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

Marshall Brickman (right) with Woody Allen in 1973. The screenwriter, who won an Oscar for best original screenplay with Allen for Annie Hall, has died aged 85. Marshall Brickman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who wrote some of Woody Allen ’s best films, the Broadway musical Jersey Boys and a number of Johnny Carson’s most beloved sketches, has died aged 85. Brickman died Friday in Manhattan, his daughter Sophie Brickman told the New York Times. No cause of death was given. The screenwriter was best known for his collaboration with Allen, beginning with the 1973 film Sleeper. Together they wrote Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993). The loosely structured script for Annie Hall was the voted funniest screenplay ever written in 2015 by the Writers Guild of America. It won Brickman and Allen an Oscar for best original screenplay. In his solo 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.” Allen told the New York Times on Sunday that, other than his collaboration with Douglas McGrath on Bullets Over Broadway, he could not remember writing a movie screenplay with anyone else. “Those were special days for me,” Allen said. “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 in the early 1960s when Allen was breaking through as a standup 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, […]

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