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Larry Gelbart Dies

Adieu Larry Gelbart...and Laugh Tracks

Anna Jane Grossman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment

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Anna Jane Grossman

Gelbart, who wrote Tootsie and many of the early episodes of M*A*S*H, spent years rejecting the industry's efforts to manipulate TV-watchers into emitting less-than-sincere laughs.

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My Friend Larry Gelbart

Alan Alda | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

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Alan Alda

His genius for writing changed my life because I got to speak his lines -- lines that were so good they'll be with us for a long time; but his immense talent for being good company -- that's a light that's gone out.

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Larry Gelbart Dead: `M-A-S-H' Writer Dies At 81

AP | CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

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LOS ANGELES — Larry Gelbart, the award-winning writer whose sly, sardonic wit helped create such hits as Broadway's "A Funny Thing Happened on t...

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