{"id":9404,"date":"2009-09-12T12:54:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T03:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=9404"},"modified":"2009-09-12T12:54:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T03:24:55","slug":"vale-larry-gelbart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2009\/09\/12\/vale-larry-gelbart\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Larry Gelbart"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9405\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9405\" title=\"LarryGelbart photo web\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/LarryGelbart-photo-web.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Gelbart - 1928-2009\" width=\"432\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/LarryGelbart-photo-web.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/LarryGelbart-photo-web-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Gelbart - 1928-2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A giant of the Hollywood writing fraternity is no longer with us. Larry Gelbart, the man who wrote, among other things, <em>Tootsie<\/em>, <em>A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum<\/em>,<em> Blame It On Rio<\/em>, and<em> Bedazzled<\/em>, has passed away at his home in Beverley Hills yesterday. For the<em> Tootsie<\/em> screenplay with Barry Levinson, Elaine May and Murray Schisgal, Gelbart was nominated for an Academy Award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But perhaps his most enduring legacy was his production of the TV series <em>M*A*S*H<\/em>, which he both wrote and produced for much of the series&#8217; first four seasons. For this alone, we tip our hat to his comic genuis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Larry Gelbart was 81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A giant of the Hollywood writing fraternity is no longer with us. Larry Gelbart, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":"","sow-carousel-default":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}