Word: wexler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named Norman Wexler reportedly wrote Joe's screenplay in about a week. It shows. This movie has one of the most preposterous plots of all time, full of the kind of implausible events that made comic books so irresistibly attractive just before puberty...
...which would be quite fine, were it not for Wexler's insistence on mixing politics with the fun and games. Not real politics, but tabloid-style politics. Rabble-rousing that titillates all by playing on everyone's prejudices to no one's advantage...
...cast. Director John G. Avildsen keeps the whole thing moving, but it is unfortunate that the script's political pussy-footing and fierce determination to touch all the exploitational bases (to the extent of sacrificing all credibility) trips him up from time to time. Perhaps if screenwriter Wexler had spent, say, a month on the screenplay, Joe might have had the uncomplicated force necessary to qualify it as great trashy filmmaking-a category of which Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley must remain the summer's outstanding example...
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY William D. Revelli, D.Mus., bandmaster at the University of Michigan. Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, LL.D., president of Hunter College...
...campus in Manhattan. The so-called "People's Coalition" made 34 demands, including equal student and faculty representation on all policymaking bodies, greater autonomy for the Black and Puerto Rican Studies department, and curriculum changes at Hunter High School, which is affiliated with the college. Mrs. Jacqueline Wexler, a former nun who recently became Hunter's new president, agreed with many of the demands and suspended classes to permit broader participation in negotiations, but she refused to deal only with the radical demonstrators. She was also reluctant to call in the police. "I'm not about...