Allan Burns, the six-time Emmy winner who partnered to create one of the best sitcoms of all time,The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and one of the worst,My Mother the Car, has died.
He was 85. Burns died Saturday, his frequent writer partner, James L. Brooks, reported on Twitter. "His singular writing career brought him every conceivable recognition." he wrote. "But, you had to know him to appreciate his full rarity.
He was simply the finest man I have every known. A beauty of a human." No other details of his death were immediately available.
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