- A member of the Writers Guild of America since 1982, Rex Weiner's produced screenwriting credits include The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, starring Andrew Dice Clay and directed by Renny Harlin for 20th Century Fox and Silver Pictures, based on Weiner's original stories which appeared as weekly serials in The New York Rocker and the LA Weekly. He created, co-wrote and was associate producer of Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files, starring Ron Silver and Hector Elizondo, among the first of TNT's original feature-length movies. As one of the first writers brought on board to launch the TV series Miami Vice, Weiner wrote the now classic 9th episode, "Glades."
He has written and directed for the stage, and studied with the Padua Hills Playwrights group. His full length musical play, Be Bop A Lula, was produced by John Densmore (The Doors), Adam Ant, and Lori Depp at Theater Theatre in Hollywood in 1992, starring Paul Hipp (original lead in Buddy on Broadway and the West End) and Donal Logue (TV's Grounded For Life). A revival in 2008 was staged at the Cat Club on the Sunset Strip.
Weiner's feature articles have appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, LA Times Sunday Magazine, the New Yorker and LA Weekly. He is one of the founding editors of High Times Magazine. He is also the co-author of The Woodstock Census (Viking), one of the key texts analyzing the impact of the Sixties Generation on American society. As a Hollywood correspondent for Rolling Stone Italia, his many interviews with film stars (Leonardo DiCaprio, Cristina Ricci, Billy Bob Thornton) and music legends (Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Berry Gordy) have given him a wide readership in Italy.
Weiner reported on international film, film finance and entertainment technology as a staff reporter at Variety and Daily Variety from 1992 - 1997. His column, Lost and Found, appeared weekly in the trade paper. He was one of the developers of variety.com, Variety's online edition.
A native New Yorker, Weiner has lived in Los Angeles since 1981 and in Baja California Sur, Mexico, where he owns a 160-year old hacienda in the historic village of Todos Santos and enjoys surfing with his son, Carlos Laszlo Weiner.
- IMDb mini biography by: Rex Weiner
- The title character of The Adventures of Ford Fairlane was created by Rex Weiner in a series of stories that were published as weekly serials 1979-80 by the New York Rocker and the LA Weekly. The stories are published by Rare Bird Books as The Original Adventures of Ford Fairlane, available on Amazon.
- Was a reporter and columnist for Variety. He continues as a journalist for many publications, including The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review, and magazines such as L'Officiel in France and Icon in Italy.
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