The Resume

(February 17, 1917-January 30, 2007)
Born in Chicago, Illinois
Died at 89 of medical complications from pneumonia in Rancho Mirage, California
Birth name is Sidney Schechtel to a German father and Russian mother (both Jews)
Authored 'Rage of Angels,' 'If Tomorrow Comes,' 'Master of the Game,' 'The Other Side of Midnight,' 'Windmills of the Mind' and 'The Other Side of Me'
Won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ('The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer')
Produced 'The Patty Duke

Why he might be annoying:

It took him a full year to rewrite a novel.
He used cliffhangers to end each chapter.
He was bipolar.
He sometimes used a secretary instead of a typewriter of his own to pound out his material.
He doesn't believe any medium other than books offers total freedom of creative movement.

Why he might not be annoying:

He sold a poem for $10 (age 10) and a screenplay to Universal Studios for $250.
He was an Army Air Corps pilot.
Most of his material was based on stalwart women surviving a brutal world of ruthless men. Thus, women accounted for the bulk of his readership.
He won the ultimate entertainment trifecta: a Tony, an Oscar, and an Emmy.
The authenticity of his material was important to him ('if I write about a place, I have been there… I don't think you can fool the reader').
His first marriage lasted more than 30 years.

Credit: Cool It All Right?

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Cool It All Right?'s Profiles [Series 03]
• Golden Girls References
• I am from Chicago
• I Attended Northwestern
• I Died in 2007 (Ranked: 89)
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[R-T]
• I Married in 1989
• I Write Pulp Fiction
• I'm Depressed [Reportedly Manic/Bi-polar]
• Pilots
• Profiles 19501-19750 (Ranked: 19653)
• We Married in Las Vegas

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 9 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 26 Votes: 57.69% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 31 Votes: 41.94% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 99 Votes: 49.49% Annoying