“When you’re dead, you can’t do much,” Mel Brooks says in his first overt political statement without a punchline. It is a big turnaround from the position he took while making the 1995 vampire comedy, Dracula: Dead and Loving It. But Brooks has enough limits in his life right now. He can only see his son and grandson through protective glass. His closest friend, the late and wonderful Carl Reiner, no longer picks up morning coffee. Brooks is endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden for president because President Trump is “not doing a damn thing” about the coronavirus pandemic.
“My father, @MelBrooks, is 94. He has never made a political video. Until now,” Brooks’s son, author Max Brooks, tweeted along with a video of Mel addressing the camera while his son and grandson stand forlornly behind a glass window.
My father, @MelBrooks, is 94. He has never made a political video.
“My father, @MelBrooks, is 94. He has never made a political video. Until now,” Brooks’s son, author Max Brooks, tweeted along with a video of Mel addressing the camera while his son and grandson stand forlornly behind a glass window.
My father, @MelBrooks, is 94. He has never made a political video.
- 10/21/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
When Buck Henry and Mel Brooks created 1965's Get Smart, both were at peak points in their careers.
In 1968, Henry would receive an Academy Award nomination for writing The Graduate; the next year, Brooks would win a screenwriting Oscar for The Producers.
The Get Smart premise had inept secret agent Maxwell Smart trying to foil the evil plots of the rival Kaos spy network. The idea to create a spy who combined earnest seriousness with complete cluelessness came from producer Dan Melnick, who put the two writers together.
Henry, who died in January at 89, said in a 2008 interview that ...
In 1968, Henry would receive an Academy Award nomination for writing The Graduate; the next year, Brooks would win a screenwriting Oscar for The Producers.
The Get Smart premise had inept secret agent Maxwell Smart trying to foil the evil plots of the rival Kaos spy network. The idea to create a spy who combined earnest seriousness with complete cluelessness came from producer Dan Melnick, who put the two writers together.
Henry, who died in January at 89, said in a 2008 interview that ...
When Buck Henry and Mel Brooks created 1965's Get Smart, both were at peak points in their careers.
In 1968, Henry would receive an Academy Award nomination for writing The Graduate; the next year, Brooks would win a screenwriting Oscar for The Producers.
The Get Smart premise had inept secret agent Maxwell Smart trying to foil the evil plots of the rival Kaos spy network. The idea to create a spy who combined earnest seriousness with complete cluelessness came from producer Dan Melnick, who put the two writers together.
Henry, who died in January at 89, said in a 2008 interview that ...
In 1968, Henry would receive an Academy Award nomination for writing The Graduate; the next year, Brooks would win a screenwriting Oscar for The Producers.
The Get Smart premise had inept secret agent Maxwell Smart trying to foil the evil plots of the rival Kaos spy network. The idea to create a spy who combined earnest seriousness with complete cluelessness came from producer Dan Melnick, who put the two writers together.
Henry, who died in January at 89, said in a 2008 interview that ...
Some people might remember Get Smart from 2008, which featured the involvement of a number of famous names such as Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, and the Rock. For those who are unfamiliar with the movie, it was based on a series of the same name from Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, so it should come as no surprise to learn that it was a comedy. To be exact, Get Smart was a comedy that relied on satirizing secret agent media for its laughs. In further detail, Get Smart was centered around an analyst named Maxwell Smart, who wants to become
Are We Ever Going to See a “Get Smart 2?”...
Are We Ever Going to See a “Get Smart 2?”...
- 6/12/2018
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Anne Hathaway stars in the 2018 film “Ocean’s 8,” a female reboot of the “Ocean’s 11” films with George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon. The new version includes an all-star cast featuring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling and Rihanna.
Stardom came quickly for Hathaway when she first began her career. After one season on an unsuccessful sitcom, Hathaway found herself cast as the star of Garry Marshall’s film “The Princess Diaries.” It was kind of a case of art imitating life since in the film a young high school girl finds out she is really a princess and is launched into the public eye. The same thing pretty much happened to Hathaway. The acting bug though wesent in her system since after all she was named after the wife of William Shakespeare and her mother was a former actress who gave up her career to raise a family.
Stardom came quickly for Hathaway when she first began her career. After one season on an unsuccessful sitcom, Hathaway found herself cast as the star of Garry Marshall’s film “The Princess Diaries.” It was kind of a case of art imitating life since in the film a young high school girl finds out she is really a princess and is launched into the public eye. The same thing pretty much happened to Hathaway. The acting bug though wesent in her system since after all she was named after the wife of William Shakespeare and her mother was a former actress who gave up her career to raise a family.
- 6/8/2018
- by Robert Pius and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
The Classic TV series Get Smart introduced the world to Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, secret agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, both working for the secret government agency Control and taking on the world-threatening Kaos. The show itself is a full-blown parody of the spymania boom created by the James Bond films throughout the 1960s, though what's interesting is that a spoof usually comes at the end of a creative cycle, many of them signaling a last gasp of sorts from whatever subject is being parodied. Get Smart, on the other hand, came three years into the boom. When the show premiered in the fall of 1965, there had only been three 007 movies, with things really exploding at the end of that year with the release of the fourth, Thunderball. Donna McChrohan Rosenthal, author of the non-fiction exploration of the show The Life and Times of Maxwell Smart, explains in an exclusive interview,...
- 4/30/2018
- by Ed Gross
- Closer Weekly
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