After 60 years in show business, Mel Brooks has earned more major awards than any other living entertainer. A comedy force of nature, Brooks is very private, making his participation in this fiIm a genuine first. Showcasing the Brooklyn native's brilIiant, skewed originality, American Masters: Mel Brooks - Make A Noise features never-before-heard stories and new interviews with Brooks, Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Carl Reiner, Joan Rivers, Tracey UIIman, and others. This career spanning documentary of the man behind Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, SpacebaIls and of course the 2000 Year Old Man journeys through Brooks' professionaI and personaI ups and downs, providing a rare and uniqueIy entertaining look at a Iiving Iegend. |