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...once irrepressible Schroeder feeble, barely able to speak, weepy and depressed. His fondest hope--to return to his home in Jasper, Ind.--has been repeatedly dashed by setbacks. "We have bounced from emotions of excited, happy and hopeful to frustrated, sad, angry and helpless," says Schroeder's son Mel, 31, an engineer. "It hasn't been the easiest of times." Not for Bill Schroeder, and certainly not for his family...
Bancroft got to exercise her hauteur in a few later films (The Turning Point, Agnes of God), but her longest and most piquant role was as wife, muse and keeper of Mel Brooks. They made an implausible, endearing couple: the crazy Brooklyn boy and the Bronx girl who, when they let her, could work miracles. --By Richard Corliss
...Richard Corliss wrote a great story on the new Star Wars movie. Revenge of the Sith looks like exciting summer entertainment and a real winner. I wasn't thrilled with the past two Star Wars movies in the prequel trilogy, but I'm looking forward to this one. Mel McCormick Baltimore, Maryland...
...Caesar, Imogene Coca and Carl Reiner on Your Show of Shows; in Los Angeles. His goofiness enhanced such roles as Ernest T. Bass, a would-be country Casanova on The Andy Griffith Show,and he went on to direct such TV shows as Hogan's Heroes, Bewitched and the Mel Brooks-Buck Henry spy spoof Get Smart...
...Richard Corliss wrote a great story on the new Star Wars movie. Revenge of the Sith looks like exciting summer entertainment and a real winner. I wasn't thrilled with the past two Star Wars movies in the prequel trilogy, but I'm looking forward to this one. Mel McCormick Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Your report made it apparent that Lucas has totally lost touch with his creative genius. His embrace of special-effects technology over anything else has squashed the soul of the latest Star Wars films. His reliance on limitless digital technology allowed him to create his vision...