Gelbart Gets A Goodbye From Hawkeye
Comedy writer Larry Gelbart passed away from cancer this past friday at his home in Beverly Hills. Gelbart wrote for film, television and theater, but was perhaps best known for his work on the sitcom MASH. For today’s LA Times, Alan Alda has written a remembrance of his former co-worker and friend.
Larry Gelbart could take an event where sentimentality was allowed, even expected, and turn it on its ear. My friend Allan Katz, who also wrote for “MASH,” was with him once at a friend’s funeral.
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