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Funny Man: Mel Brooks
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A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his ragstoriches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed author of Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane and Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light.Oscar, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy awardwinner 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 familys kitchen table in Brooklyn, New York, in 1926, and was not quite threeyearsold 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 McGilligans 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 funnymans life story, from Brookss childhood in Williamsburg tenements and breakthrough in early televisionworking alongside Sid Caesar and Carl Reinerto 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celebrated shows and films, and a telling look at the fourdecade romantic partnership with actress Anne Bancroft that superseded Brooks troubled first marriage. Engrossing, nuanced and ultimately poignant, Funny Man delivers a great mans unforgettable life story and an anatomy of the American dream of success.Funny Man includes a 16page blackandwhite photo insert.
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