BECKERMAN, 53, WON AWARD FOR WRITING `RAID ON ENTEBBE'.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Barry Beckerman, who won a Golden Globe award for writing the 1977 television movie ``Raid on Entebbe,'' has died of cancer. He was 53. Beckerman, who died Wednesday, was born in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and moved to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. in 1969 to work for Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Pictures. There he supervised the acquisition and development of films like ``The Exorcist'' and ``Dirty Harry.'' He also produced ``Red Dawn,'' in 1984, which starred Patrick Swayze. Beckerman wrote the 1973 film ``Shamus,'' starring Burt Reynolds. And in the 1980s, he worked with Polygram Pictures, helping with the ``Batman'' movies. Beckerman is survived by his father, Sidney; two sisters, Janis Fishkin and Maris Beckerman; two nephews; and a niece. A memorial service was scheduled for Monday at 3 p.m. at Hillside Memorial in Los Angeles. The family has requested that any memorial donations be made to the Israel Cancer Research Fund. |
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