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Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen’s Oscar-winning co-writer, dies aged 85

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Marshall Brickman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who wrote a few of Woody Allen ’s finest movies, the Broadway musical Jersey Boys and plenty of Johnny Carson’s most beloved sketches, has died aged 85.

Brickman died Friday in Manhattan, his daughter Sophie Brickman advised the New York Instances. No reason for demise was given.

The screenwriter was finest recognized for his collaboration with Allen, starting with the 1973 movie Sleeper. Collectively they wrote Annie Corridor (1977), Manhattan (1979) and Manhattan Homicide Thriller (1993). The loosely structured script for Annie Corridor was the voted funniest screenplay ever written in 2015 by the Writers Guild of America. It gained Brickman and Allen an Oscar for finest authentic screenplay.

In his solo acceptance speech – Allen skipped the ceremony – Brickman referenced one of many movie’s many oft-quoted strains, saying: “I’ve been out here a week, and I still have guilt when I make a right turn on a red light.”

Allen advised the New York Instances on Sunday that, aside from his collaboration with Douglas McGrath on Bullets Over Broadway, he couldn’t bear in mind writing a film screenplay with anybody else.

“Those were special days for me,” Allen mentioned. “Writing films by myself is a much more spartan kind of thing. I’m alone.”

He added: “There are many people making a living from comedy, but really authentically funny people, there aren’t a lot of them. I felt Marshall was an authentically funny person — a wonderful wit. He stood out from the crowd.”

The Tarriers in 1962: Eric Weissberg, Bob Carey, Marshall Brickman and Clarence Cooper. {Photograph}: Decca

Brickman and Allen met within the early Nineteen Sixties when Allen was breaking by as a standup comic. Brickman was introduced on to put in writing jokes for him. On the time, he had been enjoying banjo for the people group the Tarriers. In one of many many twists of Brickman’s profession, it was an album he and his school roommate, Eric Weissberg, recorded that later made the soundtrack to 1972’s Deliverance, together with Dueling Banjos.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1939, Brickman was the son of Jewish socialists Abram, who fled Poland in the course of the second world warfare, and Pauline (Wolin) Brickman, who was from New York. They moved to Brooklyn, the place Brickman grew up. His begin in present enterprise, after graduating from the College of Wisconsin with levels in science and music, got here with the Tarriers. He changed Alan Arkin within the group.

“One of the reasons I was asked to join was because they needed somebody to front the group and talk while everybody was tuning up,” Brickman advised the Writers Guild in 2011. “And so I started to develop little jokes and routines and stuff like that.”

By the late 60s, Brickman was head author for Carson’s The Tonight Present. There, one in every of his most enduring contributions had been the Carnac the Magnificent sketches, throughout which Carson performed a “mystic from the East” who may divine solutions to unseen questions. Brickman’s different TV stints included Candid Digicam, The Dick Cavett Present and The Muppet Present.

“My life,” Brickman advised the Guardian in 2021, “is no example of how to plan a creative life whatsoever. My only philosophy is that I pick projects where I don’t mind having lunch with the people.”

When Brickman and Allen started writing collectively, they discovered a pure chemistry, with Brickman enjoying a supporting position to Allen’s semi-autobiographical materials.

“We didn’t write scenes together,” Brickman advised the Writers Guild. “I think that’s the death for any collaboration.

“I don’t think there’s any such thing really as an equal collaboration. I think that in any collaboration, one person, one personality, one point of view has to dominate.”

Brickman wrote and directed the 1980 movie Simon, starring Arkin as a psychology professor brainwashed into believing he’s from outer house. He additionally directed 1983’s Lovesick, with Alec Guinness because the ghost of Sigmund Freud, and 1986’s The Manhattan Undertaking, a few excessive schooler who builds a nuclear weapon for a college venture.

With Rick Elice penning the music, Brickman wrote the Broadway musical Jersey Boys, in regards to the Nineteen Sixties rock group the 4 Seasons. It ran on Broadway for 12 years starting in 2005. He and Elice additionally wrote the 2010 musical The Addams Household.

Brickman is survived by his spouse, Nina, daughters Sophie and Jessica, and 5 grandchildren.

– Related Press contributed to this report

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