It's Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks
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Book details
- Author
- James Robert Parish
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 340
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography › Entertainment & Performing Arts
Biography & Autobiography › Rich & Famous - Topics
- comedian biography · Anne Bancroft · Hollywood director · Broadway musicals · Jewish entertainers · television history · celebrity marriage
- ISBN-13
- 9780470225264 (Paperback)9781630261214 (Hardcover)
About the author
JAMES ROBERT PARISH is an American author, entertainment historian, and biographer, and the author of more than one hundred books on show business and Hollywood celebrities. His recent books include Fiasco: A History of Hollywood’s Iconic Flops, The Hollywood Book of Extravagance and It’s Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks.
Parish holds a degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is a former entertainment reporter for Variety. He has also worked as a publicist, book series editor, and lawyer in New York, and appears frequently as an on-camera expert on A&E’s Biography and E! Television’s True Hollywood Stories.
James lives in Studio City, California.