With the movie "Zombieland" sitting on top at the box office, fans of the walking dead got another grisly, ghoulish treat on Wednesday.
Dom DeLuise, who spiced up such movies as "Blazing Saddles," "Silent Movie" and "The Cannonball Run" with his manic delivery and roly-poly persona, has died, his son's publicist said.
The actor, best known for his flamboyant director role in Blazing Saddles, was 75
Forty-three years ago, Mel Brooks and Buck Henry hatched a show about a not-so-smart intelligence agent constantly confounded by his own incompetence.
How to prep a humorous old-fangled TV show for the modern big screen? Gunk it up with action sequences. So not funny
Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to The Carol Burnett Show and played a conniving politician to hilarious effect in Blazing Saddles, died Thursday
Handed down since Moses was kvetching about having to cross the desert in his bare feet, Jewish humor emanated from Eastern Europe where the Hebrews overcame some seriously hellacious circumstances on the way to the Promised Land. "Laughter through tears," they called it.
Mel Brooks's follow-up to The Producers doesn't have the same spark
Producer Mel Brooks is charging a record high of $450 a seat for a weekend performance of his new Broadway musical, 'Young Frankenstein,' according to a newspaper report.
It's impossible to imagine any movie getting as much advance publicity as Mel Brooks' "The Producers."
With the movie "Zombieland" sitting on top at the box office, fans of the walking dead got another grisly, ghoulish treat on Wednesday.
Dom DeLuise, who spiced up such movies as "Blazing Saddles," "Silent Movie" and "The Cannonball Run" with his manic delivery and roly-poly persona, has died, his son's publicist said.
The actor, best known for his flamboyant director role in Blazing Saddles, was 75
Forty-three years ago, Mel Brooks and Buck Henry hatched a show about a not-so-smart intelligence agent constantly confounded by his own incompetence.
How to prep a humorous old-fangled TV show for the modern big screen? Gunk it up with action sequences. So not funny
Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to The Carol Burnett Show and played a conniving politician to hilarious effect in Blazing Saddles, died Thursday
Handed down since Moses was kvetching about having to cross the desert in his bare feet, Jewish humor emanated from Eastern Europe where the Hebrews overcame some seriously hellacious circumstances on the way to the Promised Land. "Laughter through tears," they called it.
Mel Brooks's follow-up to The Producers doesn't have the same spark
Producer Mel Brooks is charging a record high of $450 a seat for a weekend performance of his new Broadway musical, 'Young Frankenstein,' according to a newspaper report.
It's impossible to imagine any movie getting as much advance publicity as Mel Brooks' "The Producers."
Actress Anne Bancroft, who seduced Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate" and won Oscar and Tony awards for playing Helen Keller's teacher in "The Miracle Worker," has died of cancer at age 73, her agent said Tuesday.
It's impossible not to feel deep affection for Gene Wilder, the frizzy-haired Mel Brooks regular, Oscar nominee and Mr. Gilda Radner: His sui generis screen persona fused volatility and adorability into a new isotope of comic acting.
Brenda Strong, who plays the deceased Mary Alice Young on ABC's "Desperate Housewives," has a long history of playing dead.
The Broadway sensation "The Producers" made a big splash in its transatlantic debut on Tuesday in London's West End.
A generation of pandering film reviewers has rendered the phrase "laugh-out-loud funny" almost meaningless through repetition. But--and I'm not afraid to repeat this--America (The Book) (Warner, $2...
In the end, it comes down to the obvious fact that Cloris Leachman loves being in front of a crowd.
Rapper-actor Ice Cube has returned to the barbershop and he expects some more bruising.
Some wore their lucky shirts. Others kept up a tradition of eating peanuts during the nail-biting moments of a space mission.
Well, you can say one thing about Rosie O'Donnell: She puts her money where her mouth is. She footed the entire $10 million bill for her recently opened Broadway musical Taboo and voiced her intent...
The makers of a made-for-TV movie based on Barbarians at the Gate, 1990's best-seller by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar on the RJR Nabisco takeover battle, have one key role to fill before filming ...
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