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Marshall Brickman

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Screenwriter

The Resume

    (August 25, 1939- )
    Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Musician and screenwriter
    Played banjo in the Tarriers and the New Journeymen
    Wrote for The Tonight Show, Candid Camera, and The Dick Cavett Show
    Collaborated with Woody Allen on screenplays for ‘Sleeper’ (1973), ‘Annie Hall’ (1977), ‘Manhattan’ (1979), and ‘Manhattan Murder Mystery’ (1993)
    With Rick Elice wrote the books for the Broadway musicals ‘Jersey Boys’ (2005) and ‘The Addams Family’ (2010)

Why he might be annoying:

    An album he recorded with Eric Weissberg, ‘New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass’ (1963), was reissued as ‘Dueling Banjos’ (1973) with his name removed and the title song tacked on.
    When he saw the first rough cut of ‘Annie Hall,’ ‘I thought it was terrible, completely unsalvageable.’
    His attempt to move from comedy to drama as writer and director of ‘The Manhattan Project’ (1986) was a box office bomb, returning less than a quarter of its budget in ticket sales.

Why he might not be annoying:

    While he was a student at the University of Wisconsin, Bob Dylan crashed in his apartment temporarily. (‘He said he was going to go to New York and become bigger than Elvis.’)
    He was one of the writers of the television pilot ‘The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence.’ (1975)
    His ‘Playbill’ parody ‘Who’s Who in the Cast’ (1976) was popular enough to be reprinted in The New Yorker’s special theater issue (1993).
    He and Allen won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for ‘Annie Hall.’
    He was nominated for a Tony for ‘Jersey Boys.’

Credit: C. Fishel


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