Career
He was a film critic for Newsweek magazine from 1967 to 1975, and also wrote for television shows including Sesame Street but is probably best known for writing The King of Comedy (1983) directed by Martin Scorsese. He was the author of many other screenplays, mostly unproduced, and also the books The Open Manitoba, The Year the Mets Lost Last Place and The Marx Brothers at the Movies (1968). Zimmerman died of colon cancer months after similarly voting against incumbent President Bush.
