Morrie Gelman, Longtime Journalist and Variety Alum, Dies at 90
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variety.comTim Gray Senior Vice PresidentLongtime media journalist and Variety alumnus Morrie Gelman died of heart failure on Aug. 26 in Palm Desert, Calif.
He was 90.Gelman was a Variety staffer from 1977 to 1992.Born Morris Gelman in Brooklyn, he began his career in the New York City mailroom of radio’s Mutual Broadcasting System in 1948.
After two years in the Army, he worked for five years at the New York Post as an assistant to syndicated columnist Earl Wilson and later as a police reporter.
He also was a journalist at the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper.He continued his career as features editor at the monthly Theater Magazine and was a member of the Drama Critics Circle.
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