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M*A*S*H Writer Larry Gelbart Dead at 81

Larry Gelbart, the writer who made M*A*S*H a TV hit, died Friday in his Beverly Hills home, after a battle with cancer. He was 81.

In 1971, TV execs approached Gelbart about adapting Robert Altman's M*A*S*H for the small screen... read full article

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  • Liked M*A*S*H (even though it's hard to type out), but it should have ended three years earlier than it did.  But that isn't a complaint!  And I'd forgotten he'd had a hand...
  • Mass Distraction-- not destruction.   So goes a great writer. Not many in Hollywood with his spark, even back in the days off MASH.
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M*A*S*H Writer Larry Gelbart Dead at 81

Larry Gelbart, the writer who made M*A*S*H a TV hit, died Friday in his Beverly Hills home, after a battle with cancer. He was 81.

In 1971, TV execs approached Gelbart about adapting Robert Altman's M*A*S*H for the small screen... read more

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