Topic: Mel Brooks

Howard Rothberg, an agent and personal manager for comedy legends Mel Brooks and Larry Gelbart, died Jan. 17 in Los Angeles after a five-year...

Howard Rothberg dies at 72

Howard Rothberg, formerly an agent and personal manager for Mel Brooks and Larry Gelbart, among others, died of cancer in Los Angeles on Jan. 17...

Stars playing for toys at Suncoast

Domenick Allen toured with Liberace as a teenager, starred as the nefarious Simon Prescott on "Days of Our Lives," fronted the rock band Foreigner for a time, has mastered just about any instrument you'd care to hear (he unleashes a blistering ...

Mill Valley Film Festival highlights

0 . . . Opening night: "Albert Nobbs," starring Glenn Close as a Victorian-era cross-dresser; and "Jeff Who Lives at Home," a slacker comedy...
It may say something that three of the funniest moments in HBO's reunion of Dick Cavett and Mel Brooks come when Cavett recalls profane offstage...
I have no way of proving it, but as you have no way of disproving it and this is my column, I will just say it: Most colossal frauds start out with...
Making software and making movies have a lot in common. . "Woody makes films. I make movies." - Mel Brooks when asked about how he and Woody Allen...

CORRECTED: Comedian Charlie Callas dies at 83

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Charlie Callas, a rubber-faced stand-up comedian and Mel Brooks regular who worked on television, in films and on stage for five decades, died Thursday in a Las Vegas hospice. He was 83.Callas was a regular on TV ...

Parody

According to Aristotle ( <a href=" In ancient Greek literature , a parodia was a narrative poem imitating the style and prosody of epic s "but treating light, satirical or mock-heroic subjects" (Denith, 10). Indeed, the apparent Greek roots of the word are para- ...

Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks is an American writer, producer, actor, and humorist who grew up in Brooklyn , New York . In 1968, Brooks wrote the comedy film , The Producers , which starred Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel as two dead-beat theater producers who scheme to make ...