Blazing Saddles

  • Young Mel-enstein: How Brooks Broke Into Show Biz

    When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences stages its tribute to Mel Brooks on Friday, it will be honoring one of only 12 people to have won all four major show business awards — Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy. Brooks has repeatedly reinvented his career, going from TV sketch writer to half of…

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    Mel Brooks (to Eric Estrin)

  • Young Mel-enstein: How Brooks Crashed Showbiz

    “I walk down to the floodlights, and I say to the audience, ‘Hey, this is my first job as an actor, I’m really only 14.’

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    Mel Brooks (to Eric Estrin)
    Young Mel-enstein: How Brooks Crashed Showbiz