Biografia
Rex Weiner has been a member of the Writers Guild of America since 1982. His produced screenwriting credits include The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, featuring Andrew Dice Clay and directed by Renny Harlin for 20th Century Fox and Silver Pictures, based on Weiner's original stories that were serialized weekly in The New York Rocker and LA Weekly. He created, co-wrote, and served as associate producer for Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files, starring Ron Silver and Hector Elizondo, one of TNT's first original feature-length films. As an early writer on the TV series Miami Vice, Weiner penned the classic ninth episode, "Glades."
He has written and directed stage productions and studied with the Padua Hills Playwrights group. His full-length musical play, Be Bop A Lula, was produced in 1992 at Theater Theatre in Hollywood by John Densmore (The Doors), Adam Ant, and Lori Depp, starring Paul Hipp (original lead in Buddy on Broadway and the West End) and Donal Logue (TV’s Grounded For Life). The play had a revival in 2008 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 a founding editor of High Times Magazine and co-author of The Woodstock Census (Viking), a key analysis of the Sixties Generation’s impact on American society. As a Hollywood correspondent for Rolling Stone Italia, his interviews with film stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Christina Ricci, and Billy Bob Thornton, as well as music legends like Tom Waits, Lou Reed, and Berry Gordy, have earned him a broad readership in Italy.
From 1992 to 1997, Weiner was a staff reporter at Variety and Daily Variety, covering international film, film finance, and entertainment technology. His weekly column, Lost and Found, appeared in the trade paper. He also contributed to the development of variety.com, Variety’s online edition.
A native of New York City, Weiner has lived in Los Angeles since 1981 and resides 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.
