Alan Jay Lerner ( August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986 ) was an American lyricist and librettist.

Born in New York City, he was the son of Edith Adelson Lerner and Joseph Jay Lerner, whose brother, Samuel Alexander Lerner, was founder and owner of the Lerner Stores, a chain of dress shops.

Alan Jay Lerner was educated at Bedales School in England, The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut, ( where he wrote " The Choate Marching Song ") and Harvard.

At both Choate and Harvard, Lerner was a classmate of John F. Kennedy ; at Choate they had worked together on the yearbook staff.

Lerner and Loewe's first collaboration was a musical adaptation of Barry Conners's farce The Patsy called Life of the Party for a Detroit stock company.

This was the same team who would later join with Lerner and Loewe to create Gigi.

Before finishing the musical, Lerner was eager to write while My Fair Lady was taking so long to complete.

Lerner was hospitalized with bleeding ulcers while Loewe continued to have heart troubles.

Camelot was a hit nonetheless, with a poignant coda ; immediately following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, his widow told Life magazine that JFK's administration reminded her of the " one brief shining moment " of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot.

In 1965 Lerner collaborated again with Burton Lane on the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, which was adapted for film in 1970.

At this time, Lerner was hired by film producer Arthur P. Jacobs to write a treatment for an upcoming film project, Doctor Dolittle, but Lerner abrogated his contract after several non-productive months of non-communicative procrastination and was replaced with Leslie Bricusse.

Lerner was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971.

After their divorce in 1981, Lerner was ordered to pay her a settlement of $ 50, 000.

The divorces cost him much of his wealth, but Lerner bears primary responsibility for his financial ups and downs, and was apparently less than truthful about his financial fecklessness.

Michael Lerner ( born 1943 ) is a political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Berkeley.

Michael Lerner was born in 1943 and grew up in the Weequahic section of Newark, New Jersey.

Jaime Lerner ( born December 17, 1937 ) was governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil.

Lerner was born to a Jewish family originally from Łódź, Poland in Curitiba.

Ken Lerner ( born May 27, 1948 ) is an American television, stage and film actor who is perhaps best known for playing " Principal Flutie " in the first episodes of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Lerner was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Blanche and George Lerner, who was a fisherman and antiques dealer .< ref >

Richard Ravitch ( no middle name ) was born July 7, 1933 in New York City, the son of Saul ( d. 1952 ) and Sylvia ( née Lerner, d. 1974 ) Ravitch.

Henry Morgan ( born Henry Lerner Van Ost, Jr. March 31, 1915 – May 19, 1994 ) was an American humorist.

Laurence ( David ) Lerner ( born 12 December 1925 ) is a South African born British literary critic and poet and novelist.

In 1957, Lerner and Leonard Bernstein, another of Lerner's college classmates, collaborated on " Lonely Men of Harvard ," a tongue-in-cheek salute to their alma mater.

Lerner worked with Kurt Weill on the stage musical Love Life ( 1948 ) and Burton Lane on the movie musical Royal Wedding ( 1951 ).

Burton Lane and Lerner were working on a musical about Li ' l Abner.

Loewe retired to Palm Springs, California while Lerner went through a series of musicals, some successful, some not, with such composers as André Previn ( Coco ), John Barry ( Lolita, My Love ), Leonard Bernstein ( 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ), Burton Lane ( Carmelina ) and Charles Strouse ( Dance a Little Closer, based on the film, Idiot's Delight, nicknamed Close A Little Faster by Broadway wags because it closed on opening night ).

Most biographers blame Lerner's professional decline on the lack of a strong director with whom Lerner could collaborate, as Neil Simon did with Mike Nichols or Stephen Sondheim with Harold Prince ( Moss Hart, who had directed My Fair Lady, died shortly after Camelot opened ).

In a 1979 interview on NPR's All Things Considered, Lerner went into some depth about his lyrics for My Fair Lady.

It lends its name to the 1960 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, which is based on T. H. White's literary version of the legend, The Once and Future King.

Following the takeover of English football club Aston Villa by MBNA Chairman Randy Lerner in August 2006 and as of September 19, 2006, General Krulak joined the board of Aston Villa as non-executive director, where he quickly earned the approval of the fans by taking the time to post on various Aston Villa messageboards.

Hayek's work on the macroeconomic subjects of central planning, trade cycle theory, the division of knowledge, and entrepreneurial adaptation especially, differ greatly from the opinions of macroeconomic " Marshallian " economists in the tradition of John Maynard Keynes and the microeconomic " Walrasian " economists in the tradition of Abba Lerner.

This is the only musical adaptation authorized by Bradbury himself, who turned down Lerner and Loewe in the 1960s when they asked his permission to make a musical based on the novel.

For example, the characters in Lerner and Loewe's musical My Fair Lady, which is based on George Bernard Shaw's 1914 play Pygmalion, are essentially unchanged from those in Shaw's stage work, because the musical version is quite faithful to the original ( except for the changed ending, which is pessimistic in the play ), even to the point of retaining most of Shaw's dialogue.

Burton appeared on Broadway, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Time Remembered ( 1958 ) and winning the award for playing King Arthur in the musical Camelot ( 1960 ), directed by Moss Hart and written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.

Lerner briefly moved on to direct computer services at Schlumberger, but returned full-time to Cisco in 1987.

He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on the long-running Broadway musicals My Fair Lady and Camelot, with book and lyrics by Lerner, both of which were made into films.

The production starred Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet. The trio appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and sang a few numbers from the musical, along with an appearance by Lerner and Loewe.

Lyricist and book writer Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe had previously collaborated on three musicals ; the first, Life of the Party, closed during pre-Broadway tryouts, and the second and third, What's Up?

However, Lerner denied that he had based the book on an older story, and, in an explanation published in The New York Times, stated that he didn't learn of the existence of the Germelshausen story until after he had completed the first draft of Brigadoon.

However, during the trial, which culminated in a courtroom riot with punches being thrown ( Lerner was the only defendant to remain seated ) the presiding judge sent the defendants to jail on " contempt of court " charges.

Lerner was sentenced and transported to Terminal Island Federal Penitentiary in San Pedro, California, where Lerner served several months before the 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court ordered Lerner released ( despite the claim made by J. Edgar Hoover in a public statement repeated on radio and television that Lerner was " one of the most dangerous criminals in America " though he had never engaged in any act of violence ).