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May 15, 2012 · Film geeks might know Wexler as the guy who wrote the screenplays for Mandingo, Serpico, Joe, and Saturday Night Fever, the last which made him a very rich man. Too rich, probably, because Wexler was extremely bipolar and prone to manic episodes in which he ran around New York City like a vagrant, pulling elaborate public stunts that were ...
Norman Wexler (August 16, 1926 – August 23, 1999) was an American screenwriter whose works included Saturday Night Fever, Serpico, and Joe. . A native of New Bedford, Massachusetts, Wexler graduated from Central High School in Detroit in 1944, attended Harvard University, and moved to New York in 1951.
Norman Wexler, the playwright and screenwriter whose script for "Saturday Night Fever" is the basis for the hit London and upcoming Broadway musical, died Aug. 23 in Washington DC.
Aug 23, 1999 · A stage version of "Saturday Night Fever" with a book by Nan Knighton based on Wexler's screenplay opened in London in 1998 and on Broadway in 1999. "Based on the hugely popular bestseller, "Mandingo" turned out to be a trash masterpiece. Its fierce condemnation of slavery and its unsparing depiction of the degradation it might inflict upon ...
Aug 25, 1999 · Oscar-nominated Norman Wexler, who wrote "Saturday Night Fever," "Staying Alive" and "Serpico," died Monday of a heart attack in Washington D.C. He was 73. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Norman Wexler. retrieved. 9 October 2017. place of birth. New Bedford. 1 reference. imported from Wikimedia project. German Wikipedia. date of death. 23 August 1999 ...
