News Source: The New York Times
| 2 months ago
His death was confirmed by his wife, Pat, who said the cause was cancer. Achieving success in film, television and theater, Mr. Gelbart was in select company among comedy writers. He could boast of Tony and Emmy awards as well as Oscar nominations.
News Source: Uinta County News
| 2 months ago
Comedy writer Larry Gelbart, who co-created M*A*S*H and co-wrote the Dustin Hoffman movie Tootsie , has died...Gelbart got his big break writing jokes for comedians Sid Caesar and Danny Thomas and became a staff member on The Red Buttons Show in the...
News Source: Reuters
| 2 months ago
Writer Larry Gelbart, who developed the hit television show "M*A*S*H" that uncovered a rich wellspring of comedy and pathos in war, died of cancer on Friday at age 81. He died in Los Angeles, his talent company, Creative Artists Agency told Reuters.
News Source: Miami Herald
| 2 months ago
Maude' star among TV Academy Hall of Fame inductees Maude and Golden Girls star Bea Arthur is happily poised to enter the TV Academy Hall of Fame, but she acknowledges it's her fault the recognition didn't come sooner. Arthur says the academy...
News Source: The Orange County Register
| 2 months ago
Larry Gelbart, the award-winning writer whose sly, sardonic wit helped create such hits as Broadway's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," the films "Tootsie" and "Oh, God!" and television's "M-A-S-H," is dead. Gelbart died at his...
News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 2 months ago
As Dean and Dan Caten prepare to receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame, the Canadian brothers behind DSquared say their success in the fashion world is probably due to their modest Toronto upbringing. The elimination of the Canadian Musical...