Ask any studio executive who has ever worked with him: Mel Brooks is nothing if not tenacious in business. The comedy legend, who turns 95 Monday, is known to be relentless in pursuit of the ...

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Director Mel Brooks ... But the studio executives nixed the idea of him shooting it in black-and-white like the original films. “I said then the deal is broken,” noted Brooks.