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philanthropy (d. 1891)
- 1823 – Antoine Chanzy, French general (d. 1883)
- 1828 – Randal Cremer, English activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)
- 1837 – Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (d. 1908)
- 1840 – William Cosmo Monkhouse... | 48,700 |
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1913)
- 1862 – Eugène Jansson, Swedish painter (d. 1915)
- 1863 – William Sulzer, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of New York (d. 1941)
- 1869 – Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
- 1870 – Agnes Sime Baxter, Canadian mathema... | 48,701 |
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Cronin, English-Australian journalist and author (d. 1968)
- 1886 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1970)
- 1890 – Henri Decoin, French director and screenwriter (d. 1969)
- 1893 – Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
- 1893 – Wilfred Owen, English soldier and poet (... | 48,702 |
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author and activist (d. 1996)
- 1905 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American physicist and engineer (d. 1985)
- 1905 – Robert Donat, English actor (d. 1958)
- 1907 – John Zachary Young, English zoologist and neurophysiologist (d. 1997)
- 1908 – Loulou Gasté, French composer (d. 1995)
- 1909 – Ernest Gallo, Amer... | 48,703 |
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(d. 1941)
- 1915 – Richard Condon, American author and screenwriter (d. 1996)
- 1922 – Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (d. 2015)
- 1922 – Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist and academic (d. 2006)
- 1922 – Fred Shuttlesworth, American act... | 48,704 |
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composer
- 1927 – George Plimpton, American journalist and actor (d. 2003)
- 1927 – Lillian Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (d. 2015)
- 1928 – Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Fidel V. Ramos, Filipino general and politician, 12th... | 48,705 |
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Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
- 1934 – Charley Pride, American country music singer and musician
- 1935 – Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician and statistician
- 1935 – Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (d. 2016)
- 1936 – F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer... | 48,706 |
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Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver (d. 2017)
- 1938 – Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (d. 2006)
- 1939 – Ron Atkinson, English footballer and manager
- 1939 – Jean-Pierre Wallez, French violinist and conductor
- 1941 – Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
- 1942 – Kathleen Collins, African-Am... | 48,707 |
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1945 – Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer
- 1945 – Michael Reagan, American journalist and radio host
- 1945 – Susan Tyrrell, American actress (d. 2012)
- 1945 – Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2009)
- 1946 – Michel Leclère, French race car driver
- 1947 – Patrick Barl... | 48,708 |
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– Åse Kleveland, Norwegian singer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture
- 1950 – James Conlon, American conductor and educator
- 1950 – Brad Dourif, American actor
- 1950 – Linda Partridge, English geneticist and academic
- 1950 – Larry Perkins, Australian race car driver
- 1951 – Paul Barber, Eng... | 48,709 |
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1952 – Mike Webster, American football player (d. 2002)
- 1953 – Franz Wright, Austrian-American poet and translator (d. 2015)
- 1953 – Takashi Yoshimatsu, Japanese composer
- 1955 – Francis G. Slay, American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of St. Louis
- 1955 – Jeff Stelling, English journalist and game... | 48,710 |
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Biggs, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1960 – Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1960 – James Plaskett, Cypriot-English chess player
- 1961 – Grant Hart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
- 1962 – Michael Andrews, Australian rugby league player
- 1962 – Irene Cara, American... | 48,711 |
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1963 – Vanessa L. Williams, American model, actress, and singer
- 1964 – Bonnie Blair, American speed skater
- 1964 – Alex Caffi, Italian race car driver
- 1964 – Jo Churchill, British politician
- 1964 – Courtney Pine, English saxophonist and clarinet player
- 1964 – Isabel Noronha, Mozambican film direc... | 48,712 |
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Marsden, English businessman and politician
- 1969 – Andy Cutting, English accordion player and composer
- 1969 – Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player
- 1969 – Shaun Udal, English cricketer
- 1970 – Queen Latifah, American rapper, producer, and actress
- 1971 – Wayne Arthurs, Australian tennis player
... | 48,713 |
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1974 – Laure Savasta, French basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1974 – Stuart Zender, English bass player, songwriter, and producer
- 1975 – Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1975 – Brian Griese, American football player and sportscaster
- 1975 – Kimmo Timonen, Finnish ice hoc... | 48,714 |
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Murphy, English footballer and sportscaster
- 1977 – Fernando Rodney, Dominican-American baseball player
- 1977 – Willy Sagnol, French footballer and manager
- 1977 – Terrmel Sledge, American baseball player and coach
- 1978 – Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
- 1978 – Brooke Hanson, A... | 48,715 |
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1981 – Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete
- 1981 – Fabian Cancellara, Swiss cyclist
- 1981 – Leslie Djhone, French sprinter
- 1981 – Jang Na-ra, South Korean singer and actress
- 1981 – Kasib Powell, American basketball player
- 1981 – Tom Starke, German footballer
- 1981 – Doug Warren, American soccer pla... | 48,716 |
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baseball player
- 1983 – Tomasz Stolpa, Polish footballer
- 1984 – Simone Padoin, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Rajeev Ram, American tennis player
- 1984 – Vonzell Solomon, American singer and actress
- 1985 – Ana Beatriz, Brazilian race car driver
- 1985 – Marvin Humes, English singer
- 1985 – Vince Lia,... | 48,717 |
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Canadian guitarist and producer
- 1991 – Dylan Mattingly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1991 – Sam Williams, Australian rugby league player
- 1992 – Ryan Truex, American race car driver
- 1992 – Takuya Terada, Japanese singer, actor, and model
- 1997 – Ciara Bravo, American actress
- 1997 – ... | 48,718 |
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1314 – Geoffroy de Charney, Preceptor of Normandy for the Knights Templar
- 1321 – Matthew III Csák, Hungarian oligarch (b. c.1260/5)
- 1582 – Juan Jauregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1562)
- 1675 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
- 1689 – John Dixwell, ... | 48,719 |
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1835 – Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat (b. 1769)
- 1845 – Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and missionary (b. 1774)
- 1871 – Augustus De Morgan, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1806)
- 1898 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American author and activist (b. 182... | 48,720 |
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Greek journalist, lawyer, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1864)
- 1939 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859)
- 1941 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
- 1947 – William C. Durant, American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (b. 1861)
... | 48,721 |
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Aavik, Estonian philologist and poet (b. 1880)
- 1977 – Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)
- 1977 – Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1944)
- 1978 – Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
- 1978 – Peggy Wood, American actress ... | 48,722 |
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Butterfield, American trumpet player and cornet player (b. 1917)
- 1990 – Robin Harris, American comedian (b. 1953)
- 1993 – Kenneth E. Boulding, English-American economist and activist (b. 1910)
- 1996 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- 2000 – Eberhard Bethge, Germa... | 48,723 |
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Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (b. 1927)
- 2006 – Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer and cinematographer (b. 1922)
- 2007 – Bob Woolmer, Indian-English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1948)
- 2008 – Anthony Minghella, English director and screenwriter (b. 1954)
- 2009 – Omid Reza Mir S... | 48,724 |
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soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
- 2012 – William G. Moore Jr., American general (b. 1920)
- 2012 – George Tupou V of Tonga (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and pilot (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Henry Bromell, American novelist, screenwriter, and director (b. 1947)
- 2013 – Cl... | 48,725 |
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(b. 1939)
- 2015 – Grace Ogot, Kenyan nurse, journalist, and politician (b. 1930)
- 2016 – Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (b. 1939)
- 2016 – Jan Němec, Czech director and screenwriter (b. 1936)
- 2016 – Tray Walker, American football player (b. 1992)
- 2016 – Guido Westerwelle, German lawyer... | 48,726 |
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guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1926)
# Holidays and observances.
- Anniversary of the Oil Expropriation (Mexico)
- Christian feast day:
- Alexander of Jerusalem
- Anselm of Lucca
- Cyril of Jerusalem
- Edward the Martyr
- Fridianus
- Salvator
- March 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Earliest ... | 48,727 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky, ; June 28, 1926) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show "Your Show of Shows". Together with Carl Re... | 48,728 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
Twelve Chairs" (1970), "Blazing Saddles" (1974), "Young Frankenstein" (also 1974), "Silent Movie" (1976), "High Anxiety" (1977), "History of the World, Part I" (1981), "Spaceballs" (1987), and "" (1993). A musical adaptation of his first film, "The Producers", ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007.
In 2001, hav... | 48,729 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
2017. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of the past 100 years (1900–2000), all of which ranked in the top 15 of the list: "Blazing Saddles" at number 6, "The Producers" at number 11, and "Young Frankenstein" at number 13.
Brooks was married to the ac... | 48,730 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
Poland); his mother's family were Jews from Kiev, in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). He had three older brothers: Irving, Lenny, and Bernie. Brooks' father died of kidney disease at 34 when Brooks was 2 years old. He has said of his father's death, "There's an outrage ther... | 48,731 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
a Broadway show with his uncle Joe—a taxi driver who would drive the Broadway doormen back to Brooklyn for free and was given the tickets in gratitude—and saw "Anything Goes" with William Gaxton, Ethel Merman and Victor Moore at the Alvin Theater. After the show, he told his uncle that he was not going to wo... | 48,732 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
I can't go on!" before jumping, fully clothed into the pool. He was taught by Buddy Rich (who had also grown up in Williamsburg) how to play the drums and started to earn money as a musician when he was 14. During Brooks' time as a drummer he was given his first opportunity as a comedian at the age of 16 fol... | 48,733 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
was drafted into the United States Army in 1944. After scoring highly on the Army General Classification Test (a Stanford-Binet-type IQ test), he was sent to the elite Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) at the Virginia Military Institute to be taught skills such as military engineering, foreign languag... | 48,734 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
American forces.
# Career.
## Early career.
After the war, Brooks started working in various Borscht Belt resorts and nightclubs in the Catskill Mountains as a drummer and pianist. After a regular comic at one of the nightclubs was too sick to perform one night, Brooks started working as a stand-up comic,... | 48,735 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
1949 his friend Sid Caesar hired Brooks to write jokes for the NBC series "The Admiral Broadway Revue", paying him $50 a week.
## "Your Show of Shows".
In 1950 Caesar created the revolutionary variety comedy series "Your Show of Shows" and hired Brooks as a writer along with Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, Danny ... | 48,736 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
Errol Flynn. Neil Simon's play "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" (1993) is also loosely based on the production of the show, and the character Ira Stone is based on Brooks."Your Show of Shows" ended in 1954 when performer Imogene Coca left to host her own show. Caesar then created "Caesar's Hour" with most of the... | 48,737 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
monk to an astronaut. As Reiner explained: "In the evening, we'd go to a party and I'd pick a character for him to play. I never told him what it was going to be." On one of these occasions, Reiner's suggestion concerned a 2000 year-old-man who had witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus Christ (who "came in the ... | 48,738 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
comic improvisor I had ever seen."
In 1960, Brooks moved from New York to Hollywood. He and Reiner began performing the "2000 Year Old Man" act on "The Steve Allen Show". Their performances led to the release of the comedy album "2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks" that sold over a million copies in... | 48,739 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
Ballantine Beer in the 1960s. Interviewed by Dick Cavett in a series of ads, the Brewmaster (in a German accent, as opposed to the 2000 Year Old Man's Yiddish accent) said he was inside the original Trojan horse and "could've used a six-pack of fresh air."
Brooks was involved in the creation of the Broadway... | 48,740 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
act and added a gay subtext to the plot. The show ran for 80 performances and received two Tony Award nominations.
The animated short film "The Critic" (1963), a satire of arty, esoteric cinema, was conceived by Brooks and directed by Ernest Pintoff. Brooks supplied running commentary as the baffled moviego... | 48,741 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
comic-strip kind of thing about something besides a family. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first." The show stars Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86. The series ran from 1965 until 1970, although Brooks had little involvement after the first season. "Get Smart" was h... | 48,742 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
two producers to fund the show, Joseph E. Levine and Sidney Glazier, and made his first feature film, "The Producers" (1967).
"The Producers" was so brazen in its satire that major studios would not touch it, nor would many exhibitors. Brooks finally found an independent distributor who released it as an ar... | 48,743 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
an unprecedented twelve Tony awards.
With the moderate financial success of the film "The Producers", Glazier financed Brooks' next film, "The Twelve Chairs" (1970). Loosely based on Ilf and Petrov's 1928 Russian novel of the same name about greedy materialism in post-revolutionary Russia, the film stars Ro... | 48,744 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
as a Hollywood director.
Brooks then wrote an adaptation of Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer", but was unable to sell the idea to any studio and believed that his career was over. In 1972, Brooks met agent David Begelman, who helped him set up a deal with Warner Brothers to hire Brooks (as well as ... | 48,745 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
Count Basie. The film had music by Brooks and John Morris, and had a modest budget of $2.6 million. This film is a satire on the Western film genre and references older films such as "Destry Rides Again" (1939), "High Noon" (1952), "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968), and "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"... | 48,746 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
Madeline Kahn, Best Film Editing, and Best Music, Original Song. The film won the Writers Guild of America Award for "Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen" and in 2006 it was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in ... | 48,747 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
that his next film would be an idea that Wilder had been working on; a spoof of the Universal series of "Frankenstein" films from several decades earlier. After the filming of "Blazing Saddles" was completed, Wilder and Brooks began writing the script for "Young Frankenstein" and shot the film in the spring ... | 48,748 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
Wilder accidentally throws a dart out of the window in a scene with Kenneth Mars. Composer John Morris again provided the music score and Universal monsters film special effects veteran Kenneth Strickfaden worked on the film.
"Young Frankenstein" was the third-highest-grossing film domestically of 1974, jus... | 48,749 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
through...Brooks even has a satisfying windup, which makes this just about the only comedy of recent years that doesn't collapse."
In 1975, at the height of his movie career, Brooks tried TV again with "When Things Were Rotten", a Robin Hood parody that lasted only 13 episodes. Nearly 20 years later, in res... | 48,750 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
in his first leading role, Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Sid Caesar, Bernadette Peters, and in cameo roles playing themselves: Paul Newman, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Liza Minnelli, Anne Bancroft, and the non-speaking Marcel Marceau who ironically uttered the film's only word of audible dialogue: "Non!" Althou... | 48,751 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, and Dick Van Patten. The film satirizes such Hitchcock films as "Vertigo", "Spellbound", "Psycho", "The Birds", "North by Northwest", "Dial M for Murder", and "Suspicion". Brooks stars as Professor Richard H. (for Harpo) Thorndyke, a No... | 48,752 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
seeing a poster reading "Mel Brooks presents "The Elephant Man"" would expect a comedy, he set up the company Brooksfilms. Brooksfilms has since produced a number of non-comedy films, including "Frances" (1982), "The Fly" (1986), and "84 Charing Cross Road" (1987), starring Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft,... | 48,753 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
and Biblical spectacles. "History of the World Part I" was a tongue-in-cheek look at human culture from the Dawn of Man to the French Revolution. The film was written, produced, and directed by Brooks with narration by Orson Welles. This film was another modest financial hit, earning $31 million. It received... | 48,754 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
directed by Alan Johnson and starred Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Tim Matheson, Jose Ferrer, and Christopher Lloyd. The film garnered international publicity by featuring a controversial song on its soundtrack – "To Be or Not to Be (The Hitler Rap) – satirizing German society in the 1940s with Bro... | 48,755 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
sitcom "The Nutt House", which featured Brooks regulars Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman and was originally broadcast on NBC, but the network only aired five of the eleven episodes produced before canceling the series. During the next decade, Brooks directed "Life Stinks" (1991), "" (1993), and "" (1995). "... | 48,756 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
above, having been with his 1975 TV show, "When Things Were Rotten". "Life Stinks" was a financial and critical failure, but is notable as being the only film that Brooks directed that is neither a parody nor a film about other films or theater. ("The Twelve Chairs" was actually a parody of the original nove... | 48,757 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
voice Dracula's father, Vlad, in "Hotel Transylvania 2" (2015) and "" (2018).
## Musicals.
The musical adaptation of his film "The Producers" to the Broadway stage broke the Tony record with 12 wins, a record that had previously been held for 37 years by "Hello, Dolly!" at 10 wins. This success led to a bi... | 48,758 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
The world premiere was performed at Seattle's Paramount Theater, between August 7, 2007, and September 1, 2007, after which it opened on Broadway at the former Lyric Theater (then the Hilton Theatre), New York, on October 11, 2007. It earned mixed reviews from the critics.
Brooks joked about the concept of ... | 48,759 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
He was awarded his first Grammy for Best Spoken Comedy Album in 1999 for his recording of "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000" with Carl Reiner. His two other Grammys came in 2002 for Best Musical Show Album for the cast album of "The Producers" and for Best Long Form Music Video for the DVD "Recording t... | 48,760 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
for "The Producers". He won his three Tony awards in 2001 for his work on the musical, "The Producers" for Best Musical, Best Original Musical Score, and Best Book of a Musical.
Brooks won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award for "Young Frankenstein". In a 2005 poll to find "The Comedian's Comedian", he was vote... | 48,761 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 23, 2010 with a motion pictures star located at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard. American Masters produced a biography on Brooks which premiered May 20, 2013, on PBS. The AFI presented Brooks with its highest tribute, th... | 48,762 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
Florence Baum (1926-2008) from 1953-1962, their marriage ending in divorce. They had three children: Stephanie, Nicky, and Eddie. Brooks married stage, film and television actress Anne Bancroft in 1964, and they remained together until her death in 2005. They had met at a rehearsal for the "Perry Como Variet... | 48,763 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
an early meeting with her: "From that day, until her death…we were glued together."
Regarding religion, Brooks stated, "I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all. I think it's the relationship with the people and the pride I have. The tribe su... | 48,764 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
Feinman. "Mel Brooks: The Irreverent Funnyman". Chicago: Playboy Press, 1976. .
- Crick, Robert A. "The Big Screen Comedies of Mel Brooks". Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2002. . .
- Holtzman, William. "Seesaw, a Dual Biography of Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks". Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1979. . .
- McGilli... | 48,765 |
20218 | Mel Brooks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks
urvival and Prolonged Adaptation". Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. . .
- Yacowar, Maurice. "Method in Madness: The Comic Art of Mel Brooks". New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. . .
# External links.
- Mel Brooks – Box Office Data Movie Director at The Numbers
- Mel Brooks – Box Office Data M... | 48,766 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard (; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American heterodox economist of the Austrian School, historian, and a political theorist whose writings and personal influence played a seminal role in the development of modern right-libertarianism. Rothbard was the foun... | 48,767 |
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by the private sector and wrote that the state is "the organization of robbery systematized and writ large". He called fractional-reserve banking a form of fraud and opposed central banking. He categorically opposed all military, political and economic interventionism in the affairs of other nations. Ac... | 48,768 |
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precursor, Ludwig von Mises. To promote his economic and political ideas, Rothbard joined Llewellyn H. "Lew" Rockwell, Jr. and Burton Blumert in 1982 to establish the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Alabama.
# Life and work.
## Education.
Rothbard's parents were David and Rae Rothbard, Jewish immigrant... | 48,769 |
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friends and neighbors who were "communists or fellow-travelers". Rothbard characterized his immigrant father as an individualist who embraced the American values of minimal government, free enterprise, private property and "a determination to rise by one's own merits ... "[A]ll socialism seemed to me mo... | 48,770 |
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and their neighbor at their Manhattan apartment building. It was only after Burns went on leave from the Columbia faculty to head President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisors that Rothbard's thesis was accepted and he received his doctorate. Rothbard later stated that all of his fellow students t... | 48,771 |
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Street division of New York University Business School, Rothbard attended Mises' unofficial seminar. Rothbard was greatly influenced by Mises' book, "Human Action". Rothbard attracted the attention of the William Volker Fund, a group that provided financial backing to promote various right-wing ideologi... | 48,772 |
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he enlarged the project. The result was Rothbard's book "Man, Economy, and State", published in 1962. Upon its publication, Mises praised Rothbard's work effusively.
## Marriage, employment and activism.
In 1953, he married JoAnn Schumacher (1928–1999), whom he called Joey, in New York City. JoAnn was... | 48,773 |
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leading Rothbard to seek employment from various New York academic institutions. He was offered a part-time position teaching economics to the engineering students of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1966 at age 40. This institution had no economics department or economics majors and Rothbard derided i... | 48,774 |
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the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), where he held the title of S.J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics, an endowed chair paid for by a libertarian businessman. According to Rothbard's friend, colleague and fellow Misesian economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Rothbard led a "fringe existence" in ... | 48,775 |
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co-founded the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama and was vice president of academic affairs until 1995. The Institute's "Review of Austrian Economics", a heterodox economics journal later renamed the "Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics", was also founded by Rothbard in 1987.
After Roth... | 48,776 |
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thought it was the best possible way to start a day". Rothbard was irreligious and agnostic toward the existence of God, describing himself as a "mixture of an agnostic and a Reform Jew". Despite identifying as an agnostic and an atheist, Rothbard was critical of the "left-libertarian hostility to relig... | 48,777 |
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of novelist Ayn Rand, the founder of Objectivism. He soon parted from her, writing among other things that her ideas were not as original as she proclaimed, but similar to those of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and Herbert Spencer. In 1958, after the publication of Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged", Rothbard wr... | 48,778 |
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a few months, but he soon broke with Rand once more over various differences, including his defense of anarchism.
Later, Rothbard satirized Rand's acolytes in his unpublished one-act play "Mozart Was a Red" written as a farce and the essay "The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult". Rothbard characterized Ra... | 48,779 |
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Ethical and philosophical views.
## Austrian economics.
Rothbard was an advocate and practitioner of the Austrian School tradition of his teacher Ludwig von Mises. Like Mises, Rothbard rejected the application of the scientific method to economics and dismissed econometrics, empirical and statistical ... | 48,780 |
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Hoppe, eschewing the scientific method and empirical evidence distinguishes the Misesian approach "from all other current economic schools". Mark Skousen of Grantham University and the Foundation for Economic Education, a critic of mainstream economics, praises Rothbard as brilliant, his writing style p... | 48,781 |
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economists dismiss as "dogmatic and unscientific" the Misesian approach, which both he and Rothbard embraced.
Rothbard wrote extensively on Austrian business cycle theory and as part of this approach strongly opposed central banking, fiat money and fractional-reserve banking and advocated a gold standa... | 48,782 |
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot and Étienne Bonnot de Condillac for developing the subjective theory of value. In response to Rothbard's charge that Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" was largely plagiarized, David D. Friedman castigated Rothbard's scholarship and character, saying that he "was [either] deliber... | 48,783 |
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monetary and banking situation". He demeaned John Stuart Mill as a "wooly man of mush" and speculated that Mill's "soft" personality led his economic thought astray.
Rothbard was critical of monetarist economist Milton Friedman. In a polemic entitled "Milton Friedman Unraveled", he maligned Friedman as... | 48,784 |
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a dogmatist".
In a memorial volume published by the Mises Institute, Rothbard's protégé and libertarian theorist Hans-Hermann Hoppe wrote that the work "Man, Economy, and State" "presented a blistering refutation of all variants of mathematical economics" and included it among Rothbard's "almost mind-b... | 48,785 |
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he self-identified as an Austrian economist, Rothbard's methodology was at odds with many other Austrians. In 1956, Rothbard deprecated the views of Austrian economist Fritz Machlup, stating that Machlup was no praxeologist and calling him instead a "positivist" who failed to represent the views of Ludw... | 48,786 |
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Cowen and Richard Fink, Rothbard wrote that the term evenly rotating economy (ERE) can be used to analyze complexity in a world of change. The words ERE had been introduced by Mises as an alternative nomenclature for the mainstream economic method of static equilibrium and general equilibrium analysis. ... | 48,787 |
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politicians and laypeople on the right. The article contrasted Rothbard's categorical rejection of inflationary policies with the monetary views of "sophisticated Austrian-school monetary economists such as George Selgin and Larry White, [who] follow Hayek in treating stability of nominal spending as a ... | 48,788 |
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and economics, he parted with Mises on the question of ethics. Specifically, he rejected Mises conviction that ethical values remain subjective and opposed utilitarianism in favor of principle-based, natural law reasoning. In defense of his free market views, Mises employed utilitarian economic argument... | 48,789 |
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loosely basing the idea on the writings of John Locke and also borrowing concepts from classical liberalism and the anti-imperialism of the Old Right.
Rothbard accepted the labor theory of property, but rejected the Lockean proviso, arguing that if an individual mixes his labor with unowned land then h... | 48,790 |
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before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences". In it, Rothbard wrote: "At the heart of the egalitarian left is the pathological belief that there is no structure of reality; that all the world is a tabula rasa that can be changed at any moment in any desired direction by the mere exercise ... | 48,791 |
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of all the various strains of libertarian anarchism, whose contemporary advocates are former "colleagues" of Rothbard personally inspired by his example.
During his years at graduate school in the late 1940s, Rothbard considered whether a strict "laissez-faire" policy would require that private police ... | 48,792 |
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work. Thus, he "combined the "laissez-faire" economics of Mises with the absolutist views of human rights and rejection of the state" from individualist anarchists. In an unpublished memo written around 1949, Rothbard concluded that in order to believe in "laissez-faire" one must also embrace anarchism.... | 48,793 |
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monopoly on force.
In "Man, Economy, and State", Rothbard divides the various kinds of state intervention in three categories: "autistic intervention", which is interference with private non-economic activities; "binary intervention", which is forced exchange between individuals and the state; and "tri... | 48,794 |
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argues that self-interest therefore prejudices the views of many economists in favor of increased government intervention.
## Race, gender and civil rights.
Michael O'Malley, Associate Professor of History at George Mason University, characterizes Rothbard's "overall tone regard[ing]" the civil rights... | 48,795 |
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Gilded Age pietist Protestants that wanted to bring a secularized version of millennialism under a welfare state, which was spearheaded by a coalition of Yankee Protestant and Jewish women and "lesbian spinsters".
Rothbard called for the elimination of "the entire 'civil rights' structure" stating that... | 48,796 |
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out" to the "middle and working classes", which included urging the police to crack down on "street criminals", writing that "cops must be unleashed" and "allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error". He also advocated that the police "clear the street... | 48,797 |
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to be favored by whites because he "was the major restraining force on the developing Negro revolution". Rothbard rejected the idea of "compulsory integration" and felt that "self-help, pride, thrift, Negro businesses, etc... cannot hope to flourish within the context of the black reality in America: pe... | 48,798 |
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no massive "foreign aid" from the U.S.A.?". Rothbard also suggested that opposition to King, whom he demeaned as a "coercive integrationist", should be a litmus test for members of his "paleolibertarian" political movement.
Political scientist Jean Hardisty commented on Rothbard's "praise" of the argum... | 48,799 |
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