Bye Bye Brecher

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Bye Bye Brecher

#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:06 pm

Screen writer for Bye Bye Birdie, (who gets posted so I could use the header)
Irving Brecher
Hollywood screenwriter who created scripts for two Marx Brothers films and minted many quickfire jokes .


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Irving Brecher
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Irving Brecher, who died on Monday [Nov 17] aged 94, was a Hollywood scriptwriter who wrote screenplays for two Marx Brothers films and the Judy Garland musical Meet Me in St Louis (1944), as well as one-liners for the American comedian Milton Berle.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... echer.html
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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Re: Bye Bye Brecher

#2 Post by kayrharris » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:21 pm

That was some good stuff. I hope we have more like him in the future.
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