If producers ever get around to making a film version of SPY: The Funny Years, cowriter Kurt Andersen has some suggestions for his own casting. Last weekend on his public radio show, Studio 360, Andersen talked with Janet Hirshenson and Jane Jenkins, casting directors and authors of A Star Is Found, and grilled them on who might play his character in a biopic.

Before he let the pros do their thing, Andersen made his own modest suggestions: "Maybe George Clooney?" Barring People's Sexiest Man Alive, Andersen would accept Kyle MacLachlan ("Dude sort of looks like me") but worried he might have to live with Steve Buscemi.

Hirshenson and Jenkins had their own suggestions for who should play the writer, editor, and radio host. Robert Downey Jr.'s name was mentioned, as was Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling ("For Kurt: the Young Years"). Other possibilities included John Cusack and Clive Owen.

That last suggestion prompted the usually modulated radio host to positively chirp, "You guys are brilliant! You guys are really brilliant!" Not brilliant enough to suggest Weeds's Martin Donovan, who's an Andersen dead ringer.

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