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It's Good to Be the King

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by James Robert Parish

Kaminsky, Kate Brookman (“Kitty”) (mother)

  Kaminsky, Leonard (brother)

  Kaminsky, Maximilian (father)

  Kaminsky, Melvin. See Brooks, Mel

  Kaminsky, Shlaimie (Samuel) (grandfather)

  Karloff, Boris

  Karras, Alex

  Kasdan, Lawrence

  Katayev, Yevgeny. See Ilf, Ilya

  Kaye, Danny

  Kazan, Lainie

  Keaton, Buster

  Keep Your Seats Please (film)

  Keller, Sheldon

  Kelly (play)

  Kelly, Gene

  Kelly, Glen

  Kent, Allegra

  Kidman, Nicole

  King, Larry

  “King of Broadway, The” (song)

  Kinoy, Ernest

  Kitt, Eartha

  Klein, Larry

  Kleinsinger, George

  Kline, Kevin

  Kopell, Bernie

  Korman, Harvey

  Kroll, Alex

  Kubrick, Stanley

  Kutcher, Benjamin

  Ladd, Alan, Jr.

  Ladies’ Man, The (film)

  Lady Vanishes, The (film)

  Laine, Frankie

  Lancaster, Bill

  Lane, Nathan

  Lange, Hope

  Lange, Jessica

  Langella, Frank

  Last Movie, The (film)

  Late Show with David Letterman (TV series)

  Laughter on the 23rd Floor (play)

  Laughter on the 23rd Floor (TV show)

  Lavar, Bob

  Lawrence, Carol

  Lawrence, Peter

  Lawrence of Arabia (film)

  Lawrence Welk Show, The (TV series)

  Leachman, Cloris

  Lean, David

  Lee, Ngoot

  Lengyel, Melchior

  Lester, Dick

  Les Visiteurs (film)

  Levine, Joseph E.

  Levinson, Barry

  Lewis, Jerry

  Lewis, Richard

  Liebman, Max

  Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, The (film documentary)

  Life Stinks (film)

  Linn-Baker, Mark

  Lipstick (film)

  Lipton, James

  Little, Cleavon

  Little House on the Prairie (TV series)

  Little Prince, The (film)

  Little Rascals, The (film)

  Livingston, Ben

  Lloyd, Christopher

  Lloyd, Norman

  Logan, Joshua

  Lollobrigida, Gina

  Lombard, Carole

  Look Who’s Talking Too (film)

  Love at First Bite (film)

  Lubitsch, Ernst

  Lucas, George

  Lugosi, Bela

  Lumet, Sidney

  Lunt, Alfred

  Lupiano, Vincent A.

  Lynch, David

  Lynde, Paul

  MacLaine, Shirley

  MacNicol, Peter

  Mad (magazine)

  Mad About You (TV series)

  Make Mine Manhattan (play)

  Marne (play)

  Mandel, George

  Man from U.N.C.L.E., The (TV series)

  Manhattan (film)

  Mann, Hummie

  Man of La Mancha (play)

  Marceau, Marcel

  March, Hal

  “Marian” (song)

  Marno, Anne. See Bancroft, Anne

  Marquis, Don

  Marriage Is a Dirty Rotten Fraud (screenplay)

  “Married I Can Always Get” (song)

  Mars, Kenneth

  Martin, Dean

  Martinet, Katharine

  Marx Brothers, The

  M*A*S*H (film)

  Mason, Jackie

  Mason, James

  Mata and Hari (dance team)

  Matheson, Tim

  May, Elaine

  May, Martin A.

  Mayer, Edwin

  Mazursky, Paul

  McCarty, Mary

  McLaren, Norman

  Me and My Gal (play)

  Medavoy, Mike

  Meehan, Thomas

  Meet John Doe (film)

  Meir, Golda

  Melnick, Daniel

  Meredith, Lee

  Merman, Ethel

  Merrick, John

  Merrill, Robert

  Midler, Bette

  Mike Douglas Show, The (TV series)

  Milk and Honey (play)

  Miller, George

  Miner, Worthington

  Minnelli, Liza

  Miracle Worker, The (film)

  Miracle Worker, The (play)

  Mobley, Roger

  Moby Dick (book)

  Monroe, Marilyn

  Montague, Percy

  Monty Python and the Holy Grail (film)

  Moody, Ron

  Moonstruck (film)

  Moore, Mary Tyler

  Moranis, Rick

  Morons from Outer Space (film)

  Morris, Howard (“Howie”)

  Morris, John

  Morrison, Toni

  Mostel, Kate

  Mostel, Zero

  Mother Courage and Her Children (play)

  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (film)

  Mrs. Miniver (film)

  “Mrs. Robinson” (song)

  Muni, Paul

  Muppet Movie, The (film)

  Murphy, Brianne

  Murphy, Eddie

  Murray, Jan

  Mussolini, Benito

  My Favorite Year (film)

  My Son, the Hero (TV series)

  Nabokov, Vladimir

  Nadja (film)

  Naked Gun (film series)

  National Association of Theater Owners

  National Lampoon (magazine)

  Native Son (play)

  NBC Saturday Night Revue (TV series)

  Neal, Patricia

  Nelson, Mark

  New Faces (film) (1954)

  New Faces of 1937 (film)

  New Faces of 1952 (play)

  Newhart, Bob

  Newman, Paul

  Newman, Rabbi

  Nichols, Mike

  Nielsen, Leslie

  Nightfall (film)

  Nikolic, Djordje

  Niven, David

  No Laughing Matter (book)

  “Nonentities in the News” (comedy skit)

  North by Northwest (film)

  Noto, Lore

  Nowhere to Go But Up (play)

  Nude Bomb, The (film)

  Nutt House, The (TV series)

  Nye, Louis

  Oblong Club, The. See The Gourmet Club

  Ockrent, Mike

  Odd Couple, The (play)

  Of Father and Sons (play)

  “Of Fathers and Sons” (comedy skit)

  Oh, Godl (book)

  Oliver! (film)

  Oliver! (play)

  Olsen, Alfa-Betty

  One of the Boys at the Globe Is a Girl (projected film)

  Open End (TV series)

  Oppenheimer & Co.

  Orbach, Ron

  O’Reilly, Rosemary

  Oscar, Brad

  Osterwald, Bibi

  O’Toole, Peter

  Ouspenskaya, Maria

  Padula, Edward

  Paper Moon (film)

  Paris, Jerry

  Parkington, Arthur

  Parsons, Louella

  Password (TV series)

  Paxton, Bill

  Peerce, Jan

  Penn, Arthur

  Perelmuth, Jacob Pincus. See Peerce, Jan

  Persky, Bill

  Peters, Bernadette

  Petrov, Evgeny

  Phil Silvers Show, The (TV series)

  “Physical Fitness” (song)

  Piazza, Marguerite

  Picasso, Pablo

  Pickens, Slim

  Pillot, Leo

  Pintoff, Ernest

  Places Please (TV series)

  Planet Moron, The (film). See Spaceballs (film)

 
; Platt, Edward

  Playhouse (TV series)

  Pnin (book)

  Pollack, Sydney

  Polly Bergen Show, The (TV series)

  Pons, Lily

  Porter, Cole

  Poston, Tom

  Prager, Stanley

  Prince of Egypt, The (film)

  Prisoner of Second Avenue, The (film)

  “Prisoners of Love” (song)

  Producers, The (film) (1968)

  Producers, The (film) (2005)

  Producers, The (play)

  Producers, The (TV documentary) (2001)

  Producers: The Book, Lyrics, and Story Behind the Biggest Hit on Broadway!, The (book)

  “Professor, The” (comedy skit)

  “Professor and the Jungle Boy, The” (comedy skit)

  Professor Fodorski (book)

  Pryce, Jonathan

  Pryor, Richard

  Psycho (film)

  Pullman, Bill

  Pumpkin Eater, The (film)

  Pushkin, Aleksandr

  Putney Swope (film)

  “Puttin’ on the Ritz” (song)

  Puzo, Mario

  Radcliffe Radio Players

  Raid, The (film)

  Randolph, Ann

  Random Harvest (film)

  Rashômon (film)

  Raye, Martha

  Reagan, Ronald

  Rees, Roger

  Reik, Theodor

  Reiner, Carl

  Reiner, Estelle

  Reiner, Rob

  Reiser, Paul

  Reitman, Ivan

  Reno, Jean

  Return of Maxwell Smart, The (film)

  Return to Horror High (film)

  Reynolds, Burt

  Rich, Buddy (Bernard)

  Rich, Micky

  Richmond, Bill

  Ritz Brothers, The

  Rivera, Chita

  Rivers, Joan

  Road Warrior, The (film)

  Robbins, Gale

  Robertson, Cliff

  Robin Hood: Men in Tights (film)

  “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” (song)

  Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (film)

  Robinson, Edward G.

  Robots (film)

  Rogers, Ginger

  Roman Scandals (film)

  Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The (TV movie)

  Romeo and Juliet (play)

  Roney, John

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Roseanne

  Rosenblum, Ralph

  Rowe, Misty

  Ruben, Aaron

  Rubinek, Saul

  Saake, James

  Salkin, Leo

  Sandler, Adam

  Sanford, Charles

  Sanger, Jonathan

  Sargent, Herbert

  Saturday Night Live (TV series)

  Scared to Death (projected film)

  Schopenhauer, Arthur

  Schwartz, Alan

  Scott, Ridley

  Screw Loose (film)

  Seinfield, Jerry

  Sellers, Peter

  Separate Rooms (play)

  Seven Women (film)

  Sex, logner (5* videovald (film)

  Shaffer, Peter

  Shakespeare, William

  Shane (film)

  Shapiro, J. David

  Shaw, Artie

  Shawn, Dick

  Shear, Barry

  Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

  Sherman, Thomas

  “Sherwood Forest Rap” (song)

  She Stoops to Conquer (play)

  Shinbone Alley (play)

  Shirley, Bill

  Shoes, The (film)

  Shore, Dinah

  Shore, Sammy

  Short, Martin

  Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce, The (record album)

  Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special (TV show)

  Sid Caesar Invites You (TV series)

  Silence of the Hams, The (film)

  Silent Movie (film)

  Silent Running (film)

  Sillman, Leonard

  Silverman, Fred

  Simon, Danny

  Simon, Neil

  Simon, Paul

  Simpsons, The (TV series)

  Sims, Alastair

  Sinatra, Frank

  Singin’ in the Rain (film)

  “Singin’ in the Rain” (song)

  60 Minutes (TV series)

  Sledge Hammer (TV series)

  Slender Thread, The (film)

  S.N.A.F.U. (projected film)

  Solarbabies (film)

  Something Happened (book)

  South Pacific (play)

  Spaceballs (film)

  Spaceballs (projected animated TV series)

  Spanglish (film)

  Spellbound (film)

  Spencer, Alan

  Springtime for Hitler (projected book)

  Springtime for Hitler (projected screenplay)

  “Springtime for Hitler” (song)

  Squeeze Box (play)

  St. Raymond, Anne. See Bancroft, Anne

  Stalag (play)

  Stalin, Joseph

  Stanley, Kim

  Starbuck, James

  Star Wars (film)

  Star Wars (film series)

  Stein, Joe

  Steinberg, Norman

  Stephanson, Pamela

  Stern, Leonard

  Steve Allen Show, The (TV series)

  Stewart, Michael

  Stewart, Patrick

  Stiles, Norman

  Stoppard, Tom

  Storch, Arthur

  Straw Hat Revue, The (play)

  Streetcar Named Desire, A (film)

  Streisand, Barbra

  Strickfaden, Ken

  Stroman, Susan

  Strouse, Charles

  Studio One (TV series)

  Sturges, Preston

  Subject Was Roses, The (film)

  Sullivan, Ed

  Sullivan’s Travels (film)

  Sumac, Yma

  Susann, Jacqueline

  Susskind, David

  “Sweet Georgia Brown” (song)

  Swerdlow, Ezra

  Take Me Along (play)

  Tambor, Jeffrey

  Tar Baby (book)

  Tars and Spars (film)

  Taylor, Renee

  Taylor, Robert Lewis

  Tebet, David

  Ten Commandments, The (film)

  Tenderloin (play)

  from Your Show of Shows (film)

  Teresa (film)

  Terry-Thomas

  Texaco Star Theater (TV series)

  Tex X (projected film)

  That Was the Week That Was (TV series)

  Thelma & Louise (film)

  “There’s Nothing Like a Show on Broadway” (song)

  There’s Something About Mary (film)

  Steps, The (film)

  This Is Your Life (TV series)

  Thomas, Dylan

  Thomas, Mario

  Three Men and a Baby (film)

  Three Stooges, The

  Thurman, Uma

  “Til Him” (song)

  Tinker, Grant

  Titans, The (film)

  To Be or Not to Be (film) (1942)

  To Be or Not to Be (film) (1983)

  Tolkin, Mel

  Tolstoy, Leo

  Tomlin, Lily

  Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The (TV series)

  Tony Orlando d* Dawn (TV series)

  Top Banana (play)

  Torrence, Dean

  Troublemaker, The (film)

  tummler, definition of

  Turning Point, The (film)

  Twelve Chairs, The (film)

  Twiggy

  Two for the Seesaw (film)

  Two for the Seesaw (play)

  Two’s Company (play)

  2001: A Space Odyssey (film)

  2000 and One Years With Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks (recording)

  2000 Year Old Man, The (animated TV series)

  2000 Year Old Ma
n, The (recordings)

  2000 Year Old Man Goes to School (book/CD set)

  2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 (book)

  2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 (recording)

  2000 Years With Carl Reiner Mel Brooks (recording)

  Two Women (film)

  Tynan, Kenneth

  Uger, Alan

  Ullman, Tracey

  Uncle Harry (play)

  Ustinov, Peter

  Vagrant, The (film)

  Vampire in Brooklyn (film)

  Van Patten, Dick

  Van Sloan, Edward

  Vertigo (film)

  Vogel, Irving “Speed,”

  Von Sydow, Max

  Voutsinas, Andreas

  Walk the Proud Land (film)

  Wallace, Mike

  Wallach, Eli

  Warren, Lesley Ann

  Wasserman, Lew

  Wayne, David

  Weaver, Fritz

  Weaver, Sylvester “Pat,”

  Weber, Steven

  Webster, Tony

  Welles, Orson

  West, Mae

  Whale, James

  What’s Up, Doc? (film)

  When the Shooting Stops, the Cutting Begins: A Film Editor’s Story (book)

  When Things Were Rotten (TV series)

  “When We Clean the Latrine” (song)

  Where’s Charley? (play)

  Wilder, Gene

  Wilk, Max

  Williams, Andy

  Williams, Billy

  Williams, Robin

  Williams, Tennessee

  Wingfield, Peter

  Wings (TV series)

  Winters, Jonathan

  Wish You Were Here (play)

  Wizard of Oz, The (film)

  Wolf Man, The (film)

  Women Who Run the Show (book)

  Writers Guild of America

  Wyner, George

  Yasbeck, Amy

  Yiddish Philosopher, The (radio series)

  Young Frankenstein (film)

  Young Frankenstein (projected play)

  Young, Gig

  “You’re the Top” (song)

  Your Show of Shows (TV series)

  Zelenka, Sydney

  Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, The (book)

  Zucker, David

  Zucker, Jerry

  Zuckerman, Buck Henry. See Henry, Buck

  Zuniga, Daphne

  About the Author

  James Robert Parish, a former entertainment reporter, publicist, and book series editor, is the author of many biographies and reference books about the entertainment industry, including The Hollywood Book of Breakups; Fiasco: A History of Hollywood’s Iconic Flops; Katharine Hepburn: The Untold Story; The Hollywood Book of Scandals; Whitney Houston; The Hollywood Book of Love; Hollywood Divas; Hollywood Bad Boys; The Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups in Hollywood; Jet Li; The Hollywood Book of Death; Gus Van Sant; Jason Biggs; Whoopi Goldberg; Rosie O’Donnells Story; The Unofficial “Murder, She Wrote’ Casebook; Let’s Talk! America’s Favorite TV Talk Show Hosts; Gays and Lesbians in Mainstream Cinema; The Great Cop Pictures; Ghosts and Angels in Hollywood Films; Prison Pictures from Hollywood; The Hollywood Reliables; The RKO Gals; and Hollywood’s Great Love Teams.

  Mr. Parish is a frequent on-camera interviewee on cable and network TV for documentaries on the performing arts both in the United States and in the United Kingdom. He resides in Studio City, California. Visit his Web site, www.jamesrobertparish.com.

 

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