Marshall Brickman (born August 25, 1939) is an American screenwriter and director, best known for his collaborations with

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. He is the co-recipient of the 1977 Academy Award for

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for ''

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''. He is also known for playing the banjo with Eric Weissberg in the 1960s, and for a series of comical parodies published in ''

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''.

Life and career

Brickman was born in

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, to

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parents Pauline (née Wolin) and Abram Brickman. His family was

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. After attending the

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, he became a member of Folk act

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in 1962, recruited by former classmate Eric Weissberg. Following the disbanding of The Tarriers in 1965, Brickman joined The New Journeymen with John Phillips and

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, who later had success with

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. He left The New Journeymen to pursue a career as a writer, initially writing for television in the 1960s, including ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. It was during this time that he met Allen, with whom he would collaborate on three completed film screenplays during the 1970s: '' Sleeper'' (1973), ''

'' (1977, which won the

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), and ''

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'' (1979). Brickman directed several of his own scripts in the 1980s, including ''

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'', '' Lovesick'', and ''

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'', as well as '' Sister Mary Explains It All'', a TV adaptation of the play by

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. His script with Allen for ''

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'' (1993) had been put aside some years earlier when the project was later revived. With partner

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, he wrote the book for the

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'', about 1960s rock 'n' roll group The Four Seasons. The two collaborated again in 2009 to write the book for the

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''. Brickman's "Who's Who in the Cast," a parody of a ''

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'' cast list, was published in the July 26, 1976, issue of ''The New Yorker'', and drew so much attention that it was republished in the special theatre issue of May 31, 1993. Other pieces for ''The New Yorker'' include "The Recipes of Chairman Mao" (August 27, 1973) and "The New York Review of Gossip" (May 19, 1975).

Film writer

* '' Sleeper'' (1973) * ''Ann in Blue'' (1974) (TV movie) * '' The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence'' (1975) * ''

'' (1977) * ''

'' (1979) * ''

'' (1980) * '' Lovesick'' (1983) * ''

'' (1986) * ''

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'' (1991) * ''

'' (1993) * ''

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'' (1994) * ''

'' (2014)

Theatre

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