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Will the real Mel Brooks please stand up?

His latest memoir All About Me! is certainly monomaniacal, but Brooks still manages to conceal the real ‘me’

Mel Brooks (Getty images)

  • All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business

    Mel Brooks

    Century, pp. 400, £16

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