MEL BROOKS TO GET LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Oct 05, 2012
By Michael Kramer
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- It’ll be springtime for Mel Brooks when the American Film Institute presents him with its highest honour, the Life Achievement Award.
The writer and director of comedy classics including “The Producers,” ”Blazing Saddles,“and ”Young Frankenstein“ will receive the award at a gala tribute next June.
The 86-year-old Brooks is the 41st recipient of the honour, which has gone to Hollywood legends including Orson Welles, Elizabeth Taylor, Steven Spielberg and Meryl Streep .
mel brooks is one of only 14 people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony award.
The writer and director of comedy classics including “The Producers,” ”Blazing Saddles,“and ”Young Frankenstein“ will receive the award at a gala tribute next June.
The 86-year-old Brooks is the 41st recipient of the honour, which has gone to Hollywood legends including Orson Welles, Elizabeth Taylor, Steven Spielberg and Meryl Streep .
mel brooks is one of only 14 people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony award.
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