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Mel Brooks is a genius-level comedy filmmaker. His undisputed masterpieces are The Producers, Young Frankenstein, and Blazing ...

Comedy legend Mel Brooks is a national treasure, unquestionably one of the most important and influential figures in ...

The musical adaptation of the film version of The Producers is one of Mel Brooks’ greatest successes ... He recalled: “David Geffen called me every day. I said, ‘David, it’s a perfectly ...

For many Americans, Presidents Day is a welcome respite from work or ... with family and friends in the White House Theater (Mel Brooks’ “High Anxiety”), and then in the evening, traveled ...

Let's look back at Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles ... Let’s cook.” Brooks told Playboy in 1975: "What grabbed me were the possibilities of a modern black man arriving in the traditional West.

“In my experience if you’re not working, you’re not really alive,” Mel Brooks writes in ... and the reader sees what a kick Brooks gets out of them to this day. He also lovingly describes ...

But when it came to Original Screenplay, Frank Sinatra and Don Rickles, they called, ‘Mel ... Brooks’ vocabulary considering his characteristically filthy humor still being in tact to this day ...

A new documentary will look at the life and career of filmmaker Mel Brooks, whose films like The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Spaceballs defined comedy for several ...

Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein (1974), back ... Wilder’s romantic and dashing portrayal of the modern-day Frankenstein, with his wavy Albert Einstein hair, hasn’t dated in the slightest.

"She has a lot to say about the state of arts in the modern day, and about family and about control," Nemati tells me. "Then I've got a Bronze Age character who's more from a tribal society and ...