Wein admitted in his report that soft dollar firms were taking business from his firm.

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And beside me was Len Wein, who was involved with the original Watchmen books.

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"We wanted to subvert the genre, " says Ms. Lister-Jones, who wrote the screenplay with her real-life romantic partner, director Daryl Wein.

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Eight years after the first Newport Jazz Festival, New Orleans tourism and business leaders approached Wein about creating a similar festival in New Orleans.

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