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He was born in Manchester , and after National Service in the Royal Navy he worked in Advertising before becoming a regular writer for '' Coronation Street '' in the 1960s. Rosenthal won three BAFTA awards for '' Bar Mitzvah Boy '' (about a Jewish boy's Bar Mitzvah ), ''The Evacuees'' (based in his own war-time Evacuation ) and ''Spend, Spend, Spend'' (about a Football Pools winner, Viv Nicholson ). He created London's Burning as a one-off drama in 1986 , and this later developed into a long-running TV Drama of the Soap Opera - like type disdained by him. He also wrote the film about cabbies in training, '' The Knowledge ''. In 1983 Rosenthal co-wrote the film Yentl with Barbra Streisand . He married comedy actress Maureen Lipman in 1974 , and they have two children, Amy and Adam. Rosenthal was awarded the CBE in 1994 . He died on 29 May 2004, following a long battle against Multiple Myeloma , a form of Cancer . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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