Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. He gained his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in "Boyz n the Hood" (1991); he appeared in "A Few Good Men" (1992), "The Tuskegee Airmen" (1995), "Outbreak" (1995) and "Jerry Maguire" (1996), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He gained later attention for his roles as Carl Brashear in "Men of Honor", and in Michael Bay's WWII epic "Pearl Harbor" (2001) as Doris Miller. His other notable films include "As Good as It Gets" (1997), "American Gangster" (2007), "Lee Daniels' The Butler" (2013), and "Selma" (2014), playing civil rights attorney Fred Gray. In 2016, he portrayed O.J. Simpson in the FX drama series "", and co-starred in the sixth season of the FX anthology series "American Horror Story", subtitled "".
Cliff Sloan Clifford Sloan is the former Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure at the U.S. State Department. Previously, Sloan was the publisher of "Slate" magazine. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College. During his time at Harvard Law, Sloan assisted Alan Dershowitz with the famous Claus von Bülow murder case with his classmate and friend Eliot Spitzer. In the 1990 movie Reversal of Fortune about the case, Sloan and Spitzer are played by Felicity Huffman and Annabella Sciorra. After his time at Harvard Law, he served as a Supreme Court clerk for Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. He also was Vice President of Business Affairs and general counsel at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, where he was responsible for developing strategic partnerships and managing WPNI's legal affairs. Additionally, Sloan served as Associate White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton. He is married to Mary Lou Hartman, former Director of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship program.