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The Funny Story Behind Josh Gad Pitching Spaceballs 2 To Mel Brooks Involves Decades Of Star Wars History And The ‘Greatest Compliment’

Cinema Blend 23 Jan 2025
As Josh Gad works on a Spaceballs sequel, he recalls the funny story of pitching the new movie to creator Mel Brooks – which involves decades of Star Wars history and the “greatest compliment” from him.
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Jews in the News: An Artist at War; Chalamet on “SNL”; 90+, alive, and Jewish; ...

The American Israelite 23 Jan 2025
By Nate Bloom. Contributing Columnist ... Hirsch’s paternal grandfather was Jewish ... Notice ... She’s a Grammy, Tony, and Emmy winner; and last, but not least, is MEL BROOKS, 98, a comedic jack-of-trades, a Tony-winning song composer, and a WWII combat veteran.
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Why the honest, defiant David Lynch will be missed

Columbia Daily Tribune 23 Jan 2025
It also got the attention of Mel Brooks who, of all people, tapped Lynch to direct “The Elephant Man.” Lynch’s first attempt to streamline his aesthetic into a more traditional narrative created a ...
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Column: The narco musical ‘Emilia Pérez’ isn’t as bad as critics say — it’s worse

The Los Angeles Times 23 Jan 2025
... set piece in Busby Berkeley's “Gold Diggers of 1933.” One of the most hilarious ripostes to Nazism is still Mel Brooks’ “The Producers.” “Emilia Pérez” thinks it’s in that transgressive tradition.
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Andy Prest: It's time for some inspirational words from Joe the Canadian

North Shore News 22 Jan 2025
... something else – particularly something else that is much bigger and stronger than us and gave the world both Mel Brooks and the cheeseburger – but that commercial hit the spot. .
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Brian Warfield of The Wolfe Tones launches his musical about The Famine

RTE 22 Jan 2025
It even may recall Mel BrooksThe Producers but for Wolfe Tones front man Brian Warfield writing a musical about the Irish Famine was a very serious business ... The Wolfe Tones ... The Musical is staged for the very first time ... "I had to do it ... ... .
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Just a Bit Outside

New York Magazine 20 Jan 2025
That’s a rare gift, and Mel Brooks, who is sitting beside Uecker on the couch, recognizes it, tossing Uecker the comedic equivalent of slow pitches over home plate ... “Doing eight minutes on jock itch!” Brooks delightedly exclaims.
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Reach your reading goals this year with help from Shreve Memorial Library

Shreveport Times 19 Jan 2025
the 50th Anniversary of the Year of Mel Brooks by Bruce Hallenbeck (non-fiction). The year 1974 was a busy one for Mel Brooks ... and cinematic alchemy that led to 1974 becoming “the year of Mel Brooks.”.
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Subversive, warm and wild at heart: David Lynch deserves all his tributes

The Observer 19 Jan 2025
Even this may not be enough for Lynch obsessives, for whom he was the ultimate countercultural outlier, the weirdo’s weirdo, who changed film and television for ever ... Mel Brooks, who hired Lynch to helm The Elephant Man (1980), observed ... Photograph ... .
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Director David Lynch dies at age 78

RNZ 18 Jan 2025
Lynch, a former Eagle Scout who was once described by producer Mel Brooks as "Jimmy Stewart from Mars," grew up to be a counterculture icon but his roots were firmly planted in small-town, wholesome America.
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David Lynch Was L.A.’s Strangest Weatherman

The Atlantic 18 Jan 2025
Mel Brooks, who gave Lynch his first major-studio directorial gig (The Elephant Man, which Brooks produced), famously once called him “Jimmy Stewart from Mars.” It also seems true to say that if Mars ...
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David Lynch, visionary Twin Peaks director, dies at 78

Harpers Bazaar 18 Jan 2025
David Lynch, the visionary and eccentric director behind Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, and Eraserhead, has died at the age of 78 ... After Eraserhead, a producer for Mel Brooks contracted Lynch to direct The Elephant Man ... Fire Walk with Me ... Love, David." ... .
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Our favorite memories of and tributes to the great David Lynch

Polygon 17 Jan 2025
He was 78 years old ... His friendship with Mel Brooks. Love the Mel Brooks/David Lynch friendship so much— John Frankensteiner (@jfrankensteiner.bsky.social) 2025-01-17T00.10.44.341Z ... I will miss him.— Mel Brooks (@MelBrooks) January 16, 2025.
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'Blue Velvet', 'The Elephant Man' director David Lynch passes away at 78

Beijing News 17 Jan 2025
Washington [USA], January 17 (ANI) ... We would appreciate some privacy at this time ... Noting his skills, Mel Brooks production gave an opportunity to David to write and direct 'The Elephant Man.'The film was an immediate success at the box office ... (ANI) .
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Filmmaker David Lynch dies at 78

Dawn 17 Jan 2025
LOS ANGELES ... Lynch, a former Eagle Scout who was once described by producer Mel Brooks as “Jimmy Stewart from Mars”, grew up to be a counterculture icon, but his roots were firmly planted in small-town, wholesome America ... .

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