Mel Brooks Retrospective Coming to HBO
HBO is set to chronicle comedy legend Mel Brooks’ career next month in a retrospective called Mel Brooks Strikes Back! Brooks will be joined on stage in front of a live studio audience by BBC creative director Alan Yentob as the two discuss Brooks’ long and illustrious career as an actor, comedian, composer, director, producer, writer and all the odd jobs along the way. According to a press release from the pay cabler, the special will feature clips of his appearances in classic movies and TV such as Your Show of Shows, The Producers and Blazing Saddles. He’ll also take... read more
Found in: TV, NewsMel Brooks' Seven Greatest Moments
While bestowing Kennedy Center Honors upon a certain comic legend, President Obama quipped... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayMel Brooks Says Blazing Saddles Musical on the Way
Mel Brooks, the funnyman who’s perfected the art of offending everyone in equal measure, has a new stage project in the works: He’s adapting a musical version of his 1974 Western satire, Blazing Saddles.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsThe Fifty Best Living Directors
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Found in: Movies, FeaturesMel Brooks keeps business open as a Pizzaman
Continuing a 30-year penchant for the serious, Mel Brooks announced yesterday he will not be closing his film company Brooksfilms Ltd. as a May 30 gossip column had recently claimed. "Brooksfilms is still here and will be going on for a while," the octogenarian told The Hollywood Reporter. "I'm not at all slowing down, and nobody has told me to stop."... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsBehold: Young Frankenstein: The Musical
One of the most bizarrely postmodern events of the last few years was the 2005 version of The Producers. The film was a cinematic adaptation of the 2001 stage musical, but what made it strange was that the musical was itself based on another movie called The Producers, which was released in 1968. Essentially, it took 37 years to remake a movie with the help of a stage musical. This narrative may be repeated again, as The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein will burst through Broadway on November 8. Like The Producers, Frankenstein is the work of comedic mastermind... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsGet ready for Young Frankenstein: The Musical
One of the most bizarrely postmodern events of the last few years was the 2005 version of The Producers. The film was a cinematic adaptation of the 2001 stage musical, but what made it strange — and perhaps unprecedented — was that the musical was itself based on another movie called The Producers, which was released in 1968. Essentially, it took 37 years to remake a movie with the help of a stage musical. This narrative may be repeated again, as The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein will burst through Broadway on November 8. Like The Producers, Frankenstein is... read more
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