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100 1 McGilligan, Patrick.
245 10 Funny man|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource]|bMel
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520 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Bancroft that superseded Brooks' troubled first marriage.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.Funny Man
includes a 16-page black-and-white photo insert.
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650 7 Performing Arts.|2OverDrive
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