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UTUSN

(70,714 posts) Sun May 5, 2013, 01:57 PM May 2013

"The Producers" (Zero MOSTEL) is on TCM. Mel BROOKS movies are the only ones I can repeat & repeat

I'm not a movie buff. There are some movies that even I myself consider "great" that I can't/don't-want to repeat, I guess mostly dramas because these mostly turn on the first time surprise of the plot.

But comedies just roll and roll. The non-Mel ones I repeat: A Fish Called Wanda and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

But Mel: Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, Life Stinks, Robin Hood Men in Tights, History of the World Part 1.

Zero Zero Zero. Gene WILDER having a panic attack. (In other ones: ) Madelyn KAHN, Harvey KORMAN. Just their names are gold, no qualifiers.

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"The Producers" (Zero MOSTEL) is on TCM. Mel BROOKS movies are the only ones I can repeat & repeat (Original Post) UTUSN May 2013 OP

Saw him on Kimmel jakeXT May 2013 #1

Thanks for that. I just looked Zero up in Wiki and he was blacklisted during most of the '50s n/t UTUSN May 2013 #2

Mel won the Best Screenplay Oscar, over Kubrick and Clarke for 2001 A Space Odyssey! edbermac May 2013 #3

Whoa!1 And great clip. SINATRA at his best and RICKLES. And Mel thanked Zero ONCE & Gene THREE times UTUSN May 2013 #4

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)

1. Saw him on Kimmel

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Sun May 5, 2013, 02:08 PM

May 2013

There is a documentary on him out

After 60 years in show business, Mel Brooks has earned more major awards than any other living entertainer; he is one of 14 EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winners. Yet, the comedy giant has energetically avoided a documentary profile being made, even issuing an informal gag order on his friends … until now. Brooks agreed to throw himself into a new documentary about his storied career, giving American Masters exclusive interviews and complete access to his film and photo archives.

Premiering nationwide Monday, May 20, 2013 on PBS (check local listings), Mel Brooks: Make a Noise features new interviews with Brooks, his friends and colleagues, including Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Joan Rivers, Tracey Ullman, and his close friend, with whom he created The 2000 Year Old Man more than 50 years ago, Carl Reiner.

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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/mel-brooks-make-a-noise/2489/