Mel Brooks On Oscars & Show Business | The Dick Cavett Show

Richard is joined by Mel Brooks, who talks through his mother's reactions to his career choice and why he was called 'stretch'.
Date aired - 4th April - 1970
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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Brooks was 45 here, looked 55 and 5 decades later is still going strong at almost 100. The man is a treasure.

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Brooks and Bancroft were together 41 years, until she died. A rare legitimate Hollywood marriage.

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I heard him speak once on Long Island, and he was asked by an audience member what accomplishment he was proudest of in his life, and without a moment’s thought he said “Marrying Anne Bancroft.”

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01:33 M. Brooks: My Oscar is living in Detroit. D. Cavett: Lord Alfred Douglas!

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Both men still going

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Who is the other guy there

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Film critic Rex Reed.

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Rex Reed

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I waited and waited, but for some reason Dick chose not to ask Mel Brooks about growing as a jewish boy or cultural references 'pertinent' to being Jewish. If you would to like to follow my logic - Just watch his previous interview with infamous Richard Pryor. Maybe Dick learned something.

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