“He said talk to God like you talk to a friend. Nachman founded the Breslov Hasidic movement, and Brooks, a voracious reader, says he studied and was moved by his philosophical works. Spending just $2 for a High Holy Day ticket was considered “frivolous.”īrooks recalled how, growing up, “I was never really interested in the religious aspect of being a Jew. “We lived on the fifth floor in the back of a tenement. The jelly jar was for tea, and yahrzeit glasses were for coffee.”īrooks’ father died when Mel was just two years old, leaving his mother with four young boys.
“It’s like a big deal, second only to the Oscars,” he said of the AFI honor before quickly moving on to discuss his remembrances of things past: his mother and her friends drinking coffee from yahrzeit glasses “because coffee was always in a yahrzeit glass, never in a cup - ever. Still, his conversation with the Forward seemed less an opportunity to promote than to reminisce. Less than three weeks later, on June 6, the American Film Institute will honor Brooks with its Lifetime Achievement Award. On May 20, the Public Broadcasting Service will premiere “Mel Brooks: Make a Noise,” an extraordinary American Masters special that traces his remarkable career. But despite the accolades, the fame and the riches, he still seems to be that little boy from Brooklyn, just as curious about you as you are about him. “You got all the letters right,” he said, and laughed when I ask for extra credit for getting them in the proper order: “That’s funny.”īrooks, 86, is one of only 11 people to have won the grand slam of show business - an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. Then he wondered aloud how I spell my name, and he graded my response. Mel Brooks talks to Conan O'Brien about his Jewish rootsġ987: Comedian dies onstage, audience doesn't get it He voiced Vlad Dracula in Hotel Transylvania 2 and Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation.Ironically, it was Mel Brooks who asked the first question: “So, how long have you been working for the Jewish Daily Forward?”įrom Haifa suburb street punk to IDF combat soldier to modern dancer Peabody & Sherman, the 2019 Disney and Pixar Toy Story 4 and the 2017 film Leap!. A couple of his best known films include Young Frankenstein and The Producers. He also voiced Bigweld the Master Inventor in the 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios animated film Robots from 2005, Albert Einstein in the 2014 Dreamworks Animation film Mr. In the 1970's Mel Brooks became one of the most successful film directors of the decade. He became well known as part of the comedy duo with Carl Reiner in the comedy skit, The 2000 Year Old Man. He began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show, Your Show of Shows. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Mel Brooks (Born June 28, 1926) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian and composer best know for his films and parodies.
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