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Joseph Brooks, born Joseph Kaplan [1] (March 11, 1938 – May 22, 2011), [2] was an American songwriter, filmmaker, and sex offender. He became the subject of an investigation after being accused of a series of casting-couch rapes.
May 23, 2011 · There came a point when Joseph Brooks, an Oscar-winning songwriter, apparently decided that life was no longer worth living; his body was discovered on Sunday, with ample evidence of a...
May 24, 2011 · Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of "You Light Up My Life" who was awaiting trial for rape, was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment,...
May 24, 2011 · An obituary on Tuesday about the songwriter and filmmaker Joseph Brooks misstated Mr. Brooks’s role in the production of the movie “Eddie and the Cruisers.”
May 23, 2011 · Songwriter Joseph Brooks, who won the best song Oscar in 1978 for You Light Up My Life, has been found dead in New York after taking his own life. The 73-year-old had been awaiting trial on...
"You Light Up My Life" is a ballad written by Joseph Brooks, and originally recorded by Kasey Cisyk for the soundtrack album to the 1977 film of the same title. [1] The song was lip synced in the film by its lead actress, Didi Conn .
May 22, 2011 · Songwriter-director-screenwriter Joseph Brooks, who penned the ubiquitous 1977 hit “You Light Up My Life,” was found dead in New York on Sunday, May 22, an apparent suicide. He was 73....
