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Title: Outstanding and entertaining!
Review: These five profiles were written when New Yorker profiles were considerably longer than they are now, and they are thoughtful, insightful pieces about very interesting people. It's also interesting because we know what happened with some of these people in the decades since: although Tynan says that Johnny Carson was at the top of the mountain, we now know that he would stay there for many more years. One of the most interesting pieces, in retrospect, is the piece on Tom Stoppard: Tynan compares him to a then little known Czech political playwright named Vaclav Havel -- who later went on to become a prominent dissident and the first president of the Czech Republic. And the Mel Brooks piece is timeless.
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