The Producers

2,000+ Words for the 2,000 Year Old Man: Mel Brooks Is Saluted by the Academy

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 08.25.2009 | Entertainment


Gregory Weinkauf

Cloris Leachman aptly put it, "There is much that is serious about Mel Brooks. Inside that rapid-fire humor machine is a man with deep emotions, with a great capacity to care, and to love."

A Hilariously Tasteless Birth of a Notion

Marshall Fine | Posted 02.27.2009 | Entertainment


Marshall Fine

Without films like Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? we wouldn't have had the Farrelly brothers, the Judd Apatow machine or a lot of other comedy that's fairly commonplace today.