It's Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks (46 page)

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———.
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My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir.
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A
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Sikov, Ed. Mr.
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Simon, Neil.
The Play Goes On: A Memoir.
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Rewrites: A Memoir.
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Sinyard, Neil.
The Films of Mel Brooks.
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Smith, Ronald L.
Johnny Carson: An Unauthorized Biography.
New York: St. Martin’s, 1987.

Smurthwaite, Nick, and Paul Gelder.
Mel Brooks and the Spoof Movie.
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Television Characters: 1,485 Profiles from 1947 to 2004.
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Television Specials: 3,201 Entertainment Spectaculars, 1939–1993.
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Publications

Among those utilized were:
American Film, Backstage West, Billboard, Biography, Boxoffice, Cable Guide
, the
Chicago Sun-Times,
the
Chicago Tribune, Cinefex, Classic Film Collector, Classic Image, Cult Movies
,
Current Biography, Daily Variety,
the
Detroit Free Press
,
Drama-Logue, Ebony, Empire, Entertainment Today, Entertainment Weekly, Family Weekly, Film Comment, Film Threat, Film-fax, Films in Review, Films of the Golden Age, Flightime, Forward, Globe, Hollywood Citizen News,
the
Hollywood Reporter, InStyle, Interview, Jewish Exponent, Jewish Journal, Jet, L.A. Weekly
, the
London Daily Telegraph,
the
London Evening Standard,
the
London Guardian,
the
London Sunday Telegraph,
the
London Times, Los Angeles,
the
Los Angeles Daily News,
the
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
, the
Los Angeles Times
,
Monthly Film Bulletin
,
Movie Collectors World
,
Movieline
, the
National Enquirer
, the
New Jersey Record
,
New York
, the
New York Daily News
, the
New York Observer
, the
New York Post
, the
New York Times
,
The New Yorker
,
Newsweek, Parade
,
People
,
Playboy
,
Premiere
,
Rocky Mountain News
,
Rolling Stone
, the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch
, the San
Francisco Chronicle
,
Saturday Review
,
Sight & Sound
, Star, Time, Tzme Oi/£
London
, Total Film,
Travel Leisure
, TV
Guide
, C/S
Weekly
, l/SA
Today
,
Valley Vantage
,
Vanity Fair
, the
Village Voice
,
Virginian Pilot
,
Vogue
, the
Wall Street Journal
, and the
Washington Post

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)
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)
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Yahoo News
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Other Sources

Press books of Mel Brooks’s feature films, liner notes of Mel Brooks’s Broadway shows and comedy albums, and commentary tracks of DVDs of Mel Brooks’s feature films and television work.

Index

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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
(film)

Abraham, Jim

Abramowitz, Joseph

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
(film)

Act One
(book)

Adams, Don

Adams, Joey

Adams, Lee

Admiral Broadway Revue
(TV series)

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’s Younger Brother
,
The
(film)

Airplane!
(film)

Albertson, Jack

Alexander, Jason

Algonquin Round Table

All American
(play)

Allegro
(play)

Allen, Fred

Allen, Steve

Allen, Woody

All-Star Revue
(TV series)

Ally McBeal
(TV series)

Almaviva, Rita

American Comedy Awards

Annie Get Your Gun
(play)

Annie Hall
(film)

Annie & the Hoods
(TV show)

Annie
,
the Women in the Life of a Man
(TV show)

Anthony, Lysette

Anything Goes
(play)

Appell, Don

archy and mehitabel
(TV show)

Arthur, Bea

Astaire, Fred

August
,
The
(film)

Avera, Tom

Azzara, Candy

Back Alley Opera
(play)

Backwards to Forward
(projected film)

Bad News Bears
,
The
(film)

Ball, Lucille

Balsam, Martin

Bancroft, Anne (second wife)

Bankhead, Tallulah

Bart, Roger

Barthel, Joan

Basehart, Richard

Basserman, Albert

Baum, Edward

Baum, Florence (first wife)

Baum, Leonore Douglas

Beach, Gary

Bean, Orson

Beatty, Warren

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Begelman, David

“Begin the Beguine” (song)

Behan, Brendan

Belkin, Gary

Benjamin, Richard

Benny, Jack

Berghof, Herbert

Bergman, Andrew

Bergren, Eric

Berkeley, Busby

Berkowitz, Sol

Berle, Milton

Berlin, Irving

Berlinger, Milton

Berry, Jan

Besterman, Doug

Best Laid Plans
,
The
(play)

“Betrayed” (song)

Beverly Hills Cop II
(film)

Bicycle Thief, The
(film)

Big Business
(film)

Billy Williams Quartet (music group)

Birds
,
The
(film)

Black Bart
(projected film)

Blade Runner
(film)

Blair, Janet

Blankfield, Mark

Blazing Saddles
(film)

“Blazing Saddles” (song)

Bloomgarden, Kermit

“Blow, Gabriel, Blow” (song)

Bogdanovich, Peter

Bolger, Ray

Bologna, Joseph

Bonnie and Clyde
(film)

Bonny, John

Booth, Shirley

Borge, Victor

Borscht Belt Circle

Bosley, Tom

Boulanger, Nadia

Boyle, Peter

Bracken, Eddie

Bradley, Bill

Brahms, Johannes

Brandeis University

Brando, Marlon

Bride of Frankenstein, The
(film)

Brighton Beach Memoirs
(film)

Brighton Beach Memoirs
(play)

British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Broderick, Matthew

Brookman, Joe (uncle)

Brooks, Albert

Brooks, Edward (son)

Brooks, Maximilian Michael (“Max”) (son)

Brooks, Mel

Academy Awards won and nominations

as actor

adolescence

army career

birth of

as businessman

career choices

Catskills, working in the

childhood

comic routines

death of parents

death of wife

decision on going into show business

as director

as a drummer

education

fears, frustrations, and personal concerns

film work

first public comic roles

health concerns

homes and residences

jobs other than in show business

marriages and divorces

other awards and nominations

as performer

personal characteristics

personal observations