MARSHALL BRICKMAN (Book).
Films (author or co-author): Sleeper,
Annie Hall (A. Award), Manhattan, Manhattan Murder Mystery; (as writer/director): Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan Project, Sister
Mary Explains it All. Television: "The
Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" (head writer); "The Dick Cavett Show," the ABC
late-night program (head writer/co-producer). Mr. Brickman entered
show business as a musician, first as a member of the folk group The Tarriers
and then, along with John and Michelle Phillips, as one of The New Journeymen,
which re-emerged a year later (Brickman having moved on to saner pursuits) as
The Mamas and the Papas. Brickman’s recording (with Eric Weissberg) of the
soundtrack of Deliverance, recorded in 1963, achieved gold status twice and
remains a healthy seller around the world 40 years later. Mr. Brickman has
published in The New York
Times, The New Yorker, Playboy and other
periodicals. Jersey Boys is his first venture into musical theatre.