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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks - Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks At The Cannes Film Festival 1962

Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner
Mar 20 1922 -
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Mel Brooks
Melvin Kaminsky
Jun 28 1926 -


Carl Reiner is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award during this career. He has the distinction of being the only person to appear on The Tonight Show with each of its five hosts. ~Source: Wikipedia

Mel Brooks is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. He began his career as a stand-up comic and as a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows. He became well known as part of the comedy duo with Carl Reiner, The 2000 Year Old Man. In middle age he became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with many of his films being among the top ten money makers of the year that they were released. His most well known films include The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World, Part I and Spaceballs. In his later years he had a smash hit on Broadway with the musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers. He was married to the late actress Anne Bancroft.
Brooks is a member of the short list of entertainers with the distinction of having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony award. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of all-time: Blazing Saddles at number 6, The Producers at number 11, and Young Frankenstein at number 13. ~Source Wikipedia


01 The Cannes Film Festival, Adolph Hartler, Frederico Fettucini, Tippy Skittles
02 Dr. Felix Wheird
03 2000 And Two Year Old Man
04 The L.M.N.O.P. Ad Agency





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