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Oscar-winning screenwriter Marshall Brickman, whose extensive career extends Woody Allen Best Broadway Music Video “Jersey Boys” And some of Johnny Carson's favorite sketches are dead. He is 85 years old.
Brickman dies Friday in Manhattan with daughter Sophie Brickman Told the New York Times. No cause of death has been identified.
Brickman is best known for his extensive collaboration with Allen, beginning with the 1973 film “Sleeper.” They co-wrote “Annie Hall” (1977), “Manhattan” (1979) and “Manhattan Murder Mystery” (1993). In particular, the loose-structured script for “Annie Hall” was hailed as the smartest joke. It won an Oscar for Brickman and Allen for Best Original Screenplay.
In his acceptance speech (Allen skipped the ceremony), Brickman referred to several of the film's quoted lines, saying, “I came here in a week and I was still wrong when I turned on the red light. ”
Brickman “If the film is worth it” Told Vanity Fair In 2017, “it provides a specific picture of what it was like to live in New York at the time in that particular socio-economic situation.”
Brickman and Allen met in the early 1960s, when Allen was splitting up as a stand-up comedian. Brickman was brought in to write a joke for him. At the time, he was playing banjo for the Tarriers. During Brickman's career, one of the many changes was the album he and his roommate Eric Weissberg made. The recording, which later adapted the tune of 1972's “Deliverance,” including “Dueling Banjos.”
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Brickman was the son of Jewish socialist Abram (who fled Poland during World War II) and Pauline (Wolin) Brickman from New York. They later moved to the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, where Brickman grew up. His start in the show business after graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in science and music came with the Tarriers. He replaced Alan Arkin In groups.
“One of the reasons I was asked to join was because they needed someone to lead the team and talk while everyone was preparing,” Brickman told The Writers. Guild In 2011. “So I started making jokes and habits and stories like this.”
In the late 1960s, Brickman was the author of Carson's “The Tonight Show.” There, his longest-running contribution was the drawing of Carnac the Magnificent, during which Carson acted as a “mystery from the East” who could provide divine answers to invisible questions. Brickman's other TV shows include “Candid Camera”, “The Dick Cavett Show” and “The Muppet Show”.
When Brickman and Allen began writing together, they discovered natural chemistry, with Brickman acting as an aid to Allen's biographical material.
“We did not write the scenes together. “I think it's dead for any collaboration,” Brickman told the Writers Guild. “No, I think in any collaboration, one person, one personality, one point of view.”
Brickman wrote and directed the 1980s drama “Simon,” starring Arkin, a psychology professor who was brainwashed into believing he was from space. He also directed 1983 “Lovesick” with Alec Guinness, the ghost of Sigmund Freud, and 1986 “The Manhattan Project” about a high school student who developed a nuclear weapon for a school project.
With Rick Elice writing the music, Brickman wrote the Broadway song “Jersey Boys” about the 1960 rock band The Four Seasons. It has been operating on Broadway for 12 years, starting in 2005. He and Elice also wrote the song “The Addams Family” in 2010.
Brickman is survived by his wife Nina, daughters Sophie and Jessica and five grandchildren.
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