Buck Henry RIP

I saw one obituary which brought up his split with Mel Brooks. Buck Henry was robbed of credit for creating the show Get Smart. The opening credits said it was "Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry". Odd way of putting it.
 
Buck Henry was the greater talent. Most of Mel Brooks' movies are a series of often bad gags. Buck Henry wrote the scripts to The Graduate and Catch 22. I didn't know he also wrote the scripts to Day of the Dolphin, To Die For and episodes of Quark.

Buck Henry died January 8th at age 89.

And there was this from counterpunch.org:

As the great Buck Henry, who died at about the same time Trump delivered his speech, once said: “We need a president who is fluent in at least one language.” (Sadly, even the high IQ presidents–Obama, JFK, Clinton–have proved just as ruthless, and a good deal more cunning, than the imbecilic Bush and Trump.) Still it’s bracing to contemplate the possibility that Trump’s drugged-out, incoherent babble this morning may have knocked off Buck Henry, the screenwriter of Catch-22, in an absurd kind of collateral damage that both Henry and Joseph Heller might have appreciated.