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Waxman
Waxman, or alternatively Wachsmann, is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Al Waxman (1935–2001), Canadian actor *Alois Wachsman (1898–1942), Czech painter and architect *Bedřich Wachsmann (1820–1897), Czech painter and architect * Chaim I. Waxman (born 1941), sociologist *Daniel Wachsmann (born 1946), Israeli filmmaker, producer, and director *David Waxman, DJ, remixer and producer * Esther Wachsmann (or Esther Hamerman; 1886–1977), Polish-born American painter *Franz Waxman (1906–1967), composer *Harry Waxman (1912–1984), English cinematographer *Henry Waxman (born 1939), U.S. Representative * Jiří Voskovec (Wachsmann) (1905–1981), Czech-US actor *Jonathan Waxman (born 1950), American chef *Keoni Waxman (born 1968), American film director *Klaus Wachsmann (1907–1984), ethnomusicologist * Konrad Wachsmann (1901–1980), architect * Matthew Waxman (born ca. 1972), American law professor and author *Michael Waxman, American film and television direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Waxman
Henry Arnold Waxman (born September 12, 1939) is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1975 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His district included much of the western part of the city of Los Angeles, as well as West Hollywood, Santa Monica, and Beverly Hills, and was numbered the 24th district from 1975 to 1993, the 29th district from 1993 to 2003, and the 30th district from 2003 to 2013, changing because of redistricting after the 1990, 2000, and 2010 censuses. He now serves as chairman at Waxman Strategies, a D. C.-based communications and lobbying firm, working on health care, environmental, energy, technology, financial services, labor, and telecommunications issues. In addition, he serves as a Regent Lecturer for University of California, Los Angeles, and as an advisor and lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Waxman was considered to be one of the most influential liberal members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Waxman
Franz Waxman (né Wachsmann; December 24, 1906February 24, 1967) was a German-born composer and conductor of Jewish descent, known primarily for his work in the film music genre. His film scores include ''Bride of Frankenstein'', ''Rebecca'', ''Sunset Boulevard'', '' A Place in the Sun'', ''Stalag 17'', ''Rear Window'', '' Peyton Place'', ''The Nun's Story'', and ''Taras Bulba''. He received twelve Academy Award nominations, and won two Oscars in consecutive years (for ''Sunset Boulevard'' and ''A Place in the Sun''). He also received a Golden Globe Award for the former film. Bernard Herrmann said that the score for ''Taras Bulba'' was "the score of a lifetime." He also composed concert works, including the oratorio ''Joshua'' (1959), and ''The Song of Terezín'' (1964–65), a work for orchestra, chorus, and children's chorus based upon poetry written by children in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. Waxman also founded the Los Angeles Music Festiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Waxman
Matthew C. Waxman (born about 1972) is an American law professor at Columbia University and author who held several positions during the George W. Bush administration. He is also currently a Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Education Waxman is a graduate of Yale College ''summa cum laude'', where he studied political science and international studies, and Yale Law School. He served as law clerk to Supreme Court justice David H. Souter and U.S. Court of Appeals judge Joel M. Flaum and is a member and international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a Fulbright Scholar at King's College London, where he studied military history."Wendy Katz, Matthew Waxman" (limited no-charge access) ''The New York Times'', August 15, 2009. Retrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Waxman
Albert Samuel Waxman, (March 2, 1935 – January 18, 2001) was a Canadian actor and director of over 1,000 productions on radio, television, film, and stage. He is best known for his starring roles in the television series '' King of Kensington'' ( CBC) and '' Cagney & Lacey'' ( CBS) and '' Twice in a Lifetime'' (CTV). Early life Waxman was born in Toronto, Ontario to Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents operated and owned Melinda Lunch, a small restaurant. His father, Aaron Waxman, died when Al was nine. Career Waxman's career began at the age of twelve on CBC Radio, but it was not until 1975, when he began playing the role of Larry King on CBC's '' King of Kensington'', that he became a Canadian icon. In the 1980 award-winning film ''Atlantic City'' starring Burt Lancaster, Waxman appeared as a rich cocaine buyer with a seemingly endless amount of cash. During the 1980s, Waxman starred as the gruff but endearing Lt. Bert Samuels in the highly successful CBS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Waxman
Sharon I. Waxman (born c.1963) is an American author, journalist, and blogger who has been a correspondent for ''The Washington Post'' and ''The New York Times'', and founded the Hollywood and media business news site ''TheWrap'' in early 2009. Biography Sharon Waxman is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author and the founder and editor-in-chief of TheWrap. She is also the host of “TheWrap-Up” podcast, creator of TheGrill business conference on the convergence of entertainment and technology as well as the creator of the Power Women series focused on women’s leadership, including the Power Women Summit, the largest annual gathering of women in media and entertainment. A leading authority on the entertainment business and media, Waxman was the Hollywood correspondent for ''The New York Times'' and a correspondent for eight years for ''The Washington Post''. She started out as a foreign correspondent, covering Europe and the Middle East for a decade. She is the aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordecai Waxman
Mordecai Waxman, KCSG (February 25, 1917, in Albany – August 10, 2002, in Great Neck, New York), was a prominent rabbi in the Conservative Jewish movement for nearly 60 years. He served as rabbi of Temple Israel in Great Neck, New York for 55 years from 1947 through his death in 2002. He is most notable for his interactions with Pope John Paul II in the 1980s as chairman of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations. Waxman was the author of ''Tradition and Change: The Development of Conservative Judaism'', published in 1958. He also served as editor of the journal, ''Conservative Judaism'' for five years, from 1969 to 1974. Waxman received his bachelor's degree at the University of Chicago and was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. He was an Army chaplain during World War II, serving in Fort Dix, New Jersey and served from 1941 to 1942 as rabbi of Temple Beth Israel (Niagara Falls, New York), and also in Chica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Waxman
Sidney Waxman (1923–2005) was an American botanist and horticulturist who served as Professor of Ornamental Horticulture at the University of Connecticut's main campus in Storrs for more than thirty years (1957-1991), continuing to work on his ornamentals long after retirement. His research interests included plant photoperiodism, tissue culture, and witches’ brooms. He founded UConn's experimental plant nursery and built a national reputation for cultivation of dwarf conifers from witch's brooms, developing and naming thirty-four distinct cultivars. He also cultivated Japanese umbrella pines, larches, cinnamon bark maple, hemlocks, and azaleas. Waxman raised more than 200,000 seedlings to create a total of forty cultivars. Many of his varieties were sold in plant nurseries and garden centers. Born in Providence in 1923, Waxman worked as a pipefitter at a shipyard in New London, Connecticut, before enlisting in the U.S. Navy and serving as an aircraft mechanic duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Clean Energy And Security Act
The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) was an energy bill in the 111th United States Congress () that would have established a variant of an emissions trading plan similar to the European Union Emission Trading Scheme. The bill was approved by the House of Representatives on June 26, 2009, by a vote of 219–212. With no prospect of overcoming a threatened Republican filibuster, the bill was never brought to the floor of the Senate for discussion or a vote. The House passage of the bill was the "first time either house of Congress had approved a bill meant to curb the heat-trapping gases scientists have linked to climate change." The bill was also known as the Waxman-Markey Bill, after its authors, Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats. Waxman was at the time the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Markey was the chairman of that committee's Energy and Power Subcommittee. Summary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Waxman
Jonathan Waxman is an American chef who was one of the pioneers of California cuisine and is credited with being the first to bring its style, fusing French cooking techniques with the freshest local ingredients, to New York. Biography Born in 1950, Waxman grew up near Berkeley, California. After graduating from the University of Nevada at Reno, he found work playing in bands at casinos and later with a rock band named "Lynx". Waxman eventually gave up his career as a trombonist to study at La Varenne cooking school in France. In 1979, he and restaurateur Michael McCarty opened Michael's Restaurant in an old mansion near the Santa Monica beach; the groundbreaking cuisine attracted diners from all over America. Five years later, he opened Jams Restaurant on East 79th Street in New York; the chance to dine with what ''New York Magazine'' called "an elder statesman of the new California cooking" made Jams the most sought after dining sensation of the season. His work at Jams made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Waxman
Stephen George Waxman (born 1945) is an American neurologist and neuroscientist. He served as Chairman of the Department of Neurology at Yale School of Medicine, and Neurologist-in-Chief at Yale-New Haven Hospital from 1986 until 2009. As of 2018, he is the Bridget Flaherty Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Pharmacology at Yale University. He founded the Yale University Neuroscience & Regeneration Research Center in 1988 and is its Director. He previously held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School, MIT, and Stanford Medical School. He is also visiting professor at University College London. He is the editor-in-chief of ''The Neuroscientist'' and ''Neuroscience Letters''. Education Waxman received his BA from Harvard University (1967), and his PhD (1970) and MD (1972) degrees from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After finishing medical and graduate school, Waxman trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School, and a Resident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meyer Waxman
Meyer Waxman (; 1887 – March 7, 1969) was an Imperial Russian-born American rabbi, historian, and scholar. He best known for his six-volume work ''A History of Jewish Literature'', published in 1960. Biography Waxman was born in Slutsk, and received a traditional education at Hasidic yeshivas there and in Mir. He emigrated to the United States in 1905 and studied at New York University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he was ordained as a rabbi in 1913, and Columbia University, where he received a doctorate in philosophy in 1916. He served for some years in rabbinical posts in Sioux City and in Albany, before returning to New York to become founder and principal of the Mizrachi Teachers Seminary (1917–21). From 1920 to 1924, he served as Executive Director of the Mizrachi Zionist organization. In 1924 he joined the faculty of the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago, where he served as professor of Hebrew literature and philosophy until his retirement in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Waxman
Michael Waxman is American director and producer of film and television. He is best known for his collaborations with film director Michael Mann, as well as for directing episodes of: '' Friday Night Lights'', '' Trauma'', ''The Event'' and ''Prime Suspect''. Life and career Waxman was raised in Brooklyn, New York and is a graduate of Brooklyn College. In film, he worked as an assistant director for every film directed by Michael Mann, dating back to '' Manhunter'' (1986). His other film credits as an assistant director include '' When Harry Met Sally...'' (1989), '' Drop Dead Fred'' (1991), ''Highway to Hell'' (1992), '' Rudy'' (1993), '' Monkey Trouble'' (1994) and producing and assistant directing the films ''A Low Down Dirty Shame'' (1994). '' Celtic Pride'' (1996) and ''Metro'' (1997). In 2006, Waxman became an assistant director on the television series '' Friday Nights Lights''. He made the head directorial debut of his career on that series in 2008 going on to direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
