Michael Seth Starr has covered television as a reporter and columnist at The New York Post since 1995. The author of several biographies of film and music stars, he has made frequent appearances on television including The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Entertainment Tonight and Tavis Smiley.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Part I: The Road to Stardom (1951-1959)

1. Down Among the Z Men

2. The Ladykillers

3. The Smallest Show on Earth

4. The Naked Truth

5. tom thumb

6. Up the Creek

7. Carlton-Browne of the F.0.

8. The Mouse That Roared

9. I'm All Right, Jack

10. The Battle of the Sexes

Part 11: The Best Sellers List (1960-1964)

11. Two-Way Stretch

12. Never Let Go

13. The Millionairess

14. Only Two Can Play

15. Waltz of the Toreadors

16. Lolita

17. The Wrong Am of the Law

18. Heavens Above!

19. The Pink Panther

20. Dr. Strangelove

21. The World of Henry Orient

22. A Shot in the Dark

Part 111: The Lost Decade (1965-1974)

23. What's New, Pussycat?

24. The Wrong Box

25. After the Fox

26. Casino Royale

27. The Bobo

28. The Party

29. I Love You, Alice B. Toklas

30. The Magic Christian

31. Hojhan

32. There's a Girl in My Soup

33. Where Does It Hurt?

34. The Blockhouse

35. The Optimists of Nine Elms

36. Ghost in the Noonday Sun

Part IV: A Sellers Market (1975-1980)

37. The Return of the Pink Panther

38. Murder by Death

39. The Pink Panther Strikes Again

40. The Revenge of the Pink Panther

41. The Prisoner of Zenda

42. Being There

43. The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

44. Epilogue

Part V: Interview with Blake Edwards

Notes

Index