Comment of the Week: The other side of Mel Brooks edition
Some of the best comments here at WWTW shed light on the people who make movies.
Case in point: Opus shares a tale about Mel Brook – not the comedy maestro we’ve come to know over the past 40-odd years but the human being:
Recently I was able to buy a Brooks’ triple film pack for less than $15, “History of the World, Spaceballs and Young Frankenstein.” On the one hand I was thrilled to be able to get the films with all the DVD extras intact, on the other hand it was sad that they could be sold that way right next to triple packs of Steven Seagal and Jean Claude Van Damme.
A bit of a personal connection – many years ago the son of a friend was cast in a Brook’s film that ultimately was never made. The young man wasn’t an actor and it would have been his first film. He was extremely fat which was one of the main reasons he was cast. His character apparently was going to be treated very badly, the butt of some bad fat jokes. I was impressed that Brooks personally called him a number of times to make sure he knew what he was getting into and to try to make sure he wouldn’t be hurt by it.
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Comment of the Week: The other side of Mel Brooks edition
Some of the best comments here at WWTW shed light on the people who make movies.
Case in point: Opus shares a tale about Mel Brook – not the comedy maestro we’ve come to know over the past 40-odd years but the human being:
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