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Writer-Director Haskell Wexler, an Oscar winner who has built a reputation for himself as one of Hollywood's best cinematographers (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Loved One), scraped together $600,000 for this low-budget portrait of a country in conflict with itself. He chose Chicago, with its thousands of pent-up blacks and displaced Appalachian whites, as a symbolic seat of the conflict and began shooting last summer in a loose, almost documentary fashion-just as the convention confrontation was reaching a peak of frenzy. The uncomplicated plot turns on the developing love affair...
Mechanics of Illusion. Throughout Medium Cool, Wexler makes his presence known behind the camera. In what must stand as one of the most gripping sequences in modern film making, the Illinois National Guard fire tear gas at a group of terrified youngsters while one of Wexler's assistants is heard to scream off-camera: "Watch out, Haskell, it's real!" Still, Wexler's dramatic attempts to reconcile personal and public crises lead him occasionally to overload his film. The romance never quite has the passion and urgency that it should, and the novice director's infatuation...
Married. Jacqueline Grennan, 42, outspoken president of Missouri's Webster College and a former nun, who received dispensation to leave the Roman Catholic sisterhood in 1967; and Paul Joseph Wexler, 49, Jewish recording-company executive; he for the second time; in a private ceremony conducted by a Jesuit priest; in Webster Groves...
Then 18 months ago she switched to Atlantic Records, which for two decades has specialized in bedrock rhythm & blues. Savvy Producer Jerry Wexler backed her with a funky Memphis rhythm section (which she ably joined on piano), and cut her loose to swing into the soul groove. Her first disk, I Never Loved a Man, sold a million copies. "It had looked for the longest time like I would never have a gold record," she says. "I wanted...
Released posthumously in January, Dock of the Bay has already sold 1,400,000 copies, and was No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart last week for the fourth straight week. "All this acclamation for Otis is new," says Atlantic Records Executive Vice President Jerry Wexler. "It's his epitaph, and it proves that a singer can do his own thing and still be commercially successful. Otis is tremendously responsible for the fact that so much of the young white audience now digs Soul the way the black does." In the vaults are 40 or so sides...