Alan Alda, Mary Louise Parker, David Strathairn, and Paul Rudd have signed on to star in Howl, the Allen Ginsberg biopic already starring James Franco as Ginsberg, which will focus on Ginsberg's 1950s-era obscenity trial: Among the real-life characters featured in the film are prosecuting attorney Ralph McIntosh (Strathairn), Judge Clayton Horn (Alda), prosecution witness Professor David Kirk (Daniels), radio ...