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Mel Brooks

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    April 5, 2012

    Tasting Notes: This Week in Wine Blogs

    Vintage Texas: Top Texas wine authority Russ Kane chronicles the bankruptcy filing and botched sale of one of the state's leading wineries, CapRock, in Lubbock. According to his report, New Mexico winery Gruet has been ordered to pay $4 million for a breach of contract after bidding in a bankruptcy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Seven Dos and Don'ts for Online Passwords and How to Manage Them

    In the Mel Brooks movie Spaceballs, Dark Helmet (played by Rick Moranis) finds out the passcode to the shield guarding Druidia, a planet from which he intends to steal all the air, is "12345." When hearing it, he responds, "So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest c ... More >>

  • News

    July 7, 2011

    What Dead Passenger?

    Driver caught with corpse in front seat.

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Be A Smarty: Birthday Boy Mel Brooks' Best Musical Numbers

    Mel Brooks, "The Hitler Rap" "I cut my finger. That's tragedy. A man walks into an open sewer and dies. That's comedy." Such is the philosophy of comedy icon Mel Brooks, who made a career out of making light of the heaviest of subject matter, including racism, the Spanish Inquisition and, perha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Odd Pair: Jewish Food and Spanish Godello

    ​White fish salad? It's not just for breakfast anymore. One of my happiest discoveries since moving to Texas nearly three years ago has been Kenny and Ziggy's Delicatessen on Post Oak, where you'll often find me noshing on all the classics of the Jew food canon -- white fish, lox, sable, gefi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Catfish and Ribs at the Nickel

    Robb Walsh gives these pits his seal of approval.​"That's no Southern Pride cooker," Robb Walsh said, gazing with admiration at the two barbecue pits that sit behind the Nickel Sandwich Grill (5601 Lyons, 713-674-8020), belching fragrant gray smoke into the air. "I know you hate Southern Prid ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 3, 2010

    Capsule Stage Reviews: The Designated Mourner, Intelligence-Slave, Young Frankenstein,

    Robb Walsh gives these pits his seal of approval.​"That's no Southern Pride cooker," Robb Walsh said, gazing with admiration at the two barbecue pits that sit behind the Nickel Sandwich Grill (5601 Lyons, 713-674-8020), belching fragrant gray smoke into the air. "I know you hate Southern Prid ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2010

    Young Frankenstein

    See the madness (and genius) of Mel Brooks

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Cory English as Igor in Young Frankenstein, Where Every Day is Hump Day

    You have to get there first before the audience says all your best lines​Cory English, who started out as a dancer before becoming an actor and singer on Broadway, knows that if he doesn't say his lines fast enough, "someone else will."That's because he's now on national tour for Broadway Across A ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 26, 2009

    The Producers

    Talk about having a fear of success

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Westheimer Block Party Listology: Paris Falls' Favorite, and Least Favorite, Musical Moments In the Movies

    All this week, Rocks Off is previewing Saturday and Sunday's Westheimer Block Party by asking WBP performers to fill out a list from Lisa Nola's Music Listography book we're so fond of. It's not too late for your band to be up here, either; just email chris.gray@houstonpress.com by noon Thursday if ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2009

    Young Frankenstein

    Who knew they made tails and top hats in size giganto?

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Top 7 Couples' Costumes for Halloween

    Halloween is coming, and that means many, many costuming mistakes will be made by normally sane adults. To help stop this scourge, each Thursday we will be offering tips and analysis of what to avoid, or possibly what to do. Check out past entries here, here and here. There's one thing -- or should ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    For Back-To-Work Day: Five Lousiest Jobs In The Movies

    It's the day after Labor Day, so you're back inside reading blogs instead of grilling meat and ripping bong hits by a pool somewhere. And even those unfortunate enough not to have had yesterday off are hopefully in a better bargaining position than the Pullman workers whose 1894 strike led to the ho ... More >>

  • Film

    August 20, 2009

    Quentin's Final Solution!

    In a triumph of his will, Tarantino makes Holocaust revisionism ridiculously fun in Inglourious Basterds.

  • Culture

    July 30, 2009

    Fresh Producers

    With this musical, the Masquerade Theatre gets everything right.

  • Film

    July 9, 2009

    Totally Gay for You

    Sacha Baron Cohen's in queerface. But what's Brüno's real target?

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    The Five Best Dom DeLuise Movies, Such As They Are

    Dom DeLuise -- actor, chef, and father of that guy who was on 21 Jump Street -- passed away Monday at the age of 75. Rather than wallow in misery and grief at the loss of another of cinema's titans, we prefer to look back fondly at a movie career mostly spent co-starring alongside Gene Wilder and B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    R.I.P. Dom DeLuise

    According to multiple reports, actor, comedian, chef and cookbook author Dom DeLuise has passed away in Los Angeles at age 75. DeLuise starred in several Mel Brooks movies, including Blazing Saddles (above) and Spaceballs, as well as The End with Burt Reynolds, The Muppet Movie and just about every ... More >>

  • Film

    June 19, 2008

    Get Smart Redux is a Rare Device

    A TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2008

    We Now Present... Steroids, The Musical

    A TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2007

    Wonder If Texas Monthly Will Run a "Drunk Astronaut" Cover

    A TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

  • Film

    July 19, 2007

    Hairspray

    Movie musical of the musical of the movie is nowhere near divine

  • Culture

    May 10, 2007

    Stage Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    May 3, 2007

    Stage Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    April 26, 2007

    Stage Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2006

    Re: Wanted: Stoopid Christmas Fotos

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Film

    June 15, 2006

    Tortilla Flat

    Nacho's funnier than Napoleon, which isn't sayin' much

  • Home Entertainment

    April 6, 2006

    Some Kind of Joke

    Nacho's funnier than Napoleon, which isn't sayin' much

  • Calendar

    March 16, 2006

    Star Powered

    Nacho's funnier than Napoleon, which isn't sayin' much

  • Film

    December 22, 2005

    Springtime for Mel

    Brooks's latest Producers is flawed, but it's better than the first

  • Film

    March 10, 2005

    Talkin' 'Bot Love

    Like Big Fish for little kids, Robots works hard to please everyone

  • Culture

    June 24, 2004

    Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    June 17, 2004

    Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    June 10, 2004

    Capsule Reviews

    Our critic weighs in on local theater

  • Culture

    February 12, 2004

    Fresh Producers

    The Broadway smash-hit continues to thrive with its new cast

  • Calendar

    January 29, 2004

    Alan Ruck's Day On

    A traveling production of The Producers stars Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off

  • Culture

    May 1, 2003

    Of Boobs and Blood

    Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor

  • Film

    February 27, 2003

    Max Factors

    Writer-director Menno Meyjes asks, what if Hitler were once a human being?

  • Film

    January 2, 2003

    Old News

    Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded a good harvest

  • Film

    July 25, 2002

    Fight the Powers

    In Goldmember, Mike Myers's mojo is running low

  • Culture

    July 18, 2002

    After M*A*S*H

    Larry Gelbart is one of TV's last great writers. So why can't he stay tuned?

  • Culture

    November 29, 2001

    When In Doubt...

    Classic gifts

  • Music

    October 12, 2000

    Big Moe

    City of Syrup (Wreckshop)

  • Film

    March 5, 1998

    Venus Envy

    City of Syrup (Wreckshop)

  • Film

    December 28, 1995

    Camp Vamp

    Mel Brooks' Dracula isrise-from-the-dead funny

  • News

    May 4, 1995

    Springtime for Bob

    Lanier worship reaches an apogee at the mayor's million-dollar bash

  • Film

    February 2, 1995

    Disorder in the Court

    In The Madness of King George, it's not good to be king

  • Culture

    September 8, 1994

    Going One-On-One With God

    Illuminati muses on the Almighty and basketball, with mixed results

  • Culture

    March 10, 1994

    Po' PoMo Moliere

    The Alley concocts a Blazing Shambles of its slapstick commedia dell'Tartuffe

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