" Wexler maintained in 2002: " I know Solomon is upset about that, and I wrote him a long letter explaining how we wrote the song together and that he has always gotten his share of the royalties.

Linguist Paul Wexler has proposed yet another etymology, tracing kobold to the roots koben (" pigsty ") and hold (" stall spirit ").

Wexler has said the scene under the opening credits with the bike messenger delivering film to the television station was inspired by the film, Black Orpheus ( 1959 ).

Traditionally A & R executives were composers, arrangers and producers – Atlantic Records's heads Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun were producers and composers respectively – but an A & R with musical ability and knowledge has become a rarity, with Ron Fair and Martin Kierszenbaum being notable recent exceptions.

Davey Wexler, along with her mother, Gwen, and her little brother, Jason, has just attended the funeral of her father, Adam, who was shot to death in a holdup at their 7-Eleven convenience store in Atlantic City.

The indoor track team & field team has risen to national prominence in the past few years, as the Ironman quartet of Steven Wexler, Jason Baker, Conor Sullivan and anchor leg Sharif Webb won the National Championship in the 3200m ( 4x800m ) relay at the 2006 National Scholastic Indoor Championships held in New York City.

Wexler has also directed fictional movies.

Karns said it was a `` wrongful act '' for Wexler to take statements `` privately and outside of the grand jury room ''.

It was during this period that Partridge began a relationship with an American fan, Erica Wexler, the niece of famed American record producer Jerry Wexler.

The original cinematographer of The Conversation was Haskell Wexler.

The screenplay was reshaped significantly by the circle of talent who would eventually bring it to the screen: Fonda, Ashby, Wexler, Jon Voight, producer Hellman and screenwriters Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones.

Haskell Wexler was supposed to shoot The Last Detail but he could not get a union card for an East Coast production and so Ashby asked Nestor Almendros and Gordon Willis but they were both unavailable.

At one time considered by Jerry Wexler to be " the greatest male soul singer of all time ," Burke was " a singer whose smooth, powerful articulation and mingling of sacred and profane themes helped define soul music in the early 1960s.

" Atlantic Vice-President and producer Jerry Wexler admits that by this time he was feeling creatively exhausted, and feared the company might not survive.

According to Wexler: " Solomon Burke was the infusion of fresh energy I needed.

Meeting Burke " was not purely kismet ," as Wexler and Ertegun were aware of Burke and his talent, as " Wexler ’ s former mentor at Billboard, Paul Ackerman, had been urging him to sign Burke for several years ," but were waiting for Burke's contract with Apollo Records to expire.

" Burke sounded like a Baptist preacher in a country church, and for Wexler he was the first and possibly the greatest of all ' 60s soul men.

" In 2000 Wexler indicated: " Solomon was beautiful, baby.

" When recalling Burke's first recording session at Atlantic, Wexler added in 2002: " There was a blizzard the morning we were to do the first recording session with Solomon and I didn't know if I would be able to get into New York.

Burke's next " massive hit " was his cover of " If You Need Me " ( Atlantic 2185 ), which was recorded on March 15, 1963, which was written and recorded originally by Wilson Pickett for Lloyd Price's Detroit-based Double L Records, which had been rejected by Wexler, but who had purchased the publishing rights.

Burke recalled in 2003: " I was furious when Wexler rejected Pickett ", and " when radio personality the Magnificent Montague started spinning Pickett ’ s original version, Wexler rushed out Burke ’ s, with both in Billboards " Singles Review " column on April 13. and both featured on Billboard's " Artists ' Biographies " on May 4, 1963.

On May 28, 1964 Burke recorded two unreleased songs, and " Everybody Needs Somebody to Love " ( Atlantic 2241 ), that was also written by Burke ( but also credited to Bert Berns and Jerry Wexler ), which was Burke's most prominent bid for an enduring soul standard.

Burke claims he was the sole writer on the song but was talked into sharing credit by Wexler and Berns.

I played it to Jerry Wexler and Bert Berns, who thought that it was too fast, and had the wrong tempo.

We ’ d come in and it used to be, ‘ Hello Solomon, Jerry will be right with you .’ And five minutes later Jerry would say, ‘ Come on in my office and have some lunch .’ But then it got to the point where it was, ‘ Did you have an appointment with Mr. Wexler?

The Steadicam was first used in the Best Picture-nominated Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory ( 1976 ), debuting with a shot that compounded the Steadicam's innovation: cinematographer Haskell Wexler had Brown start the shot on a fully elevated platform crane which jibbed down, and when it reached the ground, Brown stepped off and walked the camera through the set.

The enhancement factor is commonly used to correct the saturated vapor pressure of water vapor when empirical relationships, such as those developed by Wexler, Goff, and Gratch, are used to estimate the properties of psychrometric systems.

Contempt proceedings originally had been brought against 677 persons in 133 precincts by Morris J. Wexler, special prosecutor.

Wexler admitted in earlier court hearings that he issued grand jury subpenas to about 200 persons involved in the election investigation, questioned the individuals in the Criminal courts building, but did not take them before the grand jury.

Wexler had charged the precinct judges in these cases with `` complementary '' miscount of the vote, in which votes would be taken from one candidate and given to another.

After reading his statement discharging the 23d ward case, Karns told Wexler that if the seven cases scheduled for trial also involved persons who had been subpenaed, he would dismiss them.

* 1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter ( d. 1999 )

* 1917 – Jerry Wexler, American record producer ( d. 2008 )

The film version of Blume ’ s 1981 novel Tiger Eyes, directed by the author's son Lawrence Blume, stars Willa Holland as Davey and Amy Jo Johnson as Gwen Wexler.

“ The Vienna Convention, Montreal Protocol and Global Policy to Protect Stratospheric Ozone ”, in P. Wexler et al.

Jerry Wexler of Billboard magazine coined the term " rhythm and blues " in 1948 as a musical marketing term in the United States.

** Norman Wexler, American screenwriter ( b. 1926 )

* January 10 – Jerry Wexler, American record producer ( d. 2008 )

** Paul Wexler, American actor ( b. 1929 )

In his autobiography he confesses that he did not share the general admiration of Haskell Wexler, who worked on The Loved One as both director of photography and a producer.

This would be the first of two Oscar-nominated films where Wexler would be fired and replaced by Butler, the second being One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( 1975 ), where Wexler had similar problems with Milos Forman.

In a 2001 Torah commentary released on behalf of the Conservative Movement of Judaism, rabbinic scholar Robert Wexler stated: " The most likely assumption we can make is that both Genesis and Gilgamesh drew their material from a common tradition about the flood that existed in Mesopotamia.

** Independence Day-Chris Carpenter, Bill W. Benton, Bob Beemer and Jeff Wexler

Both tracks were produced by Atlantic founders Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegün with staff producer Jerry Wexler and featured arrangements by Richard Wess.