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

Le Petomane ( Mel Brooks ) appoint a new sheriff.

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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 ".

In 1931, when the show debuted, radio had yet to establish coast-to-coast networks so two separate casts performed — one in San Francisco starring Floy Margaret Hughes and the other in Chicago starring Shirley Bell as Annie, Stanley Andrews as " Daddy ", and Allan Baruck ( and later Mel Tormé ) as Joe Corntassel.

Larry David is hired by Mel Brooks as a surefire way of ruining the play and ending its run.

Music and poetry were highlights of the festival, which featured performers Leon Rausch, Tommy Allsup and the Texas Playboys ; Mel Tillis and the Statesiders ; Larry Gatlin ; Billy Mata, and Liz Talley.

Larry has worked with Mel Blanc and June Foray at Warner Bros .- Seven Arts.

Mount Hood's program was headed by Larry McVey, whose band had come to be a proving ground and regular stop for Stan Kenton and Mel Tormé when they were looking for new players.

* Voices: Mel Blanc, June Foray, Arthur Q. Bryan, Daws Butler, Bea Benaderet, Paul Frees, Marvin Miller, Hal Smith, Larry Storch, Barbara Cameron, Julie Bennett, Sara Berner, Robert C. Bruce II, Paul Julian, Dick Beals, Stan Freberg

* Produced by: Larry Shaw, Mel Stuart

Influential contemporary artists include Larry D. Alexander, Laylah Ali, Amalia Amaki, Emma Amos, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dawoud Bey, Camille Billops, Mark Bradford, Edward Clark, Willie Cole, Robert Colescott, Louis Delsarte, David C. Driskell, Leonardo Drew, Mel Edwards, Ricardo Francis, Charles Gaines, Ellen Gallagher, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Jerry Harris, Richard Hunt, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Katie S. Mallory, M. Scott Johnson, Rashid Johnson, Joe Lewis, Glenn Ligon, James Little, Al Loving, Kerry James Marshall, Eugene J. Martin, Richard Mayhew, Sam Middleton, Howard McCalebb, Charles McGill, Thaddeus Mosley, Sana Musasama, Senga Nengudi, Joe Overstreet, Martin Puryear, Adrian Piper, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Gale Fulton Ross, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, John T. Scott, Joyce Scott, Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Renee Stout, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Stanley Whitney, William T. Williams, John Wilson, Fred Wilson, Richard Yarde, and Purvis Young, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, Barkley Hendricks, Jeff Sonhouse, William Walker, Ellsworth Ausby, Che Baraka, Emmett Wigglesworth, Otto Neals, Dinga McCannon, Terry Dixon ( artist ), and many others.

" His repertoire also included impressions of celebrities and well-known figures, including Al Gore, Bob Barker, John Kerry, Dr. Phil, Bill O ' Reilly, Maury Povich, Chris Martin, Steve Jobs, Mel Gibson, Chris Hansen, Roy Horn, Ozzy Osbourne, John Ramsey, Freddie Prinze, Jr., J. K. Simmons ( as Mac McGuff, Juno's father ), William Petersen ( as Gil Grissom ), Jack Coleman ( as Noah Bennet ), Hugh Laurie ( as Gregory House ), Hugh Beaumont ( as Ward Cleaver ), Sarah Jessica Parker ( as Carrie Bradshaw ), Dr. Drew, Adam Sandler, Howie Mandel, Dick Cheney, Clint Eastwood, Gray Davis, Simon Cowell, JC Chasez, Bruce Jenner, Michael Richards, Chris Burke, Charlie Sheen ( as Charlie Harper ( Two and a Half Men )), David Schwimmer ( as Ross Geller ), Jeff Probst, Tim Gunn ( Project Runway ), Howard K. Stern, Tommy Lee, Bob Goen, Criss Angel, Jeff Foxworthy, Saddam Hussein, Matthew Good, Daniel Powter, Larry David, Barry Gibb, Eddie Vedder, and Brad Garrett.

Though the West Indies won the match, a delivery from Ashantha de Mel reared and hit Richardson in the face ; with Larry Gomes, he was one of two West Indian batsmen to retire hurt during the game.

* Let's Get Acquainted with Jazz ( For People Who Hate Jazz ) with Barney Kessel, Harold Land, Mel Lewis, Red mitchell, Pete Candoli, Larry Bunker, 1958

* Upper Classmen with Larry Bunker, Pete Candoli, Barney Kessel, Harold Land, Mel Lewis, Red Mithchell, 1959

Dungy lead the team with 6 interceptions, while the rest of the secondary, defensive backs Mel Blount, Donnie Shell, and Ron Johnson, combined for 11.

He returned to Shakespeare with Hamlet, casting the then – action hero Mel Gibson in the lead role.

The climax of Weir's early career was the $ 6 million multi-national production The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1983 ), again starring Mel Gibson, playing opposite top Hollywood female lead Sigourney Weaver in a story about journalistic loyalty, idealism, love and ambition in the turmoil of Sukarno's Indonesia of 1965.

Greil Marcus, in a critical analysis of the song's history, has written that Price's was an enthusiastic hard rock version with a screaming saxophone. In all of these early recordings of Lloyd Price, Merritt Mel Dalton was the lead Sax Man on the recordings of " Personality, Stagger Lee, I'm gonna get married etc ..," Merritt, was in the traveling band as well and appeared on the Ed Sullivan show with Lloyd Price .< ref >

Although David maintains an office, he leads a semiretired life in the series, and is rarely shown working regularly, other than in season four, which centered on his being cast as the lead in the Mel Brooks musical The Producers, and in season seven, writing a Seinfeld reunion show.

* Mel Galley – guitars, lead vocals

On the 18 March 1983 episode of SCTV in the Mel's Rock Pile segment, Mel Slirrup ( Eugene Levy ) has a tribute to punk rock featuring a number by the band The Queenhaters — Martin Short ( lead singer ), Andrea Martin ( lead guitarist / back-up vocals ), Eugene Levy ( secondary guitarist ), Joe Flaherty ( bass ), and John Candy ( drummer )— performing " I Hate The Bloody Queen ", a sound-alike song that almost matches the original it is spoofing, with references to the Falklands War (" I'd like to drown the Queen / Off the coast of Argentine / Throw her off a battleship / With her Falkland war machine!

High Anxiety is a 1977 comedy film produced and directed by Mel Brooks, who also plays the lead.

At 18, he joined Lionel Hampton's big band before joining the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra as lead trumpet.

The Giants ' star slugger, Mel Ott, was tied with Klein for the lead with 42.

His 2. 65 ERA was a major improvement from his 20-win season, but he went 16-18, tying for the AL lead in losses with Yankee Mel Stottlemyre.

In 1964, the New York Yankees offered Scully the opportunity to succeed Mel Allen as its lead play-by-play announcer.

Little was widely known for his lead role as Sheriff Bart in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles.

The label did not feature Cooke, but rather featured all of Cooke's artists such as the latter-day Soul Stirrers with Jimmie Outler and Johnnie Taylor singing lead, The Valentinos ( including Bobby Womack ), Billy Preston, Mel Carter, The Simms Twins, Johnnie Morisette, L. C.

During the 2000s, Smith appeared in the Mel Gibson-led The Patriot ( 2000 ), played outlaw Jim Younger in the western American Outlaws ( 2001 ), was featured in the short-lived 2001 CBS drama series Kate Brasher, and was cast in a lead role on The WB Television Network show, Everwood, which became a success and ran from 2002 until June 2006.

In 1966 in New York, he teamed up with Thad Jones to lead the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra.

Bart also originated the lead role of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in the musical adaptation of Mel Brooks ' Young Frankenstein, which opened on Broadway in November 2007, following a run in Seattle.

He worked for the Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, and Cincinnati Reds before landing in New York City with the New York Yankees and New York Giants, who during much of the 1940s only broadcast home games and shared the same radio team — lead announcer Mel Allen and No. 2 man Hodges.

Melle Mel (; born Melvin Glover, May 15, 1961 ), also known as Grandmaster Melle Mel, is an American hip-hop musician — one of the pioneers of old school hip hop as lead rapper and main songwriter for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

* Mel Kiper-Especially during the lead up to the NFL Draft.

The band includes former King Crimson members Michael Giles ( drums and percussion ), Peter Giles ( bass ), McDonald ( sax, flute, keyboards ), Mel Collins ( alto / tenor sax, flute, keyboards ) and also Jakko Jakszyk from Level 42 on guitar and lead vocals.

Mark Lee ( born 1958 ) is an Australian actor and director whose most prominent role was the lead in the film Gallipoli ( 1981 ), alongside Mel Gibson.