Mel Brooks

Nov 3, 2024 | editorial.rottentomatoes.com | Steven Spielberg |John Carpenter |Mel Brooks |Werner Herzog

Comb your porn ’stache, put on some vinyl (records or disco boots, your choice), and smell that lead in the gasoline – we’re heading back to the Me Decade with the 100 Best 1970s Horror Movies!The ’70s were a decade of upheaval for the genre, transforming horror into a legitimate vessel for awards recognition (The Exorcist) and the birth of the blockbuster (Jaws).

Nov 2, 2024 | editorial.rottentomatoes.com | Mel Brooks |Alex Vo

Blazing Saddles celebrates its 50th anniversary!Mel Brooks career as a director started in the late 1960s, after he and Carl Reiner worked up the live comedy circuit with their famous and malleable 2000-year-old man routine. Brooks directorial debut was as audacious as it gets: a musical comedy about Adolf Hitler. As these things usually go, The Producers would win an Oscar, and 12 Tonys as a Broadway play three decades later.

Sep 3, 2024 | theguardian.com | Mel Brooks

My friend Fiona (Flo) Evans, who has died aged 65 of heart failure, was an ecologist involved in helping to establish Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) across Meirionnydd in north Wales. Her career in the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) was spent working with landowners, farmers and planners to conserve fragile ecosystems. She loved to debate and was a passionate advocate for nature as well as an expert witness in conservation prosecutions.

Aug 11, 2024 | hoerzu.at | Mel Brooks |Alan Uger |Andrew Bergman |Richard Pryor |Norman Steinberg

BeschreibungWeil die Eisenbahn durch ein Städtchen geführt werden soll, kommt der Staatsanwalt Lamarr auf die Idee, die Bevölkerung durch den Terror einer Räuberbande zu vertreiben. Die Standhaften bestellen beim etwas beschränkten Gouverneur Lepetomane einen neuen Sheriff, was Lamarr dadurch zu hintertreiben sucht, dass er den schwarzen Eisenbahnarbeiter Bart vom Galgen rettet und zum Sheriff ernennen lässt.

Aug 9, 2024 | kpbs.org | Mel Brooks

Monday, Aug.12, 2024 on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! With a career spanning nine decades, EGOT winner Mel Brooks is the master of parody and comedy. From Brooklyn, live TV (with Sid Caesar) and Broadway, to going all the way to Hollywood, Mel Brooks tells us with his unflinching Jewish humor about his prolific career and becoming a world-famous entertainer.