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Dr Richard Thorndyke , the new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, find himself framed for murder.

Ever wonder why you know so many Yiddish words, fellow goyim? I know I have -- I've used words like "putz," "schmuck," "klutz" and "schnozz" most of my life, without any idea where I picked them up.

Mel Brooks has always been a favorite director of many different types of people and if you were in Las Vegas Saturday the fourth of February this year, you saw an example of this fact.

Following up on a little discussion that was going on in comment, not long ago I noticed something interesting about Blazing Saddles .

If the first month of the year is any indication, 2012 should be a wild and wacky year for employers.

Directed by, co-written by, and starring comedy legend Mel Brooks, the movie "Spaceballs" pokes fun at "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Aliens", and other popular sci-fi/fantasy stories.

Psychiatrists are debating whether to add bereavement to the skyrocketing number of disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.

For a guy with so many plague-bringings, sea-splittings, and commandment-receivings to his name, Moses hasn't really had the big screen representation you might think he deserves.

The definitive look at the transition from silent films to talkies arrived courtesy of the 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain.

Looking to fight cabin fever? Purchase this Groupon to enjoy a classic comedy at the Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick.

So beautifully and affectionately does Hazanavicius and co. recreate the era and the aura of the Golden Age of Hollywood in this black and white wonder, that I felt like I was in an old revival movie house instead of the bland big box multiplex where I attended the screening.

Thirty years ago, if you wanted to see revival screenings of classics, the newest foreign films, cult movies and nuggets of regional and documentary cinema, there was only one theater in Nashville that showed them reliably - and it wasn't The Belcourt in Hillsboro Village, which was playing the likes of the Mel Brooks remake of To Be or Not To Be .

Everyone knows the name Hedy Lamarr; even Mel Brooks could get laughs from naming a character "Hedley Lamarr" in Blazing Saddles .