Mel Brooks
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Pub. Date
2021
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now he shares his story for the first time in “a wonderful addition to a seminal career” (San Francisco Chronicle), “infused with nostalgia and his signature hilarity” (Parade).
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: New York Post •...
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: New York Post •...
2) Life Stinks
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An unconventional comedy of non-stop laughs! Mel Brooks plays a billionaire who, on a bet, takes to the L.A. streets for one month and ends up with the education of a lifetime.
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In the late 1950's, a fresh style of standup comedy emerged tackling previously taboo subjects as sex, religion, politics, and drugs. Here are those comedians who took the big risks years ago and paved the way for today's crop of maverick comics. From the legendary Mel Brooks, to the irreverent Andy Kaufman, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, and Bob Newhart, experience some of comedies most legendary comedians, and their ground breaking acts!
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
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A 2000-year-old man visits an elementary school and answers questions from a teacher and students, such as "Did you have to work as a kid?," "What language did you speak?," and "What has kept you alive for all these years?"
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
Brooks shares never-before-told, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and remembrances as he charts his rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to the recipient of the National Medal of Arts. From his career with Caesar's Your Show of Shows to his many films, and his Broadway musical adaption of The Producers, he offers insight into the inspiration behind the ideas for his boundary-breaking work, and shares details about many close friendships. -- adapted...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (1.9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM.
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Young Frankenstein was made with deep respect for the craft and history of cinema, and for the power of a good schwanzstucker joke. This audiobook, written by one of the greatest comedy geniuses of all time, takes readers inside the classic film's marvelous creation story.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film celebrates the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians, Buster Keaton, whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary. Filled with stunningly restored archival Keaton films from the Cohen Film Classics library, it is directed by Peter Bogdanovich, a filmmaker and cinema historian.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : anamorphic, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mel Brooks lets the Nazis have it with both barrels in this hilarious remake of Ernst Lubitsch's classic comedy. Special features: "Making-of" featurette; Character profiles; Interviews with mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning.
11) The producers
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A legendary producer and his mild-mannered accountant face catastrophe when their play unexpectedly becomes a success.
12) Bombshell
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
13) The producers
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now he only seems to be able produce flops. Things turn around for Max when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. With this in mind, they decide to produce a musical called 'Springtime...
14) Silent movie
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A has-been movie director (Mel Brooks) intends to make a comeback by making a silent movie, and in the process, save his film studio from a takeover by a New York-based conglomerate.
15) Blazing saddles
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col., double-sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The new sheriff and his sidekick, retired gunfighter Waco Kid, protect the town of Rock Ridge from the men who want to run the railroad through the town.
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Everything seems to be changing for the better at Hotel Transylvania. Dracula's rigid monster-only hotel policy has finally relaxed, opening up its doors to human guests. But behind closed coffins, Drac is worried that his adorable half-human, half-vampire grandson, Dennis, isn't showing signs of being a vampire.
17) The automat
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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The Automat recounts the lost history of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, which served affordable food to millions of New Yorkers and Philadelphians for more than a century. Founded by Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart in 1888, it revolutionized the nation's restaurant scene with technology that captured the public's imagination like nothing else the customer put nickels into slots, and little windows opened to reveal the customer's pick, be...
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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A finely tuned parody of the old Frankenstein movies, in which Wilder returns to the old country to clear his family name. He finds his late grandfather's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. With Igor, his hunchbacked assistant, and the curvaceous Inga, Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster who only wants to be loved.
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
... shows a rather different side of Moses, the Stone Age and the Roman Empire - in which Brooks is a stand-up philosopher playing Caesar's Palace. Next, the truth is finally told about the Spanish Inquisition in a splashy production number featuring song-and-dance monks and swimming nuns ... It's history as you've never known it - completely irreverent and positively hilarious. -- Container.
20) Get Smart
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Maxwell Smart is a bungling secret agent who works for CONTROL, whose mission is to battle the forces of their evil crime nemesis known as KAOS. After the identities of CONTROL agents are compromised, Smart along with the competent and beautiful Agent 99 must do whatever it takes to thwart KAOS's latest plot for world domination.