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Funny Man: Mel Brooks MP3-CD by McGilligan, Complete W/All Discs, Free Shipping
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781982607883
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- CD Mp3
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Funny Man : Mel Brooks
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada, The Limited
- Genre
- Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Rich & Famous, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / Genres / Comedy
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins Canada, The Limited
ISBN-10
1982607882
ISBN-13
9781982607883
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038568239
Product Key Features
Book Title
Funny Man : Mel Brooks
Topic
Rich & Famous, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / Genres / Comedy
Publication Year
2019
Language
English
Genre
Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Format
CD Mp3
Dimensions
Item Length
7.5 In.
Item Width
5.3 In.
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
McGilligan has found a good critical balance as he extols his subject's comedic and artistic virtues while being forthright about Brooks's occasional stubborn attitude toward creative and financial control...Well researched, engaging, and of interest to all of Brooks fans., Superb...Will be essential reading for anyone interested in Brooks or, more broadly, how Hollywood functioned during the second half of the twentieth century.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
792.7/028092 B
Edition Description
Unabridged edition
Synopsis
A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches 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 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.
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