Mel Brooks News
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“We have to stop. I just pulled that note out of the blue,” said Audra McDonald on stage last night at Avery Fisher Hall. “I’m so proud of myself. Yay, Juilliard!”
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Terrence Malick, for whom the phrase “iconoclastic filmmaker” could have been invented, used to disappear for decades between his dark and mysterious films.
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Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize- winning film critic famous for his thumbs-up, thumbs-down method of judging movies, has died. He was 70.
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“I lived with my mother intimately for 22 years and never saw the furniture. On every piece of furniture was a sheet to keep the dust off.”
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Whatever else Manti Te’o manages to accomplish in his interview with Katie Couric, the humiliated Notre Dame linebacker will at least be proving Karl Marx right: All historical events really do occur twice, first as tragedy, then as farce.
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“I am being sunk by a society that demands success when all I can offer is failure,” says the ruined theater impresario Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks’s “The Producers.”
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I expected to see protesters outside Theater for the New City the night I went down to Manhattan’s East Village for “Hoaxocaust!”
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Comedy in jackboots is, with all due respect to Mel Brooks , a tough sell. Ernst Lubitsch found this out with his brilliant 1942 film “To Be, or Not To Be,” about a ragtag theater troupe struggling to survive in Warsaw during Hitler’s rise to power. The reaction to the movie was brutal, despite a cast headed by Carole Lombard and Jack Benny.
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Alex Karras, who followed one successful career in professional football with another in movies and television, play-punching a horse in one of the signature madcap scenes of “Blazing Saddles,” has died. He was 77.
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Master of the quip, maker of careers, mean drunk, frequent philanderer and TV legend: Heeeere’s Johnny.
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