Fans of Alan King (Name-Dropping: The Life & Lies of Alan King
), who died in May, will welcome this collection of over 75 reminiscences by Jews in the arts, politics, religion and sports, which Larry King conceived and organized. Although Alan...
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Alan King, Author Little Brown and Company $0 (218p) ISBN 978-0-316-49365-9
Restaurant critic, cookbook author (From My Mother's Kitchen, etc.) and food editor of Time, Sheraton first met comedian King when he was shouting directions to a captain at the ""21'' Club who was preparing steak tartare; when Sheraton voiced shock
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Alan King, Author Crown Publishers $16.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-609-60924-8
Organizing jokes by all the crucial categories-women, men, mothers, grandmothers, and rabbis-this book, as Billy Crystal puts it in his foreword, is ""a big, bubbling pot of borscht."" King, currently starring as MGM's big boss in the off-broadway...
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Alan King, Author, Chris Chase, With Scribner Book Company $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-684-80384-5
Though King has filled many shoes during his 50 years in show business-including those of a boxer, a Broadway producer and an actor-he's worn out the most leather as a stand-up comic. How appropriate it is, then, that in his entertaining memoir he...
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