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 ".

As a result of its success, all but two of Mel Brooks movies in Swedish have been given similar titles: " Springtime For Mother-In-Law " ( The Twelve Chairs ); " Springtime For The Sheriff " ( Blazing Saddles ); " Springtime For Frankenstein " ( Young Frankenstein ); " Springtime For The Silent Movies " ( Silent Movie ); " Springtime For The Lunatics " ( High Anxiety ); " Springtime For World History " ( History of the World, Part I ); " Springtime For Space " ( Spaceballs ); and " Springtime For The Slum " ( Life Stinks ).

* Young Man on Fire: The Story of Torrey Johnson and Youth for Christ, by Mel Larson.

Mel Brooks ( whose Young Frankenstein ran for 14 months there ) made a different complaint about the theatre's acoustics, stating that its size also makes it difficult for performers to hear the laughter of the audience.

* Forever Young ( 1992 film ), a film starring Mel Gibson and Elijah Wood

He followed that up with Regarding Henry, starring Harrison Ford, and Forever Young, starring Mel Gibson.

A close succession of Kahn comedies — Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Young Frankenstein ( 1974 ), and High Anxiety ( 1977 ) — were all directed by Mel Brooks, who many Hollywood observers claimed was able to bring out the best of Kahn's comic talents.

Peter Lawrence Boyle ( October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006 ) was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks ' film spoof Young Frankenstein ( 1974 ).

In Mel Brooks's comedy Young Frankenstein, Doctor Frankenstein sends his assistant, Igor, to retrieve the brain of Hans Delbrück for transplant into Frankenstein's monster.

She also appeared in three Mel Brooks films, including Young Frankenstein.

Devane appeared in the films McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ) with Julie Christie and Warren Beatty ; Lady Liberty ( 1971 ) with Sophia Loren ; Family Plot ( 1976 ) directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; Marathon Man ( 1976 ) with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier ; Rolling Thunder ( 1977 ) with Tommy Lee Jones ; Red Alert ( 1977 ) with Ralph Waite, based on a novel by Harold R. " Hal " King ; The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training ( 1977 ) with Jackie Earle Haley ; Yanks ( 1979 ) with Richard Gere ; Testament ( 1983 ) with Jane Alexander ; Timestalkers ( 1987 ) with Lauren Hutton and Klaus Kinski ; Forgotten Sins ( 1996 ) with John Shea ; Exception to the Rule ( 1997 ), with Kim Cattrall and Sean Young ; Payback ( 1999 ) with Mel Gibson ; Hollow Man ( 2000 ), with Elisabeth Shue and Kevin Bacon ; and Space Cowboys ( 2000 ) with Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, and Donald Sutherland.

*" Welcome to Transylvania " and " Transylvania Mania " are songs in the Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein.

* In Mel Brooks ' film Young Frankenstein, Fredrick Frankenstein and Igor dig up a body to attempt to bring it back to life.

Although they are being selective about what they record, Decca Broadway plans to continue making cast albums, including the Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein and Andrew Lippa's The Addams Family: A New Musical.

* In a scene deleted from Mel Brooks's film Young Frankenstein, the Monster encounters a cowardly English highwayman somewhat inexplicably named Jack Sprat.

Game of Death () is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts action crime thriller film co-written ( under the pseudonym Jan Spears with Raymond Chow ) and directed by Robert Clouse and starring Bruce Lee, Kim Tai-jong, Yuen Biao, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Colleen Camp, Robert Wall, Hugh O ' Brian, Dan Inosanto, Mel Novak, Sammo Hung, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Han-Jae Ji and Casanova Wong.

The movie features a number of actors who have featured in Mel Brooks films-Madeline Kahn ( Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, History of the World Part I ), Kenneth Mars ( The Producers, Young Frankenstein ), Liam Dunn ( Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie ), and John Hillerman ( Blazing Saddles ).

Foster starred in Mel Brooks ' musical adaptation of his film Young Frankenstein as the German yodeling fraulein Inga from October 2007 to July 2008.

The Homeless World Cup organization was founded in 2001 by Mel Young and Harald Schmied while searching for an international language to unite homeless people around the world.

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.

Also, Mel Brooks's The Producers and Young Frankenstein are based on his hit films.

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.

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.

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

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

The rabbinical school of the Academy for Jewish Religion in California is led by Conservative rabbi Mel Gottlieb.

Anderson is a comedy sketch writer who has written for Frankie Howerd, Not the Nine O ' Clock News, and Griff Rhys Jones / Mel Smith.

In 2006, Leary and Lenny Clarke appeared on television during a Red Sox telecast and, upon realizing that Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis is Jewish, delivered a criticism of Mel Gibson's antisemitic comments .< ref >

The Gallipoli Campaign is the subject of the 1981 movie Gallipoli directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson.

The stamp is one of a block of four honoring " baseball sluggers ", the others being Mickey Mantle, Mel Ott, and Roy Campanella.

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

Melvin Kenneth " Mel " Smith ( born 3 December 1952 ) is an English comedian, writer, film director, producer and actor.

It is reflected in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian, Jean-Claude La Marre's Color of the Cross and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life.

Melle Mel is cited as an Old School MC who epitomizes the Old School flow – Kool Moe Dee says, “ from 1970 to 1978 we rhymed one way Melle Mel, in 1978, gave us the new cadence we would use from 1978 to 1986 ... he ’ s the first emcee to explode in a new rhyme cadence, and change the way every emcee rhymed forever.

Rakim, Biggie, and Eminem have flipped the flow, but Melle Mel ’ s downbeat on the two, four, kick to snare cadence is still the rhyme foundation all emcees are building on ".

However, he is also known for lies and self-promotion, and criticized on these grounds — Martin Gardner's assessment continues " but also obviously a hustler ", Canadian puzzler Mel Stover called Loyd " an old reprobate ", and Matthew Costello calls him both " puzzledom's greatest celebrity ... popularizer, genius ," but also " huckster ... and fast-talking snake oil salesman.

Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ ( 2004 ) included an episode of Veronica wiping Jesus ' face, although she is not referred to by name in the film ( she is credited in the film as " Seraphia ").

A well-known account is presented in the film Braveheart, directed by and starring Mel Gibson, written by Randall Wallace, and filmed in both Scotland and Ireland.

* Rodeo's first side-delivery bucking chute is designed and made by the Bascom boys ( Raymond, Mel, Earl ) and their father John W. Bascom at Welling, Alberta Canada.

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.

One notable exception is the song " The Message ", which was written by Melle Mel for his hip hop group, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five.

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 Patriot is a 2000 American historical war film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Robert Rodat, and starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, and Heath Ledger.

During the American Revolution in 1776, Benjamin Martin ( Mel Gibson ), a veteran of the French and Indian War and widower with seven children, is called to Charleston to vote in the South Carolina General Assembly on a levy supporting the Continental Army.

The film's screenwriter, Robert Rodat, said of Mel Gibson's character: " Benjamin Martin is a composite character made up of Thomas Sumter, Daniel Morgan, Andrew Pickens, and Francis Marion, and a few bits and pieces from a number of other characters ".