In the 1980s, " Rock Steady With Flo and Eddie " was recorded in Kingston, Jamaica, and the partners began writing comedy and script with Chris Bearde, Larry Gelbart and Carl Gotleib.

Larry Simon Gelbart ( February 25, 1928 – September 11, 2009 ) was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter and author.

Comedy writer and playwright Larry Gelbart has said that comedian Lenny Bruce ’ s attempt to be released from military service in World War II by dressing in a WAVES uniform was the original inspiration for the character of Klinger on the sitcom.

Gardner also brought aboard several keen writing talents, including theatric humorist Abe Burrows ( the show's co-creator and head writer for its first five years ), future M * A * S * H writer Larry Gelbart and Dick Martin, who later was the co-host of television's groundbreaking Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

* TCM Remembers 2009: Edmund Purdom, Natasha Richardson, Jody McCrea, Ricardo Montalbán, Al Martino, director Robert Mulligan, director Howard Zieff, Pamela Blake, Farrah Fawcett, producer Larry Gelbart, producer Charles H. Schneer, Edward Woodward, Jennifer Jones, Sam Bottoms, Patrick Swayze, Olga San Juan, Paul Burke, screenwriter Horton Foote, Sydney Chaplin, Susanna Foster, director Ken Annakin, cinematographer Jack Cardiff, Beverly Roberts, Kathleen Byron, Dorothy Coonan, producer Daniel Melnick, Jane Bryan, Ron Silver, David Carradine, Richard Todd, Gale Storm, Pat Hingle, Eartha Kitt, Lou Jacobi, Bea Arthur, composer Maurice Jarre, Dom DeLuise, Henry Gibson, screenwriter Budd Schulberg, Claude Berri, writer Dominick Dunne, Betsy Blair, James Whitmore, Joseph Wiseman, Patrick McGoohan, director John Hughes and Karl Malden.

Maxwell is a regular participant on the alt. tv. mash newsgroup where, along with series writer Larry Gelbart ( up until Gelbart's death in 2009 ), answers fan questions about the behind-the-scenes workings of M * A * S * H.

In 1980, he published his memoir, Honest, Abe: Is There Really No Business Like Show Business ?, in which he recalled the meat of his career, including his mentoring of several comedy writers including future M * A * S * H writer Larry Gelbart ( who was once a Duffy's Tavern writer ), Nat Hiken, Dick Martin and Woody Allen, the latter a distant cousin of Burrows '.

Gelbart was a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post, and also was a regular participant on the alt. tv. mash Usenet newsgroup as " Elsig ".

Gelbart was diagnosed with cancer in June and died at his Beverly Hills home on September 11, 2009.

for a proposed national UK tour, but the play was shelved when Howerd was offered a chance by Larry Gelbart to reprise his role as Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum at the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End.

During the 1940s Gelbart also wrote for Jack Paar and Bob Hope.

In 1972, Gelbart was one of the main forces behind the creation of the television series M * A * S * H, writing the pilot ( for which he received a " Developed for Television by ..." credit ) and then producing, often writing and occasionally directing the series for its first four seasons ( 1972 – 1976 ).

M * A * S * H earned Gelbart a Peabody Award and an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series and went on to considerable commercial and critical success.

His wife of 53 years, Pat Gelbart, said that after being married for so long, " we finished each other's sentences.

A common misconception is that Larry Gelbart wrote for Your Show of Shows ; he in fact wrote for its successor program, Caesar's Hour, which ran from 1954 to 1957.

One of the season's standout episodes was the Emmy-nominated " Fall Out ", where Potter and Pfeffier considered leaving General General, but reconsidered when they linked the leukemia seen in a patient with exposure to atomic testing ; writer-director Larry Gelbart received a Peabody Award for this episode.

It was written by Larry Gelbart and directed by Gene Reynolds, who received the Directors Guild of America Award for it.

* Larry Gelbart, creator of M * A * S * H ( CBS, 1972 – 83 ), initially wanted the show to air entirely without a laugh track (" Just like the actual Korean War ", he remarked dryly ).

Gelbart was born in Chicago to Jewish immigrants Harry Gelbart (" a barber since his half of a childhood in Latvia ") and Frieda Sturner, who migrated to America from Dombrowa, Poland.

It was founded in 1983 by Dan Gelbart ( who retired from Kodak in 2007 ) and Ken Spencer ( who retired from Creo in the 1990s ), and was initially a manufacturer of optical tape recorder ( OTR ) devices and a vendor of laser imaging engines to the printing industry.

The book, based on the farces of Plautus, was written by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.

Marcia Gelbart Walkenstein was his sister.

A film version starring Zero Mostel was released in 1966 with Gelbart and Shevelove's libretto largely rewritten.

Gelbart was extremely critical of the movie.

Tootsie was adapted by Larry Gelbart, Barry Levinson ( uncredited ), Elaine May ( uncredited ) and Murray Schisgal from the story by Gelbart.

M * A * S * H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH ( which was itself based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, by Richard Hooker ).

Michel Gelbart ( 1899 – 1966 ) was a prolific American composer of Yiddish songs.

It was written by Larry Gelbart and directed by Stephen Surjik.

The production, with book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, and songs by Stephen Sondheim, was not working.

The following is a list of M * A * S * H episodes ( 42 Total ) written and / or directed by Gelbart.

The film was directed by Glenn Jordan and written by Larry Gelbart.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.

Gelbart also co-wrote the golden-era film spoof Movie Movie ( 1978 ) starring George C. Scott in dual roles, the racy comedy Blame It on Rio ( 1984 ) starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore, and the 2000 remake of Bedazzled with Elizabeth Hurley and Brendan Fraser.

Gelbart co-wrote the long-running Broadway musical farce A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Burt Shevelove and Stephen Sondheim in 1962.

He also wrote the Iran-contra satire Mastergate, as well as Sly Fox and a musical adaptation of the Preston Sturges movie Hail the Conquering Hero ; during that show's troubled development Gelbart uttered the now-classic line, " If Hitler is alive, I hope he's out of town with a musical.

With this evidence in mind, the writer began to plan how he might more effectively educate the married students in his functional classes.

The writer began this special class by explaining his background thinking for creating such a section in the first place.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

" A writer has died ," he began, " who, together with Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy, forms part of the glory of Russian literature.

Following an endorsement by horror writer Stephen King, the film slowly began to receive distribution.

He began his professional career at the age of six, and has worked on over 400 television episodes, 18 motion pictures, various commercials, and scores of voice over work, as well as working as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and writer.

In 2011 Avatar Press began publishing a comic book Caligula written by horror comic writer David Lapham.

After his brother's death, Poe began more earnest attempts to start his career as a writer.

Capra later became a gag writer for Hal Roach's Our Gang series and then writer for slapstick comedy director, Mack Sennett, where he began writing scripts for comedian Harry Langdon.

In 1928, Orwell began his career as a professional writer in Paris at a journal owned by the French Communist, Henri Barbusse.

Shearer's first marriage to writer John Ward was unhappy and she and Hawks began dating throughout 1927 until Shearer asked Ward for a divorce in 1928.

The 12th-century French writer Chrétien de Troyes, who added Lancelot and the Holy Grail to the story, began the genre of Arthurian romance that became a significant strand of medieval literature.

After Python, he began a new career as a travel writer and travel documentarian.

Though Englehart and Starlin soon left as the creative talent for the title, its success grew once writer Doug Moench and artist Paul Gulacy, began collaborating in issues # 22.

It is a combination of horror and erotica, and is something of a transition for Wood, who began as a horror writer and later began writing pornography.

Heinlein began his career as a writer of stories for Astounding Science Fiction, a highly respected science fiction magazine, which was edited by John Campbell.

New Wave writers began to look outside the traditional scope of science fiction for influence, and many looked to the example of beat writer William S. Burroughs, to the point where New Wave authors Philip José Farmer and Barrington J. Bayley wrote pastiches of his work (" The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod " and " The Four Colour Problem ", respectively ) and J. G. Ballard published an admiring essay in an issue of New Worlds.

Isaac Asimov, a science fiction writer who began his career with John W, Campbell in Astounding magazine in the 1940s, said of the New Wave: " I hope that when the New Wave has deposited its froth and receded, the vast and solid shore of science fiction will appear once more.

Ditko began professionally illustrating comic books in early 1953, drawing writer Bruce Hamilton's science-fiction story " Stretching Things " for the Key Publications imprint Stanmor Publications, which sold the story to Ajax / Farrell, where it finally found publication in Fantastic Fears # 5 ( cover-dated Feb. 1954 ).

Eventually the two began collaborating on story ideas, and there have been several Groo stories in which Evanier is credited as the sole writer.

At this early age, he began writing his own show tunes, which eventually helped him in his future adventures as a satirical composer and writer in his years of lecturing at Harvard University, and later at other universities.

In 1969, writer Roy Thomas and illustrator Neal Adams rejuvenated the comic book and gave regular roles to two recently introduced characters: Havok / Alex Summers ( who had been introduced by Roy Thomas before Adams began work on the comic ) and Lorna Dane, later called Polaris ( created by Arnold Drake and Jim Steranko ).