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Larry Gelbart, 1928-2009 September 11, 2009 Larry Gelbart, the Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated writer-producer, died today in Beverly Hills at the age of 81. Best known for co-writing the long-running comedy series M*A*S*H (Emmy winner for writing in 1974), Gelbart also cowrote the Broadway musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (music by Stephen Sondheim) and the hit movie Tootsie (Oscar nominee for Original Screenplay in 1983). Gelbart's long TV career included working with Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Red Buttons, Mel Brooks, and Neil Simon. And although he's inextricably linked with M*A*S*H, he only wrote for the series for the first four of its 11 years. Below are one of my favorite scenes from Tootsie and an archival interview in which Gelbart discusses leaving M*A*S*H (as well as his returning for the series AfterM*A*S*H, about which he says he "got sucked in by the cleverness of the title"). Read the L.A. Times obit --David Trailer Park: "The Blind Side" (version 2) September 11, 2009 About a month ago we posted a trailer for The Blind Side , starring Sandra Bullock and Quinton Aaron and opening in theaters on November 20 (and as some of you helpfully pointed out, based on the book by Michael Lewis ). This is the second trailer, more briskly paced and some... read more

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