https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHOmBV4js_Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkgbCECWp-s In case you haven’t heard, yesterday was comic legend Mel Brooks’ one-hundred birthday. I’ve been honored to know Mel for the past dozen years and shared a number of delightful Chinese dinners with him and a group of other friends usually at ‘The Manderette’, a now defunct West Hollywood
This week began for me with a low-grade depression which I slogged out of by watching the Marx Brothers famous mirror scene in ‘Duck Soup’. (I shared it with you. Watch it again!) Yesterday, on the mend, Bugs Bunny in ‘Falling Hare’ continued to raise my spirits. Finally today I
It’s a gloomy day in the Connecticut countryside and I’ve been stuck in a low-grade depression for most of it. (It may not help that for some reason I’ve spent much of the day watching YouTube videos of fatal airplane crashes). How to get oneself out of these funks? I
Did you know that Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s perfect screenplay for ‘The Apartment’ was written on the fly while the film was being shot? Can this actually be true? According to Shirley MacLaine, in the above very interesting doc about the making of the film, Wilder started filming with