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McGilligan, Patrick.
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Brooks, Mel, 1926-
Comedians -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
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McGilligan, Patrick.
Brooks, Mel, 1926-
Comedians -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
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Funny man :
Mel
Brooks
/ Patrick McGilligan.
by
McGilligan, Patrick.
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019.
Call #:
792.7028092 B873m
Subjects
Brooks
,
Mel
, 1926-
Comedians -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780062560995 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Mel
Brooks
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
624 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-561), filmography and index.
Summary:
"Oscar, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy award-winner
Mel
Brooks
was behind (and sometimes in front the camera too) of some of the most influential comedy hits of our time, including The 2,000 Year Old Man, Get Smart, The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein. But before this actor, writer, director, comedian, and composer entertained the world, his first audience was his family. The fourth and last child of Max and Kitty Kaminsky,
Mel
Brooks
was born on his family's kitchen table in Brooklyn, New York, in 1926, and was not quite three-years-old when his father died of tuberculosis. Growing up in a household too poor to own a radio,
Mel
was short and homely, a mischievous child whose birth role was to make the family laugh. Beyond boyhood, after transforming himself into
Mel
Brooks
, the laughs that came easily inside the Kaminsky family proved more elusive. His lifelong crusade to transform himself into a brand name of popular humor is at the center of master biographer Patrick McGilligan's Funny Man. In this exhaustively researched and wonderfully novelistic look at
Brooks
' personal and professional life, McGilligan lays bare the strengths and drawbacks that shaped
Brooks
' psychology, his willpower, his persona, and his comedy. McGilligan insightfully navigates the epic ride that has been the famous funnyman's life story, from
Brooks
's childhood in Williamsburg tenements and breakthrough in early television--working alongside Sid Caesar and Carl Reiner--to Hollywood and Broadway peaks (and valleys). His book offers a meditation on the Jewish immigrant culture that influenced
Brooks
, snapshots of the golden age of comedy, behind the scenes revelations about the celebrated shows and films, and a telling look at the four-decade romantic partnership with actress Anne Bancroft that superseded
Brooks
' troubled first marriage. Engrossing, nuanced and ultimately poignant, Funny Man delivers a great man's unforgettable life story and an anatomy of the American dream of success."--From publisher.
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