Alongside a cornucopia of "names" including John Inman, Richard Rodgers, Peter Paul Rubens, Gilda Radner, King Henry VIII, Kathy Bates, John Wesley, A. A. Gill, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sir Harold Evans, Willy Whitelaw and - erm - Elon Musk...
...it's the one-hundredth birthday today of the peerless Mel Brooks!
Always one of my favourite film-makers way back to when I was a child, his Blazing Saddles, The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie and History of the World: Part I remain among my most cherished films, and I particularly adored his classic entourage of regular actors (Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLouise, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman among them).
He also has an unerring eye for camp - I suppose being married to Anne Bancroft for all those years must have helped!
Speaking of camp...
[and again:]
All hail, Mel Brooks (born Melvin James Kaminsky, 28th June 1926)!
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