Bruce Jay Friedman

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Bruce Jay Friedman (born April 26, 1930, New York, New York) is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.

Early life

Friedman was born in New York City on April 26, 1930, and he and his sister, Dollie, were raised in The Bronx. Irving's father, Irving, worked at a company that sold women's clothing; Mollie (Liebowitz), his mother, was a regular theatergoer. His family was Jewish. Friedman attended DeWitt Clinton High School before pursuing journalism at the University of Missouri, having unsuccessfully applied to Columbia University. He joined the United States Air Force and wrote for the military journal Air Training. One of his commanding officers gave him The Catcher in the Rye, of Time and the River, and From Here to Eternity. It prompted him to become a writer after reading the books in about a weekend.

Personal life and death

In 1954, Friedman married Ginger Howard. Josh, Kipp, and Drew were three boys together, but they did not have three boys: Josh, Kipp, and Drew. They divorced in 1978 after their marriage "crumbled like an old graham cracker." Patricia O'Donohue married him five years ago. They were married until his death, and they had one child, Molly.

Friedman and fellow writer Norman Mailer argued at the latter's house party once over a disagreement. It became physical as Mailer headbutted him and Mailer's wife begged him on to "kill the bastard." Although Friedman won the fist fight, he had to shoot a tetanus bullet after Mailer bit him in the chest.

Friedman died on June 3, 2020, at his Brooklyn home. He was 90 and had neuropathy in the years leading up to his death. According to Patricia, he was hospitalized one month before his death due to an infection that was not related to COVID-19.

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Career

Friedman returned to The Bronx after finishing his two-year service in the military. He wrote "Wonderful Golden Rule Days" his first short story, which he sold to The New Yorker. He was later employed by the Magazine Management Company in 1954, and spent time in several of the era's most popular men's magazines. Friedman was appointed as an executive editor in charge of the magazines Men (not the new magazine of the same name), Male, and Man's World.

Friedman first published Stern, the first of his eight books, in 1962, to critics who praised the author's use of humor. Isabelle Hoover, a writer for The Press Democrat, said of the author, "His style is fast-moving, his story is amusing and at the same time serious." The pages of his short book are generously sprinkled with sex and the ubiquitous four letter words of modern writers. But Stern, in effect, is a book about spiritual warfare." "It is said that when Bruce Jay Friedman graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City, he was named the second funniest fellow in his class." Friedman is now expected to lead the class, so it's a safe bet that it's going to be the best bet.

Stern was followed shortly by A Mother's Kisses (1964) and his first performance, Scuba Duba (1967). In 1968, these three works earned him the title "The Hottest Writer of the Year" by The New York Times. Since the 1970s, he turned his attention to writing screenplays. In 1980, he wrote the script for Stir Crazy, the third-highest-grossing film in the United States this year. Splash's first draft was completed four years ago. Friedman shared with Brian Grazer, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo Mandel that it received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Friedman wrote several books in the 1980s and 1990s that attracted "respectful critiques." However, critics were of the view that their latest endeavors lacked the same degree of creativity as his predecessors. He appeared in Woody Allen's film Another Woman in 1988. During the next decade, he would appear in two other films directed by Allen: Husbands and Wives (1992) and Celebrity (1998). In September 2008, Friedman's collection of short stories, Three Balconies, appeared on Biblioasis, who also published his 2011 book Lucky Bruce. 3.1 Plays (Scuba Duba, Steambath, Sardines, and The Trial) was a series of four plays published in January 2012.

Friedman was an early writer of modern American black humor, as well as Joseph Heller (also a close friend of his), Stanley Elkin, and Thomas Pynchon. The style was given this name in part because of the 1965 anthology that was treated with the same name as the one he edited. "I don't really know if I invented [it]," the writer admitted when asked about the term's origins by Newsday in 1995. He was described by the New York Times as a "deadpan prose stylist" who was a "savage social satirist." His writings reflected the social and political revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s. He used his experiences from that time to explore race and gender relations. He also used other experiences from his personal life to inform his writings. For example, the packed Brooklyn apartment setting in A Mother's Kisses was like the three-room apartment where he was raised in the Bronx, although the main character's denial by Columbia University mirrored his own failed attempt to enroll in the university. The story of his short story "A Change of Plan," in which a man falls in love with another woman at the hotel pool during his honeymoon in Florida, reflected how Friedman's own honeymoon unfolded in the aforementioned state.

Friedman was known for his ability to write books, short stories, and plays, as well as being a screenwriter and magazine editor. He often discussed how conflicted he felt in writing screenplays for profit and pleasure, as opposed to his "higher calling" of authoring novels. "Take the money, scribble a bit, and enjoy the room service," he described his former colleague's attitude toward him.

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