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 the DVD commentary, Mel Brooks mentions that he wanted the introductory ' spaceship ' scene to be much longer, but changed his mind when it was pointed out that at the length he wanted, that one scene would become the entire movie.

As a teen, he watched the Mel Gibson film Mad Max ( 1979 ), and decided he wanted to become an actor.

From the early pre-production stages of Lethal Weapon, Richard Donner wanted Mel Gibson's final fight sequence to be unique, yet also to make a strong statement about the characters involved.

Mel Gussow came to see it, and due to his review in the New York Times, the director of the Theater at Riverside Church wanted Piñero to put it up at his place.

I said, ' Long ago I proposed a sequel to Mel Brooks when he said he wanted to make a sequel.

That same year, Wooden's alma mater Purdue University wanted him to return to campus and serve as an assistant to then-head coach Mel Taube until Taube's contract expired.

Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise were considered for the part that went to Will Smith, who took the role largely because he wanted to work with Gene Hackman and had previously enjoyed working with producer Jerry Bruckheimer on Bad Boys.

Director Robert Towne wanted Dale McKussic ( Mel Gibson ) to go up in smoke at the end of the film, but one of the conditions Warner Bros. set was that he must live.

He has little time for Howard and struggles to understand why Mel wanted to marry him.

I wanted to give Mel a bit of everything.

In 1990 Franco Zeffirelli, whose Shakespeare films have been described as " sensual rather than cerebral ", cast Mel Gibson — then famous for the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon movies — in the title role of his 1990 version, and Glenn Close — then famous as the psychotic " other woman " in Fatal Attraction — as Gertrude.

In the spring of 1987, the band performed the title track for the Mel Gibson film Lethal Weapon, which was composed by Michael Kamen.

( Mel Tormé album ), or the title cover version of the Herbie Mann song ( see below )

* The Passion, a working title for Mel Gibson's 2004 film The Passion of the Christ

The origin of the title was a discussion on a planned story on Mel Gibson.

Mel Ott was tied with Chuck Klein for the season home run title in 1929 and the Phillies manager told the pitcher to pitch around Ott so he wouldn't pass Klein for the title.

This definition is not necessarily accepted by neo-Confederates, though Mel Bradford, who was a key figure in the neo-Confederate movement and frequent writer for Southern Partisan from its founding, was pleased to title one of his books The Reactionary Imperative: Essays Literary and Political.

He has been known nicknamed " The Man of a Thousand Voices " ( a title also bestowed upon voice actor Mel Blanc ).

This is the third Bugs Bunny cartoon where the title dose not refer to " hare ", " rabbit ", or " bunny ". The Big Snooze features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, voiced as usual by Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan.

The film featured a song, written by the late Mel Leven, using her name as the title, sung by the dalmatians ' owner Roger ( Bill Lee ), who holds the woman in contempt.

Mel then gained higher success appearing in the movie Beat Street, with a song based on the movie's title.

At that time Mel Lastman appointed him as " Tree Advocate ", a title he gave up in 2006.

The song gave title for albums by Mel Carter ( 1965 ), Johnny Mathis ( 1977 ), and Gloria Estefan ( 1994 ), and was later referenced by U2's 1995 song " Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me ".

Griff Rhys-Jones plays the title character, a parody of real-life University Challenge presenter Bamber Gascoigne, while Jones ' partner-in-comedy Mel Smith has a cameo as the security guard.

Mel Lenny initially and then Golden Age of Comic Books producer Robert W. Farrell had the title of publisher.