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Mel Brooks chimes in on 'The Interview' debacle | EW.com  Dec 22, 2014 ... But Brooks had the right idea long ago: It's been one of my lifelong jobsto make the world laugh at Adolf Hitler, he told 60 Minutes in 2001.
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On two - Houston Chronicle  Apr 19, 2001 ... Published 5:30 am, Thursday, April 19, 2001 ... HE SAID. "If you stand on a soapbox and you match him with rhetoric, you're just as bad as he is. ... Mel Brooks, explaining on 60 Minutes that his hatred of Hitler seeded the...
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"Ira Regis: Comedic Inflections of Royal Rage in Jewish Court Tales ...  Jan 1, 2013 ... Mel Brooks, from an interview on 60 Minutes ... Calchas, "Bird-Reader Supreme," says to Achilles: "You will support me and protect me in word and deed. ... is so incensed that he threatens the river itself, promising that "he would weaken ...... of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge, Mass., 2001).
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Protesters complain about Mel Brooks making fun of Hitler - Patheos  Jul 28, 2015 ... Olney Theatre's production of Mel Brooks's 2001 musical The Producers only has three more performances, but it's not ... He told Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes: ... And I smashed him in the head with my mess kit, he says.
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Mel Brooks On Anti-Semitism - CBS News  Mel Brooks is obsessed with his ethnicity. But there's a good reason, as he explains to Mike Wallace Sunday on 60 Minutes. Brooks, who says it demonstrates...
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Wigand: 60 Minutes' Most Famous Whistleblower - Videos - CBS News  Feb 3, 2016 ... February 3, 2016, 12:43 PM | The Mike Wallace interview that inspired Hollywood's "The Insider" and changed Big Tobacco forever...
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60 Minutes - Wikipedia  60 Minutes is an American newsmagazine television program broadcast on the CBS television .... 60 Minutes struggled under that stigma during its first three years. ... (he would return to CBS and 60 Minutes in 1978), Morley Safer joined the ... and during the 197071 season alone 60 Minutes reported on cluster bombs, the...
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The Early On-Air Appearances of 13 Late-Night Talk Show Hosts ...  Sep 6, 2015 ... The current Late Late Show host wrote about his television debut in ... stand-up career throughout the 1980s before he started his second ... Carson became the third permanent host of The Tonight Show in 1962, 14 years after he made his on-screen debut as a milkman in Omaha's WOW-TV special The...
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The in-Laws - People  Jul 5, 1999 ... Mike Myers If you ask Linda Richman, Austin Powers certainly ... his impersonations of her on his Saturday Night Live "Coffee Talk" sketches. ... Life with fatherand with mother-in-law Annie Marie, 62, a nurse ... LaDonna's parents show up in a lot of my characters, says .... I thought he was a character.
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PressReader - The Times-Tribune: 2016-05-20 - '60 Minutes ...  May 20, 2016 ... '60 Minutes' mainstay Safer dies at 84 ... Mr. Safer joined the program, created by Don Hewitt, in 1970, two years after its inception ... Then, as CBS London bureau chief, he covered a war in the Middle East, the Soviet ... worked for Reuters in London before joining the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in 1955.
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J! Archive - Show #1266, aired 1990-02-19  3 of his many nicknames were "Buffoon", "Tycoon" & "Illinois Baboon" ... Facts About the Presidents lists "corporate spokesman" as one of his former occupations...
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60 Minutes - Wikipedia  60 Minutes is an American newsmagazine television program broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt, who chose to set it apart from other news programs by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation. .... 60 Minutes is also simulcast on several CBS Radio stations ( such as KYW in...
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J! Archive - Show #3812, aired 2001-03-13  From a famous family, he was an expert on Latin America ... Before a Swede puts on his skor, these, he puts on his sockor...
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Andy Rooney dead at 92 - CBS News  Nov 5, 2011 ... Andy Rooney, the "60 Minutes" commentator known to generations for ... But it is his television role as the inquisitive and cranky commentator...
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Pearls Before Swine  An Evening with Orson Welles. (Sydney ...  Oct 1, 2012 ... With a little help from his friends (Sarah Blackstone as Director, Neil ... Everybody denies I am a genius  but nobody ever called me one! ... innovative uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unusual camera ... Orson Welles simply said he met Hitler once and found him remarkably devoid of any personality.
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Castro's Marathon Speech - ABC News  The bearded Communist leader joked, gesticulated and lectured on subjects that ranged from ... Legendary for his lengthy speeches, Castro chided the United Nations for ... It was almost as long as the 4 hours and 29 minutes he spoke at the United Nations in September 1960, the longest continuous speech ever given in...
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World Still Laughs With Will Humorist's Fans Keep Coming to ...  Aug 11, 1985 ... "I didn't know he was famous. I like to never got that ... Eventually, Rogers' lariat-twirling act in cowboy garb made him a Ziegfield Follies favorite. His comic routines led to ... Inside the memorial, the base of a bronze statue of Rogers bears his best-known saying: "I never met a man I didn't like." It is Rogers'...
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60 Minutes - Wikipedia  60 Minutes is an American newsmagazine television program broadcast on the CBS television .... By 1976, 60 Minutes became the top-rated program on Sunday nights in the U.S. By 1979, it had achieved the #1 spot among all ..... 60 Minutes was a top ten show for 23 seasons in a row (19772000), an unsurpassed record.
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Obituaries | Lou Jacobs; Master Circus Clown For 60 Years ...  Sep 15, 1992 ... Lou Jacobs; Master Circus Clown For 60 Years, Depicted On Stamp. AP ... Mr. Jacobs joined Ringling Bros. in 1925 and performed with the circus, dubbed "The Greatest Show on Earth," until his retirement in 1985. ... His other gags included zipping around the hippodrome track on water skis and riding in a...
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Mike Myers - Everything2.com  Jul 9, 2003 ... Although he used to act out the character of Wayne for girls at parties, ... game, so that whole lifetime as a comedian would've been a waste of time. ... such as cable-access host Wayne, German Dieter (host of Sprokets), Angus (the ... And things clicked right into place for Mike's project Austin Powers, where...
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4 bad days in history | History Extra  May 19, 2015 ... On 22 April 1983, the German news magazine Stern announced that it had in its possession the personal diary of Adolf Hitlera long hidden set of ... spanning the years 1932 to 1945, for which the magazine had paid millions. ... the diaries to be a crude forgery and the grotesquely superficial concoction...