Unexpectedly in the mix is actor, director and generally tough dude Ed Burns.

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" I remember seeing an unknown, floppy-haired Ed Burns making the rounds of Park City with his debut film, "The Brothers McMullen.

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While Goldstein's book has sold only between 75, 000 and 100, 000 copies, it made him a star veterinarian--magazines, TV shows and celebrity clients like actors Ed Burns and Steven Seagal and chef Wolfgang Puck came calling.

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It isn't long before he's spotted by the crowd on Madison Avenue, and not much longer before police detectives, including the acerbic Jack Dougherty (Ed Burns), realize that there isn't a fingerprint in the room by which to identify their would-be leaper.

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