The movies, of course, take up many pages in a book that Brooks clearly enjoyed writing.Īt least, that is, once he decided to do so. There are chapters dedicated to his friendships with colleagues, including his beloved friend Carl Reiner, and others on his head-over-heels romance with his second wife, the actress Anne Bancroft.
The book takes Brooks from his boyhood in Brooklyn during the Depression to World War II, and then from his early days as a Catskills entertainer to his first break as a comedy writer on Sid Caesar’s groundbreaking TV series “Your Show of Shows.” “I’d lived so long and I’ve had so many adventures and done so many different things.”
30, weighs in at 480 pages, and Brooks says he could have easily written another 200 or 300 pages. “All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business,” which arrived Tuesday, Nov.
