Word: mel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mel Perry...
When is a Mel Brooks film not a Mel Brooks film? When he produces but does not direct, when he stars but does not write. And perhaps when he is more interested in paying tribute than in parody. To Be or Not to Be is a remarkably faithful adaptation of Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 comedy about a troupe of ungood actors asked to take parts in a real-life espionage plot set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Lubitsch was contrasting the egocentricity and generosity of show people with the boorishness of their oppressors, representatives of a politics that monstrously parodied...
...will win the election because, for people who are frightened by Mel King's rhetoric and Blackness, he has managed to appear, more or less, as an advocate of the status...
DESPITE WHAT those who think Boston is too bigoted say. Mel King could have won this election. Ray Flynn, too, is considered an outsider, and if he does win tomorrow he will become the first to reach Parkman House from South Boston...
...though largely irrelevant, proclivity to speak out on everything from Zionism to nuclear policy has managed to draw voter attention away from a platform which--though still incomplete--is more appealing than Flynn's King was wise this summer to discard the African dashikis in favor of the new Mel King Look--the bowtie and suits--and the change symbolized that he had moved beyond the protest leader state. It is surprising that he did not have the foresight to throw the rhetoric into the trash as well...