Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks.

Le Petomane ( Mel Brooks ) appoint a new sheriff.

Category: Films directed by Mel Brooks

Other former Baltimore announcers include Josh Lewin ( currently with New York Mets ), Bill O ' Donnell, Tom Marr, Scott Garceau, Mel Proctor, Michael Reghi, former major league catcher Buck Martinez, and former Oriole players including Brooks Robinson, pitcher Mike Flanagan and outfielder John Lowenstein.

Among the leading lights in comedy films of the next decade were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks.

* High Anxiety, a film by Mel Brooks

Returning to the stage in 2003, Alexander was cast in a successful run, opposite Martin Short, in the Los Angeles production of Mel Brooks ' The Producers.

) Mel Brooks directed a Keystone Cops-type car chase in his comedy film Silent Movie.

In the 1981 film History of the World, Part I, Moses is portrayed by Mel Brooks.

Several filmmakers have paid homage to the comedies of the silent era, including Jacques Tati with his Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot ( 1953 ) and Mel Brooks with Silent Movie ( 1976 ).

* June 28 – Mel Brooks, American entertainer ( The Producers )

In the 1950s, his most important work in television involved writing for Red Buttons, Sid Caesar on Caesar's Hour, in Celeste Holm's Honestly, Celeste !, as well as with writers Mel Tolkin, Michael Stewart, Selma Diamond, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and ( on two Caesar specials ) Woody Allen.

Slapstick continues to maintain a presence in modern comedy that draws upon its lineage, running in film from Buster Keaton and Louis de Funès to Mel Brooks to the Jackass movies to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber & Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson.

In 1967, Mike Nichols cast Hoffman in The Graduate, a role which prevented him from appearing in the acclaimed Mel Brooks film, The Producers, as Franz Liebkind.

Also, in one scene from Mel Brooks ' Spaceballs, Princess Vespa also appears to have the hairstyle, but reveals that she is actually wearing a large pair of headphones.

Mel Brooks played a comic version of Louis XVI in The History of the World Part 1, portraying him as a libertine who has such a distaste for the peasantry he uses them as targets in skeet shooting.

He appeared in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes ' Smarter Brother and Mel Brooks ' Silent Movie, as well as directing and starring in The Last Remake of Beau Geste.

On the DVD commentary of Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks cites factors that may have contributed to Feldman's death: thumb " He smoked sometimes six packs of cigarettes daily, drank copious amounts of black coffee, and ate a diet rich in eggs and dairy products ".

Even a leading role in a Mel Brooks comic horror parody, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, failed to generate much box office excitement, although it did gain somewhat of a following on its later release to video.

The standard takes its name from the fictional town Rock Ridge in Mel Brooks ' film Blazing Saddles.

With this award, she became one of only 12 other entertainers – in a list that includes Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand and Mel Brooks among others – to win an Emmy, Grammy, Tony Award and Academy Award.

Mel Brooks ' 1974 film Blazing Saddles, set in the Wild West in 1874, contains many blatant anachronisms from the 1970s, including a stylish Gucci costume for the sheriff, an automobile, a scene at Grauman's Chinese Theater, and frequent references to Hedy Lamarr ( 1914 – 2000 ).

The term lent itself to several " in " jokes: in Mel Brooks ' film High Anxiety, which parodies many Hitchcock films, a minor plot point is advanced by a mysterious phone call from a " Mr. MacGuffin ".

The truth is, however, that when Mel Chandler first reported to the regiment the only steed he had ever ridden was a swivel chair and the only weapon he had ever wielded was a pencil.

That saved Mel Chandler.

But still Mel Chandler was not completely convinced that men would really die for a four-syllable word, `` Garryowen ''.

And so Mel Chandler got the spirit of Garryowen.

So Mel Chandler set out to sell him on the spirit of Garryowen, just as he himself had been sold a short time before.

One night on the Naktong River, Mel Chandler called on that fabled esprit de corps.

Then Mel Chandler started up the hill.

So filled was Mel Chandler with the spirit of Garryowen that after Korea was over, he took on the job of writing the complete history of the regiment.

* 1913 – Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1917 – Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, director, and producer ( d. 2008 )

He liked to surround himself with jazz musicians and often performed with a horn section drawn from a pool that included, among others, saxophone players Art Themen, Mel Collins, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Lol Coxhill, Dick Morrissey, John Surman and trombonist Mike Zwerin.

In 1973, he formed another group, Snape, with Boz Burrell, Mel Collins, and Ian Wallace, who were previously together in King Crimson.

Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama film directed by and starring Mel Gibson.

" Butch " Voris, Flight Leader ; Lt. Maurice " Wick " Wickendoll, Right Wing ; Lt. Mel Cassidy, Left Wing.

Voris selected three fellow instructors to join him ( Lt. Maurice " Wick " Wickendoll, Lt. Mel Cassidy, and Lt. Cmdr.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

Brooks Adams was consistent in his admonishments to historians about the necessary tools or insights they needed to possess.

What evidence is available would seem to indicate that Brooks, unlike his older brother Henry, had most of the methodological vices usually found in the amateur.

What is exposited by this observation is not the inherent prejudices of Englishmen but the Anglophobia of Brooks Adams.

Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

In summary, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was order and that the order so discovered was as much subject to historical laws as the forces of nature.

Brooks Adams considered religion as an extremely significant manifestation of man's fear of the unknown.

In The Law Of Civilization And Decay Brooks Adams traced this evolution, always pointing to the fact that although the forms became more rational, the substance remained unchanged.

Brooks Robinson is great, and it is conceivable that he'll do even better in 1961 than he did in 1960.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

Deck Cadet James L. Cahill and Seaman Walter Brooks had been the first to leave.

Three were doubles, Brooks Robinson getting a pair and Marv Breeding one.

`` Take a ride on this one '', Brooks Robinson greeted Hansen as the Bird third sacker grabbed a bat, headed for the plate and bounced a third-inning two-run double off the left-centerfield wall tonight.

Monte Brooks, 67, theatrical producer and band leader, collapsed and died Thursday in a Lloyd Center restaurant.

Mr. Brooks was born in New York, and came to Portland in 1920.

Journalist Noah Brooks reported, " No man ever before made such an impression on his first appeal to a New York audience.

After a comparison of the substances half-lives determined by Debierne, Hariett Brooks in 1904, and Otto Hahn and Otto Sackur in 1905, Debierne's chosen name for the new element was retained because it had seniority.

Belmont, California: Wadsworth & Brooks.

On 2 September a more celebrated mock obituary, written by Reginald Brooks under the pseudonym " Bloobs ", appeared in The Sporting Times.

* 1928 – Norman Brooks, Canadian singer ( d. 2006 )

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

" It is clear ," Brooks concludes, " that the metropolitan church Canterbury must have been quite unable to provide any effective training in the scriptures or in Christian worship.

* African American Lives, edited by Henry L. Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Oxford University Press, 2004 — more than 600 biographies.

It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.