Mel Brooks

Talking Pictures

TCM and Max

Tv & Film

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Host Ben Mankiewicz hangs out with his friend, 97-year-old legend Mel Brooks (The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) in this often hilarious and sometimes poignant episode. Mel reminisces about Gene Wilder, David Lynch, his wife Anne Bancroft, and best friend Carl Reiner. He also recounts a tremendously funny dinner with Alfred Hitchcock. Mel Brooks has spent a lifetime watching and making movies so you don’t want to miss his answers to our Super 8 questionnaire. Films Mentioned: Blazing Saddles* Young Frankenstein The Producers High Anxiety Psycho Vertigo The Elephant Man Eraserhead* Frankenstein (1931) Casablanca* Swing Time Top Hat Broadway Melody of 1940 Ninotchka The Gods Must Be Crazy It Happened One Night Spaceballs* Random Harvest Alexander’s Ragtime Band *Available on Max as of 2/13 (Availability of titles subject to change) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.8	It's very difficult to be so alone when I'm such a together person.
1:06.7	And now, you know, most of the time I'm alone.
1:11.3	Hi there. I'm Ben Mankiewicz.
1:13.8	Before the pandemic, I used to have lunch once a week with Mel Brooks.
1:19.5	Every Friday, a bunch of Mel's old friends got together to have a nash and tell stories.
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