Michael and Bernard Weinstein were better known as which great double act?
"Ali. He also wrote two novels, ""Miami One Way"" and ""Razor Sharp"". His final book was a light-hearted memoir called ""The Sunny Side of Winters"". He finally moved to Fairford, Gloucestershire, with his wife of 57 years. He died on 24 August 2013 aged 86. Mike and Bernie Winters Mike and Bernie Winters were English brothers who formed a comedy double act, consisting of Mike Winters, born Michael Weinstein (15 November 1926 – 24 August 2013) and Bernie Winters, born Bernard Weinstein (6 September 1930 – 4 May 1991). The act was very popular in the United Kingdom from the"
"Harvey Weinstein Harvey Weinstein, CBE (; born March 19, 1952), is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including ""Sex, Lies, and Videotape"" (1989), ""The Crying Game"" (1992), ""Pulp Fiction"" (1994), ""Heavenly Creatures"" (1994), ""Flirting with Disaster"" (1996), and ""Shakespeare in Love"" (1998). Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing ""Shakespeare in Love"", and garnered seven Tony Awards for a variety of plays and musicals, including ""The Producers"", ""Billy Elliot the Musical"", and """". After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein"
"Bernard Watson Bernard Watson (born David Weinstein, 1967) was the opening act at the American leg of the Live Aid concert in JFK Stadium, Philadelphia on July 13, 1985. An 18-year-old from Miami Beach, he had just graduated from high school and had no professional musical experience. After sleeping outside the stadium for a week, he persuaded the concert's producer Bill Graham, in the spirit of charity, to let him perform. Graham relented, and Watson (who took his stage name from Bernard Marx and Helmholz Watson, two characters from Aldous Huxley's ""Brave New World"") took the stage at 8:51am (EDT)."
"to the Weinstein brothers' first venture as full movie producers, the cult horror film ""The Burning"", which Maylam directed and which was also the first film for Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens and Holly Hunter. Whilst in the United States, Maylam also directed a movie for ABC television, ""The Sins of Dorian Gray"", a 1983 made-for-TV adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" that starred Anthony Perkins. Tony Maylam also wrote and directed the sport film ""Hero"", featuring Diego Maradona, the Official Film of the FIFA World Cup, which received wide acclaim during its international cinema release (including"
"drugs. Perhaps the most direct similarity is that Bentley had a well-known feud with mega- producer Harvey Weinstein while on ""Entourage"" Vincent Chase had a similar feud with Harvey Weingard, the fictional version of Weinstein. According to ""Entourage"" executive producer Mark Wahlberg, ""Entourage"" was originally conceived of as a documentary about him and his friends but he chose a fictional approach to keep the content more satirical. Whereas ""Entourage"" is mostly light in tone and focuses on the flashy perks of Hollywood, "" My Big Break"" is much grittier. The documentary directly takes on the darker side of celebrity and"
"Michael A. Weinstein Michael A. Weinstein (August 24, 1942 – September 17, 2015) was an American political philosopher and political scientist, punk musician, and photography critic. He was a Guggenheim Fellow, Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, and the author or co-author of more than twenty books on a wide array of topics in philosophy. Weinstein also engaged in public political analysis, most notably with regards to the Somali civil war, but also the Unabomber, and the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuses. Weinstein's philosophical work addresses a variety of sub-fields and problems, including existentialism, American classical philosophy, vitalism,"
"Box Tops, Dionne Warwick, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Ella Fitzgerald, Linda Ronstadt, and Frank Sinatra. He occasionally used the writing pseudonym Robert Wilding. Weinstein later became an executive with the performing rights organization, Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI). He also served for 24 years on the board of the National Academy of Popular Music (NAPM), responsible for the Songwriters Hall of Fame, becoming its president between 1993 and 1999. He was inducted to the Hall of Fame, with Randazzo, in 2007. Bobby Weinstein Robert Lee ""Bobby"" Weinstein (born July 6, 1939) is an American songwriter, singer, and music industry"
"March 2, 2012, Weinstein was made a knight of the French Legion of Honour, in recognition of Miramax's efforts to increase the presence and popularity of foreign films in the United States. On October 15, 2017, President Emmanuel Macron announced his intention to revoke the award in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations. Harvey Weinstein Harvey Weinstein, CBE (; born March 19, 1952), is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including ""Sex, Lies, and Videotape"" (1989), ""The Crying Game"" (1992), ""Pulp Fiction"" (1994), ""Heavenly"
"Bob Weinstein Robert Weinstein (born October 18, 1954) is an American film producer. He is the founder and head of Dimension Films, former co-chairman of Miramax Films, and The Weinstein Company, both of which he co-founded with his brother Harvey. He has focused on making commercially successful action and horror films. Weinstein was born in Flushing, New York. He was raised in a Jewish family. His parents were Max Weinstein, a diamond cutter, and Miriam (née Postel). He grew up with his older brother, Harvey Weinstein, in a housing co-op named Electchester in New York City. Bob, his brother Harvey"
"Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the US to receive worldwide acclaim. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was ""one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."" His fame derived from his long tenure as the music director of the New York Philharmonic, from his conducting of concerts with most of the world's leading orchestras, and from his music for ""West Side Story"", ""Peter Pan"", ""Candide"", ""Wonderful Town"","
"found. Much of it was removed. However, though he was never told, Winters' condition was terminal, and he died on 4 May 1991, at the age of 60. Bernie was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in London on 8 May, and his ashes interred in the Garden of Remembrance. A memorial plaque was erected in the West Memorial Court there. Bernie Winters Bernie Winters, born Bernie Weinstein (6 September 1930 – 4 May 1991), was an English comedian and the comic relief of the double act Mike and Bernie Winters with his older brother, Mike. Winters later performed solo, often"
"who was a decade-long resident of the Hotel Chelsea in Manhattan, died on September 4, 2005 at the age of 78, of liver cancer. Notes Arnold Weinstein Arnold Weinstein (June 10, 1927–September 4, 2005) was an American poet, playwright and librettist, who referred to himself as a ""theatre poet"". Weinstein is best known for his collaborations with composer William Bolcom, including the operas ""McTeague"", based on the novel by Frank Norris, ""A View from the Bridge"" based on the play by Arthur Miller, and ""A Wedding"", based on the film by Robert Altman. Bolcom described his work with Weinstein as"
"social media under the hashtag #MeToo. The scandal's impact on powerful men in various industries came to be called the ""Weinstein effect"". Harvey Weinstein and his brother, Bob Weinstein, formed the film production company Miramax and led the company from 1979 to 2005. In March 2005, the Weinsteins founded The Weinstein Company (TWC) and departed from Miramax that September. Rumors of Harvey Weinstein's ""casting couch"" practices circulated in Hollywood for years, and entertainment figures at times alluded to them. As early as 1998, Gwyneth Paltrow said on ""Late Show with David Letterman"" that Weinstein ""will coerce you to do a"
"Mike Winters (comedian) Mike Winters, born Michael Weinstein (15 November 1926 – 24 August 2013), was an English comedian, musician, businessman and writer who was the straight man of the comedy double act Mike & Bernie Winters with his younger brother, Bernie. He was born in Islington, North London, where his father was a bookmaker. Mike won a scholarship to Tottenham Grammar School but was evacuated to Wiltshire with his younger brother where he eventually ended up at the City of Oxford High School for Boys. At 15 Winters won a scholarship and grant to the Royal Academy of Music"
"with his wife Christine. Bernstein was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film version of ""All the President's Men"", and by Bruce McCulloch in the 1999 comedy film ""Dick"". Carl Bernstein Carl Bernstein ( ; born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author. While a young reporter for ""The Washington Post"" in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called ""maybe"
"filmed for the human rights organization Amnesty International. Working closely with Martin Lewis, the producer of the original films, the Weinstein brothers edited the two films into one movie tailored for the American market. The resulting film, released as ""The Secret Policeman's Other Ball"" in May 1982, became Miramax's first hit. The movie raised considerable sums for Amnesty International and was credited by Amnesty with having helped to raise its profile in the US. The Weinsteins slowly built upon this success throughout the 1980s with arthouse films that achieved critical attention and modest commercial success. Harvey Weinstein and Miramax gained"
"has been an active member of B'nai Israel Synagogue in Baltimore. Daniel Mark Epstein Daniel Mark Epstein (born October 25, 1948) is an American poet, dramatist, and biographer. His poetry has been noted for its erotic and spiritual lyricism, as well as its power—in several dramatic monologues—in capturing crucial moments of American history. While he has continued to publish poetry he is more widely known for his biographies of Nat King Cole, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bob Dylan and Abraham Lincoln, and his radio plays, ""Star of Wonder,"" and ""The Two Menorahs,"" which have become holiday mainstays on National Public"
"Bobby Weinstein Robert Lee ""Bobby"" Weinstein (born July 6, 1939) is an American songwriter, singer, and music industry executive, whose hit songs, mostly co-written with Teddy Randazzo, include ""Goin' Out Of My Head"", ""It's Gonna Take A Miracle"", and ""I'm On The Outside (Looking In)"". He grew up in New York City, and attended the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan. While there, he formed a vocal group, The Legends, with fellow students Marshall Samples, Ron Warwell, Richard ""Chico"" Brunson, Sampson Reese and Dominick Fleres. The group won a talent contest at the Apollo Theater in 1955, and recorded for"
"Arnold Weinstein Arnold Weinstein (June 10, 1927–September 4, 2005) was an American poet, playwright and librettist, who referred to himself as a ""theatre poet"". Weinstein is best known for his collaborations with composer William Bolcom, including the operas ""McTeague"", based on the novel by Frank Norris, ""A View from the Bridge"" based on the play by Arthur Miller, and ""A Wedding"", based on the film by Robert Altman. Bolcom described his work with Weinstein as a ""true collaboration"", and said about him that ""He had such a gift for writing words that were singable, and that gave character. He was"
"was such a success that they continued for five years, starring not only local young talent but also Davy Jones of the Monkees. He published five books including a biography of Angelo Dundee and ""The Axis of Greatness"" about the relationship between Angelo and his boxers Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali. His two novels are ""Miami One Way"" and ""Razor Sharp"" and his last book was a light-hearted memoir called ""The Sunny Side Of Winters"". Mike Winters (comedian) Mike Winters, born Michael Weinstein (15 November 1926 – 24 August 2013), was an English comedian, musician, businessman and writer who"
"the former Joan Anker, a son, the contemporary artist Matthew Weinstein, and two daughters, Claudia, of Manhattan, and Tamara, of Atlanta, Georgia I. Bernard Weinstein I. Bernard Weinstein (c. 1930 – November 3, 2008) was an American physician and researcher who studied the effect of pollutants and other environmental factors in causing cancer and headed the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University. He has been credited with helping create the field of molecular epidemiology, which studies how genetic and environmental risk factors are related to the spread of disease in populations. Weinstein was born in Madison, Wisconsin and earned an"
"a 1996 theatre piece by post-modern choreographer-director-writer David Gordon and composer Edward Barnes, both of which were originally produced by Robert Brustein's American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the American Music Theatre Festival in Philadelphia. In his long career, Weinstein also collaborated with Philip Glass, Andy Warhol, Howard Kanovitz, and Marisol. In addition to his writing, Weinstein taught playwriting at Yale and Columbia Universities. Weinstein was married three times, each marriage ending in divorce, and he had a daughter, who is deceased. In 1997, he was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer, and received treatment from Dr. Emanuel Revici. Weinstein,"
"the opportunity to perform with Michael at his cabaret in New York. In 2009 Feinstein became the artistic director of The Center for the Performing Arts. located in Carmel, Indiana. Construction of the $170-million, three-theater venue was completed in January, 2011. The Center is home to an annual international arts festival, diverse live programming, and The Great American Songbook Foundation, Michael Feinstein, founder. In 2009, Feinstein teamed up with Cheyenne Jackson to create a nightclub act titled ""The Power of Two"". The show was hailed by ""The New York Times"" as ""passionate"", ""impeccably harmonized"" and ""groundbreaking"". ""Variety"" acclaimed it as"
"The Reluctant Star, a documentary on Leslie Caron, premiered at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Larry Weinstein Larry Weinstein (born 1956 in Toronto) is a Canadian film director of theatrical and television documentaries, performance films, and dramas. The majority of his films centre on musical subjects and the depiction of the creative process, while his other subjects range from the horrors of war to the pleasures of football. Weinstein began to make films as a teenager while attending Earl Haig Secondary School. He went on to attend York University's film school. This led to teaming up with Barbara Willis Sweete and"
"clear and unmysterious. . .the score is capably crafted and the audience was taken with it. Reviewing the premiere of the Concerto for Wind Ensemble, Richard Buell wrote in the Boston Globe, “. . .this big, massive piece showed poise, finish, clear-headedness, an attractive fascination with line. It had the radiance of potential realizing itself. He is currently the head of the music department of the Cambridge School of Weston and serves on the faculties of the Berklee College of Music the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division. Michael H. Weinstein Michael H."
"Michael Feinstein Michael Jay Feinstein (born September 7, 1956) is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist. He is an interpreter of, and an anthropologist and archivist for, the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988 he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theatre songs. Feinstein is also a multi-platinum-selling, five-time Grammy-nominated recording artist. He currently serves as Artistic Director for The Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana. Feinstein was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Florence Mazie (née Cohen), an amateur tap dancer, and Edward Feinstein, a sales executive for"
"Daniel Mark Epstein Daniel Mark Epstein (born October 25, 1948) is an American poet, dramatist, and biographer. His poetry has been noted for its erotic and spiritual lyricism, as well as its power—in several dramatic monologues—in capturing crucial moments of American history. While he has continued to publish poetry he is more widely known for his biographies of Nat King Cole, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bob Dylan and Abraham Lincoln, and his radio plays, ""Star of Wonder,"" and ""The Two Menorahs,"" which have become holiday mainstays on National Public Radio. Daniel Mark Epstein was born in Washington D.C., the son"
"Matthew Weinstein Matthew Weinstein (born May 6, 1964 in New York City) is a noted and versatile contemporary American visual artist, installation sculptor and film maker. Matthew Weinstein's early works throughout the 1990s focused on gestural abstraction, cartoon drawing, photographic-based imagery of ghostly images, and a fascination with blood, death, skulls and bones. Currently, Weinstein's primary medium is 3D animation and 3D rendering. Using the 3D modeling and rendering program Maya, he creates videos of animated spectacles, involving actors, musicians and animators. He then creates paintings and sculptures using a wide variety of technologies, such as bronze casting, rapid prototyping"
"Moses M. Weinstein Moses M. Weinstein (July 8, 1912 – November 30, 2007 Pembroke Pines, Broward County, Florida) was an American lawyer and politician. He was born Morris Weinstein without middle initial. A playbill for a production at Brooklyn College added erroneously the middle initial, and a mistaken inscription of his degree at Brooklyn Law School changed Morris to Moses which name he adopted henceforth. He was born on July 8, 1912, in New York City, the son of a tailor, and grew up on the Lower East Side, Manhattan. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School at 15, but"
"Patient"". (""Pulp Fiction"" was nominated in 1995 but lost to ""Forrest Gump"".) This started a string of critical successes that included ""Good Will Hunting"" (1997) and ""Shakespeare in Love"" (1998), both of which won several awards, including numerous Academy Awards. The Weinstein brothers left Miramax on September 30, 2005, to form their own production company, The Weinstein Company, with several other media executives, directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, and Colin Vaines, who had successfully run the production department at Miramax for 10 years. In February 2011, filmmaker Michael Moore took legal action against the Weinstein brothers, claiming he was"
"him a ""double voice"" when he speaks. Prior to puberty, Fierstein was a soprano in a professional boys' choir. The gravel-voiced actor is best known for the play and film ""Torch Song Trilogy"", which he wrote and starred in both Off-Broadway (with a young Matthew Broderick) and on Broadway (with Estelle Getty and Fisher Stevens). The 1982 Broadway production won him two Tony Awards, for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play, two Drama Desk Awards, for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Actor in a Play, and the Theatre World Award, and the film adaptation earned him an Independent"
"to try and raise a fist to us, push us and assault us, we would be glad to enforce a citizen’s arrest when there’s some semblance of cooperation from the aggressor. Unfortunately, we had to resort to a certain level of force, and we made it very clear the days of Jews being attacked and being docile are long over."" However, there is no evidence that the victims had engaged in any form of violence. Meir Weinstein Marvin Weinstein (born August 18, 1957) known as Meir Weinstein and previously known as Meir Halevi is the national director of the Canadian"
"racism."" Time Out Boston described ""My America"" as ""chilling."" According to IMDB, Webber ""Milkweed"" is scheduled for release later this year, and also stars Mark Wahlberg's eldest brother, Arthur. Rod Webber Rod Webber is an American musician, filmmaker and actor. Though, in his early music career he shared the stage with anti-folk acts Daniel Johnston (""The Devil and Daniel Johnston"") and Kimya Dawson, (former Moldy Peaches) Webber is probably best known for his improvisational films and documentaries, many of which were created using Webber's personal manifesto which is sited in various publications about the filmmaker. Webber has twice directed former"