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| Name: |
Mel Brooks | | Variant Name: |
Melvin Kaminsky, Melvin Kaminski | | Birth Date: |
June 28, 1926 | | Place of Birth: |
New York, New York, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
film and theater producer, film and theater director, actor, playwright and screenwriter |
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Biography of Mel Brooks
4,126 words, approx. 14 pages
 "Humor is just another defense against the universe," Mel Brooks once observed. Screenwriter, director, actor, producer, comedian and occasional Two-Thousand-Year-Old Man: no one title is encompassing enough to capture--let alone tame--Brooks. He is...
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Biography of Mel Brooks
2,074 words, approx. 7 pages
 Mel Brooks (born 1926) transformed traditional burlesque and Jewish humor into a hit-and-miss career writing and directing film parodies of traditional Hollywood genres. His biggest success came late in his career when he adapted his first film, The...
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Biography of Mel Brooks
1,804 words, approx. 6 pages
 Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn, New York, to Max and Kate Brookman Kaminsky. His comedy career began at an early age with humorous routines he performed for his classmates at school, routines that he later incorporated into his films....



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Mel Brooks Quotes
2,125 words, approx. 7 pages
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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Brooks, Mel (1926—) Summary
1,039 words, approx. 4 pages A woman once accosted filmmaker Mel Brooks and angrily told him that his 1968 comedy The Producers was "vulgar." "Madame," he said with an air of pride, "it rises below vulgarity." Mel Brooks spent a career as...
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Mel Brooks Information
2,299 words, approx. 8 pages
 Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is a multi-award winning American director, writer, comedian, actor and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies. Brooks is a member of the short list of entertainers with the distinction...




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 The New York Observer
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 The New York Observer
It Lives! Mel\'d5s Frankenstein Digs Up the Monster Ticket
9/4/2007: 635 words, approx. 2 pages The $450 top ticket price for the new Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein is shocking in this regard: Why so little? After all, itâs a free country. If our Mel wants to charge a kingâs ransom to see a show, whatâs it to you? Itâs...
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 AP News
Danza to play `The Producers' in Vegas
6/19/2007: 287 words, approx. 1 pages Tony Danza will reprise his lead role as Max Bialystock in the Las Vegas version of Mel Brooks' hit Broadway show "The Producers.""I love the part," said Danza, a former star of TV's "Taxi" and "Who's the Boss," who signed to take over Aug. 13...
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 AP News
`The Pirate Queen' will close June 17
6/6/2007: 250 words, approx. 1 pages "The Pirate Queen," shipwrecked by blistering reviews and sinking box-office receipts, will close June 17 after a disappointing Broadway run.The lavish musical by the team who created "Les Miserables" and "Miss Saigon" will have played 85 performances when it calls it quits at the Hilton...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Herbert Gold
677 words, approx. 2 pages
 [Brooks] is the little boy, the youngest son, so beloved by his family and continually tossed in the air that his feet didn't touch the ground till he was 6 years old. He has been resting securely on the wind ever since. He knows he can always get home. He also gives an audience this dreamy assurance: They can wander in fantasy and nightmare, but with Kafka or Lenny Bruce, other Jewish masters of controlled psychosis, they were not sure of getting home from the dream. With Mel Brooks, they are merely...
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Critical Essay by Pauline Kael
637 words, approx. 2 pages
 Brooks not only isn't a director—he isn't really a writer, either. He's the cutup in the audience whose manic laughter and unrestrained comments stop the show. Essentially, he is the audience; he's the most cynical and the most appreciative of audiences—nobody laughs harder, nobody gets more derisive. He was perfectly cast in the short "The Critic." His humor is a show-business comment on show business. Mel Brooks is in a special position: his criticis...
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Critical Essay by Tom Allen, S.c.
267 words, approx. 1 pages
 Mel Brooks, along with Woody Allen, has progressed as a prolific, one-man source of American screen comedy. Both comedians have picked up where Jerry Jewis died off and have actively participated in the writing, acting, producing and directing of their films. Neither has settled for a personal, distinctive style yet, but they are giving the previous, well-defined comic personae, such as W. C. Fields and the Marx Brothers, stiff competition. They work in safe ranges well below the level of the great silent c...


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