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My mother was extremely witty and caustic, and my father knew more jokes than anyone I've ever known.
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When vaudeville died, television was the box they put it in.
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MASH] was going to have to be a whole lot more than funny. Funny was easy. How not to trivialize human suffering by trying to be comic about it, that was the challenge.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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Born:
February 25, 1928
Died:
September 11, 2009
(aged 81)
Known for:
M*A*S*H (1972 – 1983)
Tootsie (1982)
Oh, God! (1977)
The Wrong Box (1966)
Movie Movie (1978)
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