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ARCHIVE: New York – 22 January 2008
1. STILL of Marshall Brickman speaking to reporters during news conference (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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ARCHIVE: London – 18 March 2008
2. Set-up Bob Gaudio, Four Seasons and Marshall Brickman talking to reporter
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Gaudio, Four Seasons, Marshall Brickman, writer:
Brickman: "We’re very hopeful. The audiences have been great and since we speak some of the same language we hope that it’ll be ok."
(Reporter question: "Have you got used to seeing your life story flashed before you?)
Gaudio: "I don’t think I’ll ever be used to it, it’s quite extraordinary and it’s even more extraordinary to have this story in New York, two of my favourite cities in the world, and now London, so having this happen simultaneously is really unbelievable."
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ARCHIVE: New York – 19 October 2005
4. Rick Elice, left, and Brickman, co-writers of the Broadway musical "Jersey Boys," posing in front of the August Wilson Theatre marquee (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
STORYLINE:
The Oscar-winning screenwriter Marshall Brickman, whose wide-ranging career spanned some of Woody Allen’s best films, the Broadway musical “Jersey Boys” and a number of Johnny Carson’s most beloved sketches, has died. He was 85.
Brickman died Friday in Manhattan, his daughter Sophie Brickman told The New York Times. No cause of death was cited.
Brickman was best known for his extensive collaboration with Allen, beginning with the 1973 film “Sleeper.” Together, they co-wrote “Annie Hall” (1977), “Manhattan" (1979) and “Manhattan Murder Mystery" (1993). The loosely structured script for “Annie Hall,” in particular, has been hailed as one of the wittiest comedies. It won Brickman and Allen an Oscar for best original screenplay.
In his acceptance speech (Allen skipped the ceremony), Brickman referenced one of the film’s many oft-quoted lines, saying: "I’ve been out here a week, and I still have guilt when I make a right turn on a red light.”
“If the film is worth anything,” Brickman told Vanity Fair in 2017, “it gives a very particular specific image of what it was like to be alive in New York at that time in that particular social-economic stratum.”
Brickman and Allen had met in the early 1960s, when Allen was breaking through as a stand-up comedian. Brickman was brought on to write jokes for him. At the time, he had been playing banjo for the folk group the Tarriers. In one of the many twists of Brickman’s career, it was an album he and his college roommate Eric Weissberg recorded that later made the soundtrack to 1972’s “Deliverance,” including “Dueling Banjos.”
Brickman, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was the son of Jewish socialists Abram (who fled Poland during WWII) and Pauline (Wolin) Brickman, who was from New York. They later moved to the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, where Brickman grew up. His start in show business, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin with degrees in science and music, came with the Terriers. He replaced Alan Arkin in 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 told the Writers Guild in 2011. “And so I started to develop little jokes and routines and stuff like that.”
When Brickman and Allen began writing together, they found a natural chemistry, with Brickman playing a supporting role to Allen’s semi-autobiographical material.
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