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3 unusual facts about Norman Wexler


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Norman Wexler, American screenwriter, in Bob Zmuda's Andy Kaufman Revealed

Norman Wexler

He was reported to have suffered from severe mental illness, reportedly bipolar disorder, and was arrested in 1972 for threatening to shoot President Richard Nixon.

In the book Andy Kaufman Revealed, Bob Zmuda, Kaufman's friend and writer, relates his experiences working as an assistant for an extremely eccentric, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, prone to pulling stunts that ranged from the bizarre to the profane.



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