Alvin Sargent, an Oscar-winning screenwriter whose career ran a frankly ludicrous gamut of genres, with some remarkable degrees of success, has died. Sargent—who won Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay for 1977's Julia, and for 1980's much celebrated portrait of all-consuming, family-destroying grief, Ordinary People—was 92.
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