He won his first of four Emmy awards in 1967 for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety for a Sid Caesar special and went on to win three consecutive Emmys in 1997, 1998, and 1999 for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his role of Uncle Phil on Mad About You. Brooks stars as Professor Richard H. (for Harpo) Thorndyke, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist who also happens to suffer from "high anxiety".[14]. A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! [14] History of the World Part I was a tongue-in-cheek look at human culture from the Dawn of Man to the French Revolution. Young Frankenstein was the third-highest-grossing film domestically of 1974, just behind Blazing Saddles. The film satirizes such Hitchcock films as Vertigo, Spellbound, Psycho, The Birds, North by Northwest, Dial M for Murder, and Suspicion. "[58], "I'm rather secular. Author Max Brooks reveals genesis of #DontBeASpreader PSA he created with his iconic father Mel Brooks when the coronavirus first hit the U.S. … Zapowiedzi, Nowości i Bestsellery na Blu Ray i DVD. Robin Hood: Men in Tights was Brooks' second time exploring the life of Robin Hood, the first, as mentioned above, having been with his 1975 TV show, When Things Were Rotten. I can't go on!" Mel Brooks • komedia • pliki użytkownika tatanka.com przechowywane w serwisie Chomikuj.pl • DWANAŚCIE KRZESEŁ 1970 [PL].avi, [1983] BYĆ ALBO NIE BYĆ [TO BE OR NOT TO BE] lektor PL.avi Vote for Joe. He also began acting in summer stock in Red Bank, New Jersey, and did some radio work. [53] On March 20, 2015, Brooks was awarded a British Film Institute Fellowship from the British Film Institute.[54]. It was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Madeline Kahn, Best Film Editing, and Best Music, Original Song. "[14] On one of these occasions, Reiner's suggestion concerned a 2000 year-old-man who had witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus Christ (who "came in the store but never bought anything"), had been married several hundred times, and had "over forty-two thousand children, and not one comes to visit me." [13] He grew up in tenement housing. The animated short film The Critic (1963), a satire of arty, esoteric cinema, was conceived by Brooks and directed by Ernest Pintoff. [14] Eventually, he was able to find two producers to fund the show, Joseph E. Levine and Sidney Glazier, and made his first feature film, The Producers (1968).[39]. [14] He eventually worked his way up to the comically aggressive job of tummler (master entertainer) at Grossinger's, one of the Borscht Belt's most famous resorts. At the 41st Academy Awards, Brooks won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the film over fellow writers Stanley Kubrick and John Cassavetes. (The Twelve Chairs was actually a parody of the original novel.) [52] In 2014 Brooks was honored in a handprint and footprint ceremony at TCL Chinese Theatre. z o. o. Sp. With comedy writer Buck Henry, Brooks created a comedic TV show titled Get Smart about a bumbling James Bond-inspired spy. They had three children: Stephanie, Nicky, and Eddie. Their son Max Brooks is an actor and author, known for his novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006). [28] Likewise, the film My Favorite Year (1982) is loosely based on Brooks' experiences as a writer on the show including an encounter with the actor Errol Flynn. Mel Brooks, właściwie Melvin Kaminsky (ur.28 czerwca 1926 w Nowym Jorku) – amerykański aktor, scenarzysta, reżyser i producent.. Specjalizuje się w parodiach znanych dzieł i gatunków kinowych. He also produced the comedy Fatso (1980) that Bancroft directed. In 1972, Brooks met agent David Begelman, who helped him set up a deal with Warner Brothers to hire Brooks (as well as Richard Pryor, Andrew Bergman, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger) as a script doctor for an unproduced script called Tex-X. Vote for science. It received mixed critical reviews. In 1949, his friend Sid Caesar hired Brooks to write jokes for the DuMont/NBC series The Admiral Broadway Revue,[26] paying him $50 a week. Klasyk, ktory nawet jezeli mial jakies slabsze ... Cieszymy się, że Ty też masz łeb pełen filmów i chcesz podzielić się swoją wiedzą z innymi.Niniejsza strona została utworzona dzięki takim jak Ty! [33][34], Brooks and co-writer Reiner had become close friends and began to casually improvise comedy routines when they were not working. Florence Baum (26.11.1953 - 20.01.1962, rozwód), 3 dzieci: Stefanie (ur. His father's family were German Jews from Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland); his mother's family were Jews from Kiev, in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award in June 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in March 2015, a National Medal of Arts in September 2016, and a BAFTA Fellowship in February 2017. The show ran for 80 performances and received two Tony Award nominations. reżyseria Mel Brooks scenariusz Mel Brooks zdjęcia Joseph F. Coffey muzyka John Morris czas trwania: 88. zachomikowany. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. via Twitter. "Nothing I could say would top the enormity of my love for you. This film is a satire on the Western film genre and references older films such as Destry Rides Again (1939), High Noon (1952), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), as well as a surreal scene towards the end of the film referencing the extravagant musicals of Busby Berkeley. [14] After scoring highly on the Army General Classification Test—a Stanford–Binet-type IQ test—he was sent to the elite Army Specialized Training Program at the Virginia Military Institute to be taught skills such as military engineering, foreign languages, or medicine. He returned, to voice Dracula's father, Vlad, in Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)[43] and Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018). [14], Brooks then wrote an adaptation of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, but was unable to sell the idea to any studio and believed that his career was over. People magazine suggested, "anyone in a mood for a hearty laugh couldn't do better than Robin Hood: Men in Tights, which gave fans a parody of Robin Hood, especially Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves."[42]. At one point, when Brooks had financial and career struggles, the record sales from the 2000 Year Old Man were his chief source of income. In middle age, Brooks became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with many of his films being among the top 10 moneymakers of the year they were released. The film starred Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, Joan Rivers, Dom DeLuise, and Brooks. So it's really the story of that heart being mended."[14]. Brooks eventually started a comedy act and also worked in radio and as Master Entertainer at Grossinger's Resort before going to television. [14] The writing staff proved widely influential. Darmowa Dostawa. His concrete handprints include a six-fingered left hand as he wore a prosthetic finger when making his prints. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. W swoich filmach, o specyficznym klimacie i poczuciu humoru, często też występuje w jednej z pobocznych ról. The film garnered international publicity by featuring a controversial song on its soundtrack—"To Be or Not to Be (The Hitler Rap)"—satirizing German society in the 1940s with Brooks playing Hitler. Reiner played the straight-man interviewer and set Brooks up as anything from a Tibetan monk to an astronaut. "[36] The show stars Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86. Brooks produced and starred in (but did not write or direct) a remake of Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 film To Be or Not to Be. at 10 wins. Mel Brooks, Ed Asner, Steve Martin and More Pay Tribute to Cloris Leachman: “She Was a Comedic Genius” Lexy Perez 1 day ago. I decided to be the first. For several years, Brooks had been toying with a bizarre and unconventional idea about a musical comedy of Adolf Hitler. Wystarczy porownac jego parodie z wszelkimi wspolczesnymi wypocinami i widac kto jest mistrzem. The film had music by Brooks and John Morris, and had a modest budget of $2.6 million. [55] Brooks married stage, film and television actress Anne Bancroft in 1964, and they remained together until her death in 2005. Mel Brooks is a comedy legend, but his latest project is no joke: an endorsement video for Joe Biden. Brooks kept his guests amused with his crazy antics. Był brany pod uwagę do roli doktora Sama Loomisa w horrorze ". He wrote, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970. Upon its release, Blazing Saddles was the second-highest US grossing film of 1974, earning $119.5 million worldwide. Loosely based on Ilf and Petrov's 1928 Russian novel of the same name about greedy materialism in post-revolutionary Russia, the film stars Ron Moody, Frank Langella, and Dom DeLuise as three men individually searching for a fortune in diamonds hidden in a set of 12 antique chairs. Bruce Glikas—Getty Images Young Frankenstein [56] They met at a rehearsal for the Perry Como Variety Show in 1961, and were married three years later on August 5, 1964, at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. [14] During Brooks' time as a drummer he was given his first opportunity as a comedian at the age of 16 following an ill MC. Composer John Morris again provided the music score and Universal monsters film special effects veteran Kenneth Strickfaden worked on the film. Growing up in Williamsburg, I learned to clothe it in comedy to spare myself problems—like a punch in the face. Brooks was married to Florence Baum (1926–2008) from 1953 to 1962, their marriage ending in divorce. In the 2000s, Brooks worked on an animated series sequel to Spaceballs called Spaceballs: The Animated Series, which premiered on September 21, 2008, on G4 TV. Mel Brooks has created some of the most iconic comedies in film history, and following a sold out debut in Las Vegas this summer, he returns to Wynn for an exclusive two-night engagement in the Encore Theater. During his teens, Melvyn Kaminsky officially changed his name to Mel Brooks,[16] influenced by his mother's maiden name Brookman, after being confused with the trumpeter Max Kaminsky. [24] With the end of the war in Europe, Brooks took part in organizing shows for captured Germans and American forces.[7]. [27] Reiner, as creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show, based Morey Amsterdam's character Buddy Sorell on Brooks. 24.05.1959); 2. In 1989, Brooks (with co-executive producer Alan Spencer) made another attempt at television success with the sitcom The Nutt House, which featured Brooks regulars Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman and was originally broadcast on NBC, but the network only aired five of the eleven episodes produced before canceling the series. ", "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview", "Shmoozing with Mel Brooks, the 88-year-old man", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, "A Mel Brooks Fan Site :: Print: Adelina Magazine February 1980", "Is Jerrod Carmichael the Funniest In His Family? Critic Pauline Kael, who for years had been critical of Brooks, said: "Either you get stuck thinking about the bad taste or you let yourself laugh at the obscenity in the humor as you do Buñuel's perverse dirty jokes."[14]. The second movie Brooks directed in the 1980s came in the form of Spaceballs (1987), a parody of science fiction, mainly Star Wars. [51] The AFI presented Brooks with its highest tribute, the AFI Life Achievement Award, in June 2013. Dołącz do Facebooka, by mieć kontakt z „Mel Brooks” i innymi, których możesz znać. His two other Grammys came in 2002 for Best Musical Show Album for the cast album of The Producers and for Best Long Form Music Video for the DVD "Recording the Producers – A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks". Brooks was involved in the creation of the Broadway musical All American which debuted on Broadway in 1962. Mojżesz / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / Król Ludwik XVI, Gubernator William J. Lepetomane / Wódz Indian, Wilkołak / Kot trafiony rzutką / Victor Frankenstein. No creative team or plan has been announced.[44]. Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes. Brooks has also supplied vocal roles for animation. Early life and work. Który jego film lubicie najbardziej? The film won the Writers Guild of America Award for "Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen" and in 2006 it was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. I mean when that black guy rides into that Old Western town and even a little old lady says 'Up yours, nigger! Brooks explains: "I was sick of looking at all those nice sensible situation comedies. Brooksfilms has since produced a number of non-comedy films, including Frances (1982), The Fly (1986), and 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), starring Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft, along with comedies, including Richard Benjamin's My Favorite Year (1982), which was partially based on Mel Brooks' real life. It earned $86 million worldwide and received two Academy Award nominations: Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Sound. [7], Brooks adapted the 2000 Year Old Man character to create the 2500 Year Old Brewmaster for Ballantine Beer in the 1960s. [11][12] Brooks' father died of kidney disease at 34 when Brooks was 2 years old. Niesamowite poczucie humoru ale chyba jednak dla nielicznyh. After a regular comic at one of the nightclubs was too sick to perform one night, Brooks started working as a stand-up comic, telling jokes and doing movie-star impressions. Był żołnierzem, prezenterem stacji telewizyjnej, reżyserem teatralnym, aż w końcu reżyserem, aktorem i scernarzystą filmowym. The tribe surviving so many misfortunes, and being so brave and contributing so much knowledge to the world and showing courage. Miał stopień kaprala, wykonywał m.in. Anne Bancroft (05.08.1964 - 06.06.2005, jej śmierć), syn Maximilian Michael (ur. In early April 2006, Brooks began composing the score to a Broadway musical adaptation of Young Frankenstein, which he says is "perhaps the best movie [he] ever made." W swoim życiu parał się rozmaitymi zawodami. Rabaty do -40%. Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York, to Max (1895–1929) and Kate (née Brookman) Kaminsky (1896–1989),[5][6] and grew up in Williamsburg. The film was written, produced, and directed by Brooks with narration by Orson Welles. In 1975, at the height of his movie career, Brooks tried TV again with When Things Were Rotten, a Robin Hood parody that lasted only 13 episodes. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. — Mel Brooks, who directed Leachman in films including "Young Frankenstein." Brooks joked about the concept of a musical adaptation of Blazing Saddles in the final number in Young Frankenstein, in which the full company sings, "next year, Blazing Saddles!" But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all. [14] They eventually expanded their routine with two more albums in 1961 and 1962, a revival in 1973, a 1975 animated TV special, and a reunion album in 1998. Brooks was married to the actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death in 2005. [17] He also studied psychology at Brooklyn College for one year. Mel Brooks, original name Melvin Kaminsky, (born June 28, 1926, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American film and television director, producer, writer, and actor whose motion pictures elevated outrageousness and vulgarity to high comic art.. Mel Brooks to niewątpliwie jeden z najbardziej zasłużonych reżyserów komediowych. zadania saperskie. Later that year, Brooks was named number 5 on a list of the Top Ten Box Office Stars. Brooks finally found an independent distributor who released it as an art film, a specialized attraction. 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Copyright © 1998-2021 Filmweb Sp. Ma trzech starszych braci: Irvinga, Lenny'ego i Berniego. At age 9, Brooks went to a Broadway show with his uncle Joe—a taxi driver who drove the Broadway doormen back to Brooklyn for free and was given the tickets in gratitude—and saw Anything Goes with William Gaxton, Ethel Merman and Victor Moore at the Alvin Theater. He won his three Tony awards in 2001 for his work on the musical, The Producers for Best Musical, Best Original Musical Score, and Best Book of a Musical. The 94-year-old EGOT winner posted a video Wednesday on the Twitter account of his son, author Max Brooks , in which he makes his case for the Democratic presidential nominee. It starred Wilder, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman and Kenneth Mars, with Gene Hackman in a cameo role. The film would premiere to a limited audience in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on November 22, 1967 before achieving a wide release in 1968. I think it's the relationship with the people and the pride I have. Brooks' film resurrected several pieces of dialogue from his TV series, as well as from earlier Brooks films. I never told him what it was going to be. In 2001, having previously won an Emmy, a Grammy and an Oscar, he joined a small list of EGOT winners with his Tony Award wins for The Producers. I may be angry at God, or at the world, for that. [20][21], Brooks served as a corporal in the 1104th Engineer Combat Battalion, 78th Infantry Division, defusing land mines as the allies advanced into Nazi Germany. Silent Movie (1976) was written by Brooks and Ron Clark, starring Brooks in his first leading role, Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Sid Caesar, Bernadette Peters, and in cameo roles playing themselves: Paul Newman, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Liza Minnelli, Anne Bancroft, and the non-speaking Marcel Marceau who ironically uttered the film's only word of audible dialogue: "Non!" [46] In a 2005 poll by Channel 4 to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted No. At first Brooks and Reiner only performed the routine for friends but, by the late 1950s, it gained a reputation in New York City. Producenci.avi W … Brooks wrote the play with lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. The film received poor reviews and was not financially successful. When Gene Wilder replaced Gig Young as the Waco Kid, he did so only if Brooks agreed that his next film would be an idea that Wilder had been working on; a spoof of the Universal series of Frankenstein films from several decades earlier. Brooks is one of the few people who have received an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony, and a Grammy. “Mel Brooks makes sense. "[59], "They can be anything and anywhere … if there’s a tribal thing, like, the ‘please God, protect us’ feeling … we don’t know where and how it’s gonna come out. The Golden Age of Comedy, Bravo Profiles: The Entertainment Business, Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch, It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein, Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's. The series ran from 1965 until 1970, although Brooks had little involvement after the first season. Mel Brooks Celebrity Profile - Check out the latest Mel Brooks photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at Rotten Tomatoes! [45] He was awarded his first Grammy for Best Spoken Comedy Album in 1999 for his recording of The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 with Carl Reiner. Mel Brooks to niewątpliwie jeden z najbardziej zasłużonych reżyserów komediowych. [38] Brooks explored the idea as a novel and a play before finally writing a script. [7][8][9][10] He had three older brothers: Irving, Lenny, and Bernie. His best-known films include The Producers (1968), The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). [14], Brooks' parody of the films of Alfred Hitchcock in High Anxiety (1977) was written by Brooks, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, and Barry Levinson. After the show, he told his uncle that he was not going to work in the garment district like everyone else but was absolutely going into show business. Brooks has said that the film "has to do with love more than anything else. 21.02.1956), Nicholas (ur. before jumping, fully clothed into the pool. 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Melvin Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), known professionally as In 1950, Caesar created the revolutionary variety comedy series Your Show of Shows and hired Brooks as a writer along with Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, Danny Simon, and head writer Mel Tolkin. Melvin Kaminsky[1] (born June 28, 1926), known professionally as Mel Brooks, is an American director, writer, actor, comedian, producer and composer. In 1981, Brooks joked that the only genres that he had not spoofed were historical epics and Biblical spectacles. With Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Ronny Graham, Estelle Reiner. Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. [40] The Producers became a smash underground hit, first on the nationwide college circuit, then in revivals and on home video. Kenneth Tynan saw the comedy duo perform at a party in 1959 and wrote that Brooks "was the most original comic improvisor I had ever seen. Lęk wysokości, Kosmiczne jaja, Młody Frankenstein, Nieme kino... tą są prawdziwe parodie, zaś to co teraz robią z tym gatunkiem... bez komentarza! Mel Brooks - Mel Brooks to niewątpliwie jeden z najbardziej zasłużonych reżyserów komediowych. "[41] Released that year was the dramatic film The Elephant Man directed by David Lynch and produced by Brooks. Przeczytaj opinie i recenzje. I say that's bullshit. At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis. [22][23] He also fought in the Battle of the Bulge. As Reiner explained: "In the evening, we'd go to a party and I'd pick a character for him to play. Mel Brooks - Data urodzenia 1926-06-28 , Brooklyn, Nowy Jork, Nowy Jork, USA występuje również jako: Melvin Brooks, Melvin Kaminsky. It received some of the best reviews of Brooks' career and even critic Pauline Kael liked the film, saying: "Brooks makes a leap up as a director because, although the comedy doesn't build, he carries the story through ... Brooks even has a satisfying windup, which makes this just about the only comedy of recent years that doesn't collapse."[14]. Brooks won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award for Young Frankenstein. I wanted to do a crazy, unreal comic-strip kind of thing about something besides a family. It earned mixed reviews from the critics. He and Reiner began performing the "2000 Year Old Man" act on The Steve Allen Show. Brooks was an accomplished mimic, pianist, and drummer by the time he graduated from high school and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1944. W swoich filmach często wykorzystuje gagi, które parodiują błędy filmowców, np. Interviewed by Dick Cavett in a series of ads, the Brewmaster (in a German accent, as opposed to the 2000 Year Old Man's Yiddish accent) said he was inside the original Trojan horse and "could've used a six-pack of fresh air."[35]. ', 'Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Like Brooks' other films, it is filled with one-liners and even the occasional breaking of the fourth wall. The film was shot in Yugoslavia with a budget of $1.5 million. 50 of the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.[47]. [29] Neil Simon's play Laughter on the 23rd Floor (1993) is also loosely based on the production of the show, and the character Ira Stone is based on Brooks. Świetny gość i oby żył jak najdłużej! [49][50] American Masters produced a biography on Brooks which premiered May 20, 2013, on PBS. The show starred Ray Bolger as a southern science professor at a large university who uses the principles of engineering on the college's football team and the team begins to win games. And I'm sure a lot of my comedy is based on anger and hostility. "[11][12][14], Brooks was a small, sickly boy who often was bullied and teased by his classmates because of his size. Brooks later turned it into a musical, which became hugely successful on Broadway, receiving an unprecedented twelve Tony awards. "[14], In 1960, Brooks moved from New York to Hollywood. [3] A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007, and was remade into a musical film in 2005. 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America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction. Blazing Saddles starred Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn, Alex Karras, and Brooks himself, with cameos by Dom DeLuise and Count Basie. zobacz elementy, które możesz współtworzyć! The musical adaptation of his film The Producers to the Broadway stage broke the Tony record with 12 wins, a record that had previously been held for 37 years by Hello, Dolly! This film was another modest financial hit, earning $31 million. [30][31] Your Show of Shows ended in 1954 when performer Imogene Coca left to host her own show. More states seek … Eventually, Brooks was hired as director for what became Blazing Saddles (1974), his third film.[14]. [48] He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 23, 2010 with a motion pictures star located at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard. Sprawdź wszystkie filmy reżysera Mel Brooks. [14][25] Brooks found more rewarding work behind the scenes, becoming a comedy writer for television. Brooks makes a cameo appearance as an alcoholic ex-serf who "yearns for the regular beatings of yesteryear." The Producers was so brazen in its satire that major studios would not touch it, nor would many exhibitors. Brooks supplied running commentary as the baffled moviegoer trying to make sense of the obscure visuals.