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Marshall Brickman, Co-Writer of ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘Jersey Boys,’ Dead at 85
Marshall Brickman, who co-wrote hit films with Woody Allen including 'Annie Hall,' and the musical 'Jersey Boys,' has died at age 85.
He was in the folk group the Tarriers, playing alongside Eric Weissberg and they scored the hit single, “Dueling Banjos.” Several of their songs from their 1963 album New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass were featured on the soundtrack of the 1972 film, Deliverance. The pair continued their fruitful collaboration on the screenplay for 1979’s Manhattan, the black-and-white comedy that featured the controversial relationship between a middle-aged man and a high school girl, played by Mariel Hemingway. Brickman’s award-winning writing over a five-decade career wasn’t intentional; when he was in his twenties he told The Times in 1986: “I made a lot of decisions based on how late I could sleep in the morning.”
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