Bruce Jay Friedman, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, playwright and author known for his scripts for “Splash” and “Stir Crazy,” has died at age 90.
NEW YORK — Bruce Jay Friedman, an Oscar-nominated screenplay writer and popular playwright and author known for the wry comedy and subtle pathos of such novels as “Stern” and “About Harry Towns” and for his scripts for “Splash” and “Stir Crazy,” has died at age 90.
His professional life was mirrored by an A-list social life. He talked books with Philip Roth and William Styron, endured the drunken taunts of Norman Mailer, lunched with Mel Brooks and attended a birthday party for “Stir Crazy” star Richard Pryor. “I read the books in close to one weekend and it was my only epiphany: a Jewish guy can have an epiphany,” he told The Believer in 2008. “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be wonderful to try something like that?’”He debuted in 1962 with “Stern,” which he completed while commuting between the Manhattan office where he worked as a magazine editor and his home on Long Island. The book’s portrait of a troubled family mirrored his own.
The story was called “A Change of Plan,” which became the acclaimed 1972 comedy “The Heartbreak Kid,” starring Charles Grodin, directed by Elaine May and written by Neil Simon. .
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