“The Elephant Man” was Francis’s return to cinematography after a ... After optioning the script by Christopher De Vore and Eric Bergren, Mr. Sanger showed it to Mel Brooks, with whom he had just ...

Lynch was hired by Mel Brooks’ production company to write and direct “The Elephant Man.” The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Lynch’s first for best director.

After Eraserhead, a producer for Mel Brooks contracted Lynch to direct The Elephant Man. The story followed a deformed Victorian gentleman who is tortured by high society in a freak show.

LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) - John Hurt, the wiry English actor who played a drug addict in "Midnight Express," Kane in "Alien," the title character in "The Elephant Man," and Winston Smith in "1984 ...

"[Mel Brooks] said, 'I'm working on a musical based on my movie The Producers, and I think you and Marty Short are the only two people in the world to play those parts,'" Lane recalled ...

Cleavon Little, left, as Sheriff Bart and Gene Wilder as the Waco Kid in Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles ... The following scribblings are by a man of a certain age, a former film critic who ...

When Melvin Kaminsky arrived in Europe with a field artillery unit, he thought he would be a radio operator. In need of combat engineers, though, the Army noticed the young private's military ...

Mel Brooks’ original film was made in 1967 ... James Thomasson is Mr Horner, a man with a Mormon beard and buccaneer-brimmed stetson, who had to temporarily surrender his words to the Lotto ...

Dancehall star Elephant Man will return to the United Kingdom for the first time in 16 years this August for a show, after being granted a work permit to perform in that country. “Ah just God ...

So I'm in this theater, I'm watching it, and the first thing that comes up is a Mel Brooks short called The Critic (which won an Oscar). And watching it, it's an animated thing with Mel kibitzing with ...

Man Utd played out a desperately dull goalless ... “This touch from Dorgu is like the touch of a baby elephant, it’s so terrible. If they want to score goals they need to do better.

And, who better to give you a discussion of the matter than Mel Brooks? In this lengthy (and ... it's like being on the ground floor. From a man on the ground floor, to a man falling off a ...