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  Mel Brooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, writer /director, and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies, or as he says, "spoofs."
Brooks and wife Anne Bancroft worked together on three films: Brooks' 1983 remake of To Be or Not to Be, his 1995 film Dracula: Dead and Loving It and in his 1976 Silent Movie.
Brooks was married to Florence Baum from 1951 to 1961.
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 The Producers | the new MEL BROOKS musical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1955 and in 1957, Brooks received Emmy Award nominations (with others) for best comedy writing for "Caesars Hour" and in 1956, he was nominated (with others) for best writing for a variety or situation comedy.
In 1997, Brooks and Reiner teamed up again for "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000." Both a book and CD were released, the CD winning a Grammy Award in 1998 for the Best Spoken Word Album: Comedy.
Brooks wrote and narrated "The Critic," a short satire on avant-garde art films, for which he won the Academy Award for best animated short subject in 1964.
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 Mel Brooks - [Pun of the Day - Funny People]
Hailing from Brooklyn, N.Y., and born in 1928 as Melvin Kaminsky, Mel Brooks has been a comedy writer-director with a satiric touch and farcical stylings.
Brooks started his career as a stand-up comic in the 1940s, heavily influenced by Harry Ritz of The Ritz Brothers.
In 2000, Brooks collaborated with Thomas Meehan (the award-winning librettist of "Annie") in adapting the comedy classic "The Producers" for the stage.
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 Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks joined the Army when he was 17, became a combat engineer, where one of his tasks was defusing landmines.
Brooks wrote for several of network television's earliest comedies and variety shows, including Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, where he met and meshed with Carl Reiner.
Both movies were popular and critical hits, and Brooks was heralded as the only challenger to Woody Allen as the most hilarious auteur of the 1970s.
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 Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks's 1987 parody of the Star Wars trilogy is a jumble of jokes rather than a comic feature, and, predictably, some of those jokes work better than others.
In 1995, it was promising to hear that Mel Brooks was creating "the companion piece to Young Frankenstein." He had also brought in the heavyweight of deadpan--Leslie Nielsen.
Brooks and his writers use a very tight adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, but the spoofs can be spelled out as we go, as if they are paint-by-number.
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 WouldYouBelieve.com - Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks was born in New York City June 28, 1926 as Melvin Kaminsky.
Brooks was hired by Dan Melnick to create a spy spoof for television in 1964.
Brooks helped create many of the concepts behind Get Smart, and is responsible for naming the lead character Max, which is also the name of his son.
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 Salon.com People | Mel Brooks
Like his hit musical "The Producers," Mel Brooks is an unlikely combination of innocent optimism, bawdy irreverence and unbridled chutzpah.
And if, at age 75, Brooks is the bright new darling of the American theater, it's because he has spent a lifetime brazenly getting in our faces and shamelessly prodding us to laugh, and because, for all the alleged comedy in our must-see TV and Tom Green world, we're starved for real humor.
Brooks followed his albums by co-creating, with Buck Henry, the spoof series "Get Smart." A goofy blend of spy shtick and gimmickry, it lacked the brilliance of "Your Show of Shows," but it further established its creator's comedy pedigree.
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 Mel Brooks News
On September 5, 2006, 20th Century Fox will release five classic Mel Brooks films: Robin Hood: Men in Tights, the Twelve Chairs, To Be or Not To Be, High Anxiety, and Silent Movie on DVD.
Mel Brooks, the goofy great mind behind Broadway's comic smash The Producers, may never direct another movie -- the poor guy's eighty years old, after all -- but that's okay, as long as we get to watch Young...
When Mel Brooks made his first movie, "The Producers," in 1968, he couldn't have known what the future would bring for his brainchild.
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 Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks - The Complete 2000 Year Old Man [Boxed Set] - at Rhino
The Astronaught - Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks
The Psychiatrist - Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks
Dolly Madison - Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks
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 Mel Brooks
Interview: Mel Brooks discusses the successful run of "The Producers" and his life in comedy
Mel Brooks' hit musical `The Producers' goes on first national tour.
But Mel Brooks has only ever truly loved one woman in his life 2.As a new film version of his most famous comedy musical opens today, we meet...
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 IGN: Featured Filmmaker: Mel Brooks
Brooks served in WWII as a corporal clearing landmines, a skill that probably served him well as a comic in the Catskills – during which time he was spotted and hired as writer for Sid Caesar, joining a virtual pantheon of comedy which included Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, Woody Allen, and Larry Gelbart.
Young Frankenstein: If you’re looking for a Brooks flick that fires on all cylinders, has aged well, and has all of the Brooks-isms that fans love, it would have to be the tale of Victor Frankenstein’s grandson Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder).
Both show Brooks at his lowest, and the results are difficult to watch.
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 Mel Brooks Mulling Broadway 'Frankenstein'
December 02, 2005, 4:15 PM ET Margo Whitmire, L.A. As Mel Brooks prepares to introduce the movie remake of "The Producers" next month, the legendary entertainer is mulling a return to his cult classic 1974 comedy, "Young Frankenstein," this time for a possible Broadway version.
Brooks wrote a new end-credit track, "There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway," which is featured on the Sony Classical soundtrack along with a Celine Dion-style power ballad performance of "Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop" by Ferrell.
Brooks cautions audiences to stay in their seats for the credits: "So many things are going to happen and the audience will be unsuspecting.
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 MEL,BROOK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mel Brooks on being a Jew: I may be angry at God or at the world, and I'm sure that a lot of my comedy is based on anger and hostility...It comes from a feeling that as a Jew and as a person, I don't...
Brooke Ramel is a singer songwriter and guitar player who creates original music.
His final appearance was as "Herr Falkstaff" nine the open of Mel Brook's film Young Frankenstein.
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 Amazon.com: Mel Brooks Box Set Collection (Blazing Saddles / Young Frankenstein / Silent Movie / Robin Hood: Men in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
By this time, Brooks was more actively taking the leading roles himself (rather than the bit parts), and unfortunately relying less on his topnotch ensemble of recurring players, which included Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, and Dom Deluise.
Fans of Brooks will be buying this for the previously unreleased films "Silent Movie", "Robin Hood:Men in Tights", "To Be or Not to Be" (which Brooks didn't direct but stars in) and "High Anxiety".
Mel Brooks: May the Schwartz be with you!
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 The Mel Brooks Webring Homepage
It's here for all you die-hard Mel Brooks Fans, and pretty much anybody whoever got a chuckle out of Mel's Movies.
After All, Mel was the jewel of each, so you can't like his movies without liking him.
This site is in no way offiliated with Mel Brooks or Brooksfilm Ltd. All movies and characters are copyright of their respective companies.
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 Mel Brooks - Reviews on RateItAll
See the name Mel Brooks attached to anything and you know you will be gaurenteed a good time and a few laughs.
After the extremely successful and enjoyable Get Smart, Mel Brooks moved on to make some of the worst comedy movies of all time.
Even worse, Brooks is an awful actor--but makes his way into all of his films.
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 Mel Brooks Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Howard Morris.
Starring Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Ron Carey.
Starring Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin, Howard Morris, Rudy DeLuca, Matthew Faison, Billy Barty, Michael Ensign.
www.tv-now.com /stars/melbrook.html   (651 words)

  
 NPR : Mel Brooks: A Lifetime of Laughter
Morning Edition, August 18, 2004 · Mel Brooks has spent decades making people laugh.
A big hit on television in the 1950s, he found silver screen success in the 1970s with such films as Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.
After decades in the comedy business, Brooks says he's not still in it just to get richer.
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Mel Brooks toliko ga je nabio crnim humorom, igrama rijeèi i gegovima da se logika velo brzo gubi i samo se neprestano smijete.
Opis: Mel Brooks's 1981, three-part comedy--set in the Stone Age, the Roman Empire, and the French Revolution--is pure guilty pleasure.
Opis: King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs.
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 Amazon.com: Mel Brooks: The Irreverent Funnyman: Books: Bill Adler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Mel Brooks Quotes - Famous Quotes by Mel Brooks from Basic Quotations - Famous Quotes by Famous People - Famous ...
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Mel Brooks Quotes - Famous Quotes by Mel Brooks
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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 Mel Brooks (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Son, Max Brooks, with Anne Bancroft, born 1972.
Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks / Melvin Brooks
Recording 'The Producers': A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks (2001) (TV)....
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 [short genius] The Mel Brooks Fanlisting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Welcome to Short Genius, the only fanlisting approved at The Fanlistings Network for Mel Brooks.
This site was designed in Mozilla Firefox, but should work across all browsers with a screen resolution equal to or greater than 800x600.
Disclaimer: I am not in any way affiliated with Mel Brooks.
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 Mel Brooks - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review
Join Mel Brooks for a tour of his Broadway blockbuster, The Producers, winner of a record 12 Tony Awards.
SONY Recording the Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks' The Producers has the honorable distinction of being the biggest smash in the history of Broadway!
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 DVD Aficionado - Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Dernière folie de Mel Brooks, Le (1976) -- REGION 2
U.K. Mel Brooks' Dracula: Tot aber glücklich (Full Screen) (1995) -- REGION 2
Twelve Chairs, The - The Mel Brooks Collection (1970) -- REGION 2
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 Rock-n-Reel Store - Search Results for: Mel Brooks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mel Brooks Box Set Collection (Blazing Saddles / Young Frankenstein / Silent Movie / Robin Hood: Men in Tights / To Be or Not to Be / History of the World, Part 1 / The Twelve Chairs / High Anxiety) - DVD
Brooks - Trance NXS - Women - Apparel
Brooks - Trance NXS - Men - Apparel
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 Mel Brooks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Allen was personal and self-deprecating, Cosby eschewed shtick in favor of witty commentary, and Brooks--often working with Carl Reiner--embraced the craziness at the root of all ethnic burlesque and reshaped it for decades to come.
Brooks graduated from 1950s TV writer (Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows") to successful 1960s series creator ("Get Smart") before breaking into features with "The Producers" (1968), which set the zany, comedic tone of all his subsequent films....
Silent Movie - (Mel Funn / 1976 / Released / 20th Century Fox International)
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 Prelude   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Okay, we're not letting you in unless you answer one question
B.) Well, if you don't pick Mel Brooks, just leave...
C.) I am insulted by the question and think it violates my rights as a citizen
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