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	Gelbart, Larry
		Gelbart has written for radio and television, as well as the script for the stage play A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
		Gelbart was leery about returning to American television, but became interested when he learned that CBS was willing to allow the series to realistically depict the horrors of war.
		Gelbart provided numerous innovations to an idea which had already made for a best-selling novel and box office hit.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/G/htmlG/gelbartlarr/gelbartlarr.htm (807 words)

	Larry Gelbart
		Larry Gelbart (1928 -) is a prolific comedy writer with over 50 years of credits.
		He began as a writer for Danny Thomas[?] radio show during 1940s, and wrote for Martin and Lewis and Bob Hope.
		Broadway credits include libretto for musical City of Angels and Iran-contra satire Mastergate; in the early 1960s, uttered the now-classic line, "If Hitler is alive, I hope he's out of town with a musical." TV credits include cable TV-movie Barbarians at the Gate.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/la/Larry_Gelbart.html (183 words)

	Lycos Movies - Biography - Larry Gelbart
		Gelbart soon had an agent and his career was off and running.
		Gelbart frequently clashed with director Sydney Pollock and was unhappy to share final credit with Murray Schisgal (although others were also said to have tweaked the script).
		Gelbart then turned his sights on tabloid media moguls in the fl comedy "Weapons of Mass Distraction" (HBO, 1997), He also served as executive producer of "Fast Track", a 1997 Showtime series set in the world of professional stock car racing.
	entertainment.lycos.com /movies/celeb_bio.php?id=17435 (973 words)

	The Blog \| Larry Gelbart: Waking Up is Hard to do \| The Huffington Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gelbart but others who have long planted their rice in Hollywood's paddies, is how he's sounding a lot more like Charles Bukowski than the humorist responsible for MASH.
		Larry Gelbart is as sensitiveand good a Jew as he is a writer.
		Gelbart doesn't like to admit that a government is only as good as the people in it and that it's leaders are led by them.
	huffingtonpost.com /larry-gelbart/waking-up-is-hard-to-do_b_26261.html (2980 words)

	Online NewsHour: Larry Gelbart -- April 2001
		LARRY GELBART: Well, I think each network has a different idea of the audience it wants to attract.
		LARRY GELBART: Self-censorship goes back to radio, in my experience, which was very strict.
		LARRY GELBART: Well, I think the cliché goes "organization is the death of fun." It can also be the death of drama.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/media/conglomeration/gelbart.html (1546 words)

	TIME.com: Nonstop Laughs -- Jun. 30, 2003 -- Page 1
		Gelbart started early in show biz when his father, barber to the stars, persuaded client Danny Thomas to give Larry, then 16, a shot writing comedy.
		Gelbart, who has called writing "the perfect medium for shy extroverts," was soon a scribe for Jack Paar, Red Buttons and Bob Hope.
		Although Gelbart and his wife Pat, whom he married in 1956, usually spend half the week at their Palm Desert retreat, they rarely miss Monday-night dinner with their children, grandchildren and great-grandchild.
	www.time.com /time/generations/article/0,9171,1101030630-460223,00.html (1088 words)

	Neil Simon & Larry Gelbart - Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO, WGAE, WGA East, Movie Scripts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		GELBART: What was amazing to me--I remember reading a draft of Laughter on the 23rd FloorNeil gave me an advanced peek at it and I said, line for line, page for page, it was the funniest thing I had ever read.
		GELBART: There might be some universal, identifiable traits in the people you're doing in a sketch, but you're not expecting an audience, really, to identify with those characters or to find them endearing.
		GELBART: I was just going to say, if you're working for--incidentally, unquestionably, one of the comic masterpieces in our language is The Importance of Being Earnest and there's not one joke in it.
	www.wgaeast.org /features/simon-gelbart.html (4906 words)

	Larry Gelbart Information
		Larry Gelbart wrote the long-running Broadway farce A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Burt Shevelove and Stephen Sondheim in 1962, and collaborated with Shevelove on a series of UK movie comedies during the rest of 1960s.
		In 1972, Gelbart returned to the United States, and was one of the main forces behind the creation of the TV series MAS*H.
		Gelbart is sometimes known as 'Francis Burns' in the credits.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Larry_Gelbart (288 words)

	Larry Gelbart - Japan
		Larry Simon Gelbart (born February 25, 1928 in Chicago) is a prolific American comedy writer with over 60 years of credits.
		Larry Gelbart wrote the long-running Broadway farce A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Burt Shevelove and Stephen Sondheim in 1962, and collaborated with Shevelove on the British movie comedy, The Wrong Box.
		In 1972, Gelbart returned to the United States, and was one of the main forces behind the creation of the TV series MAS*H.
	larry-gelbart.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Larry_Gelbart (635 words)

	UCR: “An Evening with Larry Gelbart” at UCR Palm Desert
		Gelbart will participate in an Inside the Actor’s Studio-style conversation with Laurie Winer, the former chief drama critic for the Los Angeles Times and theater critic for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
		Gelbart began his writing career while still in high school in the 1940s writing for the “Maxwell Coffee House Time with Danny Thomas” radio series.
		Gelbart is perhaps best know as one of the creators of the highly acclaimed 1970s television series “MASH.
	www.newsroom.ucr.edu /cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1467 (562 words)

	Larry Gelbart Summary
		Familiar as it may sound, though, Larry Gelbart has given us a show that violates all the rules of sitcom, a game as rigid as pinochle.
		Movie Movie is a dum-dum title for a pair of skillful parodies that were written by Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller under the provisional title Double Feature.
		Gelbart has resuscitated the great Elizabethan, modernized him, given him a new set of clothes and married him off to the old traditions of American vaudeville.
	www.bookrags.com /Larry_Gelbart (268 words)

	Larry Gelbart at Hollywood.com
		That same year, Gelbart and his family decamped for London where he spent nine years, during which he worked on several film scripts, the best of which was "The Wrong Box" (1966), co-written with Burt Shevelove.
		Gelbart frequently clashed with director Sydney Pollock and was unhappy to share final credit with Murray Schisgal (although others were also said to have tweaked the script).
		Gelbart then turned his sights on tabloid media moguls in the fl comedy "Weapons of Mass Distraction" (HBO, 1997), He also served as executive producer of "Fast Track", a 1997 Showtime series set in the world of professional stock car racing.
	www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Larry_Gelbart/190266 (2382 words)

	Conservative Cat: Larry Gelbart and the Celebrity Syndrome
		One of the nice things about Laurence Simon's Huffington Post site is that each author has a page devoted entirely to him or her.
		Looking over Bruce's shoulder as he paged through it, I suddenly realized the true nature of the problem at the Post: when you have a big-name celebrity writing for you, there is no safe way to tell him to soak his head for a few hours and cool off.
		Gelbart wants you to spend a day with no radio, no TV, no books or magazines, no movies, and no music.
	www.conservativecat.com /mt/archives/2005/05/larry_gelbart_a.html (566 words)

	Larry Gelbart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gelbart's other Broadway credits include the musical City of Angels, which received an Edgar Award in 1990, and the Iran-contra satire Mastergate, as well as "Sly Fox".
		In the early 1960s, he uttered the now-classic line, "If Hitler is alive, I hope he's out of town with a musical." TV credits include cable TV-movie Barbarians at the Gate.
		Since May 2005, Gelbart has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Larry_Gelbart (325 words)

	Amazon.com: Laughing Matters:: On Writing MASH, Tootsie, Oh, God!, and a Few Other Funny Things: Books: Larry Gelbart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)*
		Gelbart comes off as the witty, caustic, intelligent fellow everyone says he is. The Hollywood system, however, does not fare so well, and neither do meddling TV executives and certain actors and other associates, both nameless and named.
		The editor seems to have padded out a lot of miscellaneous articles by Gelbart with jottings of his own, pages of lavish praise of Gelbart that you would think would embarrass Gelbart to be published in a book under his own name.
		In this quick-read, Larry Gelbart, the man who not only wrote most of TV's MASH, but also penned the funniest Broadway Musical of all time, can't seem to settle on a topic long enough to analyze it.
	www.amazon.com /Laughing-Matters-Writing-Tootsie-Things/dp/067942945X (1580 words)

	Biography for Larry Gelbart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The elder Gelbart was a barber in Beverly Hills who made it a point to tell his clients, such as Danny Thomas, what a funny 15-year-old son he had.
		Shortly after being signed by the William Morris Agency, he joined the writing staff of "Duffy's Tavern," working for the man generally considered to be the hardest taskmaster in radio, Ed Gardner.
		Gelbart came back to Los Angeles to write the television series MASH (1970) He was responsible for 97 segments of that show, one of television's most literate and entertaining efforts.
	us.imdb.com /Bio?Gelbart,+Larry (863 words)

	Like Jazz - Sy Coleman/Alan and Marilyn Bergman/Larry Gelbart
		The creators (Cy Coleman, the Bergmans and Larry Gelbart) and the stars (Patti Austin, Jack Sheldon, Lillias White, and Jennifer Chada) have among them enough credits and honors to fill a musical awards show.
		Like Jazz is an assemblage of 18 musical numbers loosely held together by an MC/narrator, casually slouching Harry Groener, who reminisces with occasional wit about the jazz era, and some major and minor figures of the time.
		After this single performance, Larry Gelbart was invited to join the creative team, with Gordon Davidson, in his penultimate season as Artistic Director of the Mark Taper Forum to direct.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/LikeJazz.htm (706 words)

	Larry Gelbart - Biography - Moviefone
		On television Gelbart got his start on the Red Buttons Show then went on to work with some of America's greatest comedy writers, including Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon and Woody Allen on Your Show of Shows.
		In 1962, Gelbart penned his first screenplay The Notorious Landlady, but his best-known screenplay from that era is A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, on which he collaborated with Burt Shevelove.
		Gelbart is probably best known as the producer and frequent writer for the long-running and highly distinguished comedy-drama MAS*H. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/larry-gelbart/91236/biography (202 words)

	Larry Gelbart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gelbart honed his comic skills on radio and TV, contributing material for Danny Thomas on the Fanny Brice radio program at age 16.
		One of the legendary stable of comedy writers (Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen) for Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows." Gelbart wrote the first of many plays in 1950 and his first screenplay, THE NOTORIOUS LANDLADY, in 1962.
		Gelbart also scripted the Bryan Forbes gem THE WRONG BOX (1966) and was one of many collaborators on Sydney Pollack's TOOTSIE (1982), as well as producing and writing the long-running TV series, "MAS*H."
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho6/gelbart_l.htm (196 words)

	Great Performances . Dialogue . The College of Comedy III with Alan King . Larry Gelbart \| PBS
		And when one person has made such an impact on the face of entertainment as we know it, raising the level of discourse to a fine art, it's very tempting to peer into his mind and see what makes him tick.
		In February 2001, GREAT PERFORMANCES Online had a freewheeling conversation with Larry Gelbart, who spoke to us from his home in Los Angeles, about THE COLLEGE OF COMEDY III, his work, humor, show business, and life in general.
		Larry Gelbart: Well, it can be specifically made to do that.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/dialogue/dialogue_lgelbart1.html (745 words)

	At FDU: America's Master of Comedy, Larry Gelbart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gelbart began his entertainment career in radio at the age of 16, writing first for Danny Thomas, and then Eddie Cantor, Jack Paar and Bob Hope, among others.
		His current writing projects include a musical for Andrew Lloyd Webber based on "A Star is Born", a TV-series pilot based on the movie "Network", and a screen version of Bob Fosse's "Chicago".
		While the University intends the information distributed here to be accurate and timely, it is the responsibility of the user to verify the information.
	www.fdu.edu /newspubs/pressrel/gelbart.html (268 words)

	Larry Gelbart Interview Excerpt Page
		Gelbart began as a writer for Danny Thomas' radio show when he was just 16, and went on to write for Ed Gardner on Duffy’s Tavern and the Joan Davis Show.
		Gelbart co-authored the long-running A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Burt Shevelove in 1962, and many UK series in the '60s.
		Gelbart wrote his memoirs, Laughing Matters, in 1997.
	www.emerson.edu /comedy/histories/Larry-Gelbart-Interview-Excerpt-Page.cfm (237 words)

	NPR : Comedy writer LARRY GELBART
		Fresh Air from WHYY, August 19, 1996 · Comedy writer LARRY GELBART.
		In the 1950s he was part of a team of television writers that included Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and others who wrote for Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour." GELBART went on to develop and write for the television version of "MASH.
		Also, he wrote the screenplays for "Oh, God!" and "Tootsie," and the stage play for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (which has recently been revived on Broadway).
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1109220 (189 words)

	YouTube - Larry Gelbart's "Mastergate" Pt.3
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		Written by Larry Gelbart, Produced by David Jablin, Directed by Michael Engler.
		Larry Glotter and the not so good samaritan
	www.youtube.com /?v=liSeVh23CnE (103 words)

	Larry Gelbart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MASH, Tootsie &; God: A Tribute to Larry* Gelbart (1998) (TV)....
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	www.imdb.com /name/nm0312205 (497 words)

	NPR : Comedy Writer Larry Gelbart
		Fresh Air from WHYY, August 31, 2000 · Comedy writer Larry Gelbart.
		In the 1950s he was part of a team of television writers that included Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and others who wrote for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour.
		Gelbart went on to develop and write for the television version of MAS*H.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1111409 (162 words)

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