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...MEL BROOKS COLLECTION...
...triple-sec alternative to Mel Brooks' very wet humor, Peter Greenaway is the commercial cinema's pre-eminent avant-gardist. Back before he made The Draughtsman's Contract and 8 1/2 Women, he made meticulously malevolent short films (seven are collected here) and The Falls, a three-hour fake-umentary about 92 people whose lives were altered by a Violent Unknown Event. The textual and textural density is intoxicating, the English wit so dry you could choke on it. A sturdy challenge for movie lovers--and unmissable...
...Third Kind,” and John Debilles, who has written for “Seinfeld” and “Saturday Night Live.” Dreyfuss and Debilles spoke freely of their experience with comedy, bantering about the merits of Andy Kaufman and praising Mel Brooks. Then Dreyfuss took on a more serious tone about the value of comedy. “Comics are known to be unhappy people,” he said. “As someone who has done comedy...you realize it’s a blessing. It’s a mitzvah...
...beguiled me with his opening sentence: "I'm the guy they hired to f___ up your book." He had read the book, written a screenplay on spec (i.e., without financial guarantees) and sent it to Mel over the transom. Mel read the script and called Jason from his private jet--presumably flying from one bankruptcy court to another--to say it was brilliant and exactly the script he had hoped for and he would absolutely make it. And that was the last Jason Reitman ever heard from Mel...
David Sacks called the next day. I told him he must call Mel's people. David spent the next year and a half negotiating back the rights. I congratulated him and went back to assuming that the usual--that is, nothing--would happen...