Justin Timberlake‘s new album Everything I Thought It Was is out in the world now and he celebrated its release with a star-studded party in Los Angeles.
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Dan Wilcox, an Emmy-winning writer, producer and longtime union man who penned dozens of M*A*S*H episodes including co-writing its record-setting series finale and had many other TV credits including Sesame Street and Fernwood/America 2-Nite, has died. He was 82.
His niece, Julie Merson Rothenberg, told the WGA that he died February 14 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. No cause was given.
A six-decade WGA member and longtime former board member who was active in the 2007-08 strike, Wilcox was a fierce champion of unions and equal rights. In 2017, he received the Morgan Cox Award in recognition of his exemplary service to the Guild. WGAW President Howard A. Rodman said at the time: “Dan Wilcox has been, in a sustained and deeply moving way, a voice for the voiceless. His work, at once passionate and effective, has been on behalf of those who might otherwise lack the power to make themselves fully heard.”
Born on April 17, 1941, in New York City, Wilcox got his career start writing for the CBS children’s show Captain Kangaroo when his brother-in-law Marc Merson, then a casting director at CBS, got him an interview. “I almost blew the interview,” Wilcox said. “I had to write spec scripts, and they weren’t very good. My uncle Jed was living at my mom’s, and we watched Captain Kangaroo together. He read my scripts, and told me I had comedy all wrong. ‘Never let the character be aware there is a problem. He thinks it’s going perfectly, and then it all falls apart!’ Jed gave me a crash course in how to write comedy that I’ve relied on my entire career.”
Wilcox went on to landing work on such 1970s series as What’s Happening!!, Norman Lear’s Good Times and PBS’ Sesame Street. He won an Emmy for the latter in
Justin Timberlake‘s new album Everything I Thought It Was is out in the world now and he celebrated its release with a star-studded party in Los Angeles.
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