Word: mel
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...immortal words of Mel Brooks, "It's good to be the king...
Hollywood actors in need of a credibility infusion often turn to the instant image boost offered by performing in anything scripted by William Shakespeare. After starring in a number of films like Bird on a Wire, Mel Gibson, for example, used a turn as Hamlet to achieve some gravitas. The latest bardolatrous movie hunk is KEANU REEVES, who, passing up a $6 million offer to star in Without Remorse, traveled to a stage in Winnipeg, Canada, to transform himself from surfer dude to the glum, quibbling Prince of Denmark. And how has he done? A London Sunday Times critic wrote...
...Gran Scena's brand of burlesque may owe much to Mel Brooks and the Marx Brothers, not to mention the late drag master Charles Ludlam. But it is also clearly an inside job--the work of connoisseurs who, even in falsetto and falsies, have a keen understanding of the magnificent excess that makes this art form so compelling...
Sherman said Nichols had received support from many of those politicians, including Sen. Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.), Rep. Karen McCarthy, and Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan...
...Gran Scena's brand of burlesque may owe much to Mel Brooks and the Marx Brothers, not to mention the late drag master Charles Ludlam. But it is also clearly an inside job -- the work of connoisseurs who, even in falsetto and falsies, have a keen understanding of the magnificent excess that makes this art form so compelling...