Word: mel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name OMO for her sleek, new, triple-level boutique.) She rarely travels, often works until midnight and has not taken a day off in months. "I know I'm intense," she says, "but I express humor in my clothes. I'm even trying to find a Mel Brooks to spend the rest of my life with...
...Vereen, and Jack Jones, all wards of Caesars Palace and the Sahara and the Dunes. And then Mike Douglas, crinkly-eyes and soothing friend of millions. And for the kids, a little "rock," from Rick Springfield, better known for his regular role on "General Hospital." A fat, old Mel Torme, Lola Falana...
They meet as competitors in a provincial track meet. They start to become friends when Archy, the country mouse (Mark Lee), shares his breakfast with Frank, the city ferret (Mel Gibson), who has gone broke betting on himself. That friendship deepens as they trek through the Australian outback to Perth, where the idealistic but underage Archy hopes to find a recruiter who will permit him to fight for someone else's King and country in the Great...
...recent, glossier work. He appears here in the role of a "secret Resistance fighter"-against the Nazis on-screen and the moneymen of the new German cinema. But he puts up too little resistance to the lures of an international cast (including Giancarlo Giannini as a Swiss Jew, and Mel Ferrer as his father!), a multilingual film (the principals appear to be speaking English, which has been dubbed into German and subtitled back into English) and a $5 million budget. Once, churning out more than 30 films before his 30th birthday, Fassbinder was called the movies' Wunderkind...
...history, as they say, is a pack of tricks the living play on the dead, then Mel Brooks, who should be good at this game, is playing with a very thin deck. In his recreation of four epochs (prehistory, the Roman Empire, the Spanish Inquisition and the French Revolution), he uses only two cards: cruelty and scatology. They are not aces. They are not even jokers...