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SHOW ME THE MAGIC : My Adventures in Life and Hollywood with Peter Sellers, Stanley Kubrick, Danny Kaye, Freddie Fields, Blake Edwards, Britt Ekland, Jo Van Fleet, Federico Fellini, Donald Sutherland, John Cassavetes, Mick Jagger, Paul Newman, Gena Rowlands, Elia Kazan, Kim
Published in Hardcover by Simon & Schuster (1999)
Author: Paul Mazursky
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Very Enjoyable, Recommended for Movie Buffs
I don't believe I've seen more than two of Mazursky's films but I enjoyed his book, especially the juicy chapter on his adventures with the increasingly more bizarre Peter Sellers. This is not a biography, but rather a series of essays about his involvement with different Hollywood people and some chapters about his current life and childhood. Recommended.

The Mensch (not the Mouse) Behind The Movies
An interesting, light and witty Summer read that gives you insight into Mazursky's career and tales of movie production. Mazursky, born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn started out as an actor (Blackboard Jungle), moved on to be a comedy writer (Danny Kaye, I Love You Alice B Toklas) when acting parts were infrequent, and made his directorial debut with Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. My favorite scenes in the book? When a young Mazursky catches his zade eating his bubbe's herring on the afternoon of Yom Kippur; when Eisner and Katzenberg ask Mazursky if he thinks that the I.B. Singer story (Enemies, A Love Story) is too Jewish... maybe it can be about the Cambodian Holocaust instead of the WWII one; when Richard Dreyfus pulls out of the Enemies project; and the creation of Down&Out in Beverly Hills.

I would have liked to have seen more!
I loved reading this book, both from the standpoint of appreciating Paul Mazursky the director of many of my favorite films and reveling in Paul Mazursky the no-holds-barred storyteller. But--and, I'm sorry, there is a 'but'---why devote one sentence to the great Art Carney, who Mazursky calls the most pure actor he'd ever worked with, and then not tell the reader WHY he feels that way about Carney? There are no anecdotes to share about Jill Clayburgh or Robin Williams? Come on, Paul, give! This lapse is mostly compensated for by Mazursky's tales of traveling in the "then" Soviet Union and South America, his memories of working for Danny Kaye and his sharing the bitter and the sweet about his family, his friends and the ups and downs of his life. The chapter about Mazursky's relationship with his mother is especially powerful and a reminder that much of the pathos within even his funniest films came honestly to him. So, five stars for what's here---just would've liked to have seen more!


As time goes by; living in the sixties with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Brian Epstein, Allen Klein, Mae West, Brian Wilson, the Byrds, Danny Kaye, the Beach Boys, one wife and six children in London, Los Angeles, New York City, and on the road
Published in Unknown Binding by Straight Arrow Books; [distributed by Quick Fox, New York ()
Author: Derek Taylor
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Children of the World Paint Jerusalem
Published in Paperback by Bantam Doubleday Dell ()
Author: Danny Kaye
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Danny Kaye Variety Show
Published in Audio CD by Mr Punch Audio Books ()
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Nobody's Fool: The Lives of Danny Kaye
Published in Hardcover by Simon & Schuster (1994)
Author: Martin Gottfried
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The Secret Life of Danny Kaye
Published in Hardcover by St. Martin's Press (1986)
Author: Michael Freedland
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