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Rex Weiner and Andrew Dice Clay
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THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE
by REX WEINER
Life sucks, and so does disco. From Manhattan to L.A. in the 1970s, private detective Ford Fairlane, works the music business. Studio 54 uptown or the Mudd Club downtown, something always knocks him on his butt. It's never pretty, but pretty isn't the right word for the Punk Rock babes in the two original novellas that inspired the cult movie The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.
Shirley in a red-white-and-blue Mohawk is the personification of Downtown New York Punk. Any babe this hot has got to be naughty. Under Ford’s protection, now she’s disappeared. Her record company is pissed and she thinks they sent Ford to ruin her life—but unless Ford finds her, her life is over.
Wanda and the Whips are L.A.’s hottest band. Wanda is beyond hot but Ford finds that babysitting Wanda is like the worst blind date ever. Losing her to a psycho stalker, Ford races against time from the Starwood in Hollywood to the Cuckoo’s Nest in Costa Mesa, as things get hot and heavy.
 THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE, the 1990 movie starring Andrew Dice, directed by Renny Harlin for 20th Century Fox, has become a worldwide cult classic with a dedicated fanbase around the world. The movie was based on original stories by journalist Rex Weiner.
Unavailable since first publication in 1980 as serialized weekly episodes in the New York Rocker and the LA Weekly, the two gritty tales follow private eye Ford Fairlane, the music industry’s “rock n roll detective,” as he solves cases involving the punk rock and new wave scenes in New York City and Los Angeles in the late-1970’s. The stories include real musicians of the period such as Jame Chance of the Contortions, and real places such as the Starwood, a Los Angeles rock palace long since demolished, where punk stars such as Darby Crash regularly performed.
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Rex Weiner
(Photograph by John W. Farrell)
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“In response to many requests," said Rex Weiner, "I’m pleased that Cultmachine is offering these stories through Kindle Publishing in which I created the character played on the big screen by the Diceman—and a new story sequel if enough fans demand it.”
Rex Weiner co-founded and published the pioneering New York Ace newspaper (1972-73) and according to his FBI file is a founding member of the editorial staff of High Times Magazine. Weiner's feature articles have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Observer and LA Weekly. His last New York publishing job was editor of Swank ("The Magazine For Men") before moving west to Los Angeles. In addition to The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Rex Weiner's produced screenwriting credits include Forgotten Prisoners, The Amnesty Files, one of TNT's first made-for TV movies. He was one of the first writers brought on board to launch the TV series Miami Vice.
Weiner ruined morning coffee for many entertainment industry executives as a Daily Variety staff reporter from 1992 -1997. With Deanne Stillman, Weiner co-authored The Woodstock Census (Viking), a widely-hailed survey of the Sixties Generation's impact on American society. He is currently Hollywood correspondent for Rolling Stone Italia as well as West Coast Correspondent for the Jewish Daily Forward, for which he is covering the 2013 Los Angeles mayoral race, the subject of his next book. He lives in Los Angeles and in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
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