It's Good to Be the King

by James Robert Parish

  Web Sites

  Associated Press

  www.ap.org

  BBC News

  news.bbc.co.uk

  Box Office Mojo

  www.boxofficemojo.com

  Catskills Institute

  www.brown.edu/Research/Catskills_Institute

  Contactmusic.com

  www.contactmusic.com

  E! Online

  www.eonline.com

  Find a Grave

  www.findagrave.com

  Get Smart Webpage

  www.wouldyoubelieve.com/episodes.html

  Highbeam Research

  www.highbeam.com

  People Online

  www.people.aol.com

  The Sid Caesar Collection

  www.sidcaesar.com

  The Smoking Gun

  www.thesmokinggun.com

  StarPlus

  www.starplus.com

  The Hollywood Reporter

  www.hollywoodreporter.com

  Internet Broadway Database

  www.ibdb.com

  Internet Movie Database

  www.pro.imdb.com

  Larry King Live

  www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/larry.king.live

  Mel Brooks at Topix.net

  www.topix.net/who/mel-brooks

  Movieweb

  www.movieweb.com

  National Public Radio (NPR)

  www.npr.org

  Playbill

  www.playbill.com

  Public Broadcasting System (PBS)

  www.pbs.org

  Tiscali Film & TV

  www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies

  Variety.com

  www.variety.com

  Yahoo News

  news.yahoo.com

  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

  as playwright

  and press critics

  pride about being Jewish

  romantic relationships

  as screenwriter

  and self-analysis

  and Sid Caesar

  as songwriter

  talks about himself and his career

  talks about his work

  television work and appearances

  theater work

  voice parts in animated films & TV

  work habits

  as writer

  Brooks, Nicholas (“Nicky”) (son)

  Brooks, Samantha (granddaughter)

  Brooks, Stefanie (daughter)

  Brooksfilms Ltd.

  Brothers Grimm, The (film)

  Brown, Phil

  Brown, Richard

  Bruce, Lenny

  Burnett, Carol

  Burns, David

  Burns, Georger />
  Buyse, Emile

  Bye Bye Birdie (play)

  Caan, James

  Caesar, Dave

  Caesar, Florence

  Caesar, Sid

  Caesar’s Hour (TV series)

  Caesar’s Hours (book)

  Cagney, James

  California Fruit Growers Association

  Callas, Charles

  Call Me Madam (play)

  Candidate, The (film)

  Candy, John

  Cantor, Eddie

  Cantor, Pincus

  Cape Playhouse

  Capra, Frank

  Carell, Steve

  Carey, Ron

  Carlisle, Kitty

  Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival (recording)

  Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks: 2000 and Thirteen (record album)

  Carnival (play)

  Carradine, John

  Carrey, Jim

  Carroll, June

  Carroll, Madeleine

  Carroll, Pat

  Carson, Johnny

  Carter, Jack

  Carter, Ray

  Cassavetes, John

  Catch-22 (book)

  Cavett, Dick

  Champion, Gower

  Champion, Marge

  Chandler, Evan

  Channing, Carol

  Chaplin, Charles

  Chappelle, Dave

  Charnin, Martin

  Chopin, Frederic

  Chorus Line, A (play)

  Clark, Ron

  Clarke, Arthur C.

  Clary, Robert

  Coca, Imogene

  Coffey, Joseph

  Cohen, Eugene

  Cole, Nat “King,”

  Colgate Comedy Hour, The (TV series)

  Colman, Ronald

  “Commuters, The” (comedy skit)

  Como, Perry

  Connery, Sean

  Conrad, Joseph

  Copland, Aaron

  Coppola, Francis Ford

  Corman, Avery

  Cornfield, Stuart

  Cosby, Bill

  Costner, Kevin

  Cotton Club, The (film)

  Crazy for You (play)

  Critic, The (film)

  Cronenberg, David

  Crossbow Productions

  Cruise, Tom

  Cry of Players, A (play)

  Crystal, Billy

  Crystal, Jennifer

  Curb Your Enthusiasm (TV series)

  Curtain Going Up (play)

  Dailey, Dan

  Dali, Salvator

  Dalton, Timothy

  D’Amboise, Jacques

  Danny Kaye Show, The (TV series)

  Darion, Joe

  Dark, Alvin

  David, Larry

  Davis, Bette

  Davis, Geena

  Davis, Gwen

  Death of a Salesman (play)

  Delgo (film)

  DeLuca, Rudy

  DeLuise, Dom

  Denoff, Sam

  Denver, John

  Destry Rides Again (film)

  Devil, The (play)

  De Vore, Christopher

  De Wolfe, Billy

  Diamond, Selma

  Diamonds to Sit On (book)

  Dick, Andy

  Dick Van Dyke Show, The (TV series)

  Dietrich, Marlene

  Dinah Shore Show, The (TV series)

  Dinehart, Alan

  Directing Workshop for Women of the American Film Institute

  Doctor and the Devils, The (film)

  Donat, Robert

  Donnelly, Ruth

  Don’t Bother to Knock (film)

  Dorsey, Tommy

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  Downey, Robert, Sr.

  Dracula (film)

  Dracula: Dead and Loving It (film)

  Dreyfuss, Richard

  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (book)

  Dr. No (film)

  Duet for One (play)

  Duke, Patty

  Durning, Charles

  Easy Come, Easy Go (projected film)

  “Easy to Love” (song)

  Eddie Cantor Show, The (radio series)

  Ed Sullivan Show, The (TV series)

  Charing Cross Road (film)

  Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Foundation

  Electric Company, The (TV series)

  Elephant Man, The (film)

  Elwes, Cary

  Enter Laughing (play)

  Ericson, John

  Etheridge, Jeanette

  Evening with Mel Brooks, An (TV show)

  Every Little Crook and Nanny (film)

  Eye Guess (TV series)

  Fabray, Nanette

  Face Is Familiar, The (TV series)

  Faces (film)

  Fanny (play)

  Farmer, Frances

  Farrelly, Bobby

  Farrelly, Peter

  Fatal Attraction (film)

  Fatso (film)

  Faynzilberg, Ilya. See Petrov, Evgeny

  Feldman, Marty

  Feldon, Barbara

  Fellini, Federico

  Ferrell, Will

  Ferrer, Jose

  Fiddler on the Roof (play)

  Fields, Joe

  Fields, W. C.

  Finch, Peter

  Finney, Albert

  Fiorello (play)

  First Deadly Sin, The (film)

  Flebus (film)

  Fly, The (film)

  Fodorski (play)

  Fonda, Henry

  Fonda, Peter

  Fontaine, Lynn

  Ford, Whitey

  Forever Amber (film)

  Year Old Virgin, The (film)

  Fox, Frederick

  Frances (film)

  Francis, Freddie

  Frankenstein (book)

  Frankenstein (film)

  Free to Be ... You & Me (TV show)

  French Connection, The (film)

  Freud, Sigmund

  From Here to Eternity (film)

  From Russia with Love (film)

  Fugard, Athol

  Fuller, Frances

  Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A (play)

  Garr, Terry

  Garry Moore Show, The (TV series)

  Garson, Greer

  Gautier, Dick

  Gaxton, William

  Gaynor, Mitzi

  Geffen, David

  Gelbart, Larry

  General Electric Theater (TV series)

  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (play)

  Get Smart (projected film)

  Get Smart (TV series)

  Ghostley, Alice

  Gibson, William

  Gillette, Anita

  Gilliam, Terry

  Glazier, Sidney

  Godfather, The (book)

  Godfather, The (film)

  Gogol, Nikolai

  Going in Style (film)

  Golda (play)

  Goldbergs, The (TV series)

  Goldblum, Jeff

  Goldenberg, Emanuel

  Goldfinger (film)

  Goldwyn, Samuel

  Good as Gold (book)

  Goodman, Hal

  Good Morning, Vietnam (film)

  Gordon, Bruce

  Gorilla at Large (film)

  Gottwald, Harold

  Gourmet Club, The

  Graduate, The (film)

  Graham, Ronny

  Grand Illusion (film)

  Grant, Cary

  Greene, Shecky

  Greggio, Ezio

  Gregory, Dick

  Gregory, Mollie

  Griffin, Merv

  Grimes, Tammy

  Gruskoff, Michael

  Guarnieri, Johnny

  Guber, Peter

  Guys and Dolls (play)

  Gypsy (play)

  Haberman, Steve

  Hackman, Gene

  Hamilton, George

  Hamilton Dancers (dance troupe)

  Hamlet (film)

  Hanff, Helene

  Hanks, Tom

  Happy Anniversary (fi
lm)

  Hart, Moss

  Harwood, Roland

  Have You Heard, Bronsky Is Dying (projected play)

  Hayes, Bill

  Hayes, Isaac

  Heath, Bob

  Heavens Above! (film)

  Hefner, Hugh

  Heim, Alan

  Heller, Joseph

  Hello, Dolly! (play)

  Helton, Robyn

  Hennesy, Dale

  Henry, Buck

  Henson, Jim

  Herlie, Eileen

  Herman, Jerry

  Hertzberg, Michael

  Heston, Charlton

  Hewitt, Christopher

  “Hickenloopers, The” (comedy skit)

  High Anxiety (film)

  “High Anxiety” (song)

  Hiken, Nat

  Hilliard, Harriet

  Hindenburg, The (film)

  Hines, Gregory

  Hirschfield, Alan J.

  Hirschfield, Gerald

  History of the World: Part I, The (film)

  Hitchcock, Alfred

  Hitler, Adolf

  “Hitler Rap, The” (song)

  Hoffman, Dustin

  Hollywood Variety (TV series)

  Hope, Bob

  “Hope for the Best, Expect the Worst” (song)

  Hopkins, Anthony

  Howard, John C.

  How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (play)

  Huffman, Cady

  Hurt, John

  Husmann, Ron

  Iceman Cometh, The (play)

  “I Get a Kick Out of You” (song)

  Ilf, Ilya

  I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (film)

  “I Love You As I Loved You When You Were Sweet Sixteen” (song)

  I Love You to Death (film)

  “I’m Fascinating” (song)

  Imogene Coca Show, The (TV series)

  “I’m Tired” (song)

  Inside Danny Baker (projected TV series)

  Inside the Actors Studio (TV series)

  Inside U.S.A. (play)

  In the Catskills (book)

  Iskowitz, Edward Israel. See Cantor, Eddie

  Italiano, Anna Maria Louisa. See Bancroft, Anne

  Italiano, Michael

  Italiano, Mildred DiNapoli

  “It’s Good to Be the King” (song)

  It’s in the Bag (film)

  I Vitelloni (film)

  “I Wanna Be a Producer” (song)

  Jack Carter Show, The (TV series)

  Jackie Gleason Show, The (TV series)

  Jackson, Anne

  Jaffe, Leo

  Jakers—The Adventures ofPiggley Winks (TV series)

  Jan and Dean (singing team)

  Janus (play)

  Jeopardy! (TV series)

  Jesus of Nazareth (TV miniseries)

  “Jews in Space” (song)

  Joan of Arc

  Joe (film)

  Johnson, Alan

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Jolson, Al

  Jones, David

  Jones, James Earl

  Jordan, Will

  Kabelsky, Benjamin

  Kahn, Madeline

  Kallen, Lucille

  Kaminski, David

  Kaminsky, Basha (grandmother)

  Kaminsky, Bernard (brother)

  Kaminsky, Irving (brother)