Peter Bogdanovich talks about Leo McCarey

Peter also talks about Buster Keaton.

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• brooks
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• capra
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[kiasmus]

The funny costumes, the poise, the stardust memories. Altman, Bogdanovich, the very Frank Capra... The stuff dreams are made of. The great old Hollywood and the one that could not be. A world lost for ever, sunk in an ocean of cheap money and all-embracing vulgarity.

[acmedressform]

capra, altman, bogdonavich, brooks all chatting, boy those were the days. I like how they're all chatting in a very relaxed manner, these days when 2 famous people are on a talk show only one speaks, the other never interrupts, it's like famous people act like they're royalty nowadays.

[mooneepondskid]

@AStopMotionChannel  Don't forget Mel was in tv before film,both as a writer and a performer.

[p25735]

@NGS712 It's because everyone (especially younger folks) in today's society all have ADD. They require constant sensual bombardment, or they'll change the station. And back then, there were only a handful of stations. Now, there are hundreds of channels of gold plated crap they can change to.

[p25735]

@JMoruzzi Cavett was on ABC the same time as Carson who was on NBC. However, I'm not certain whether it started the same time or a half hour later. I was very young at the time.

[karlakor]

I wish I could remember who it was, but someone in show business once told Groucho Marx that Bugs Bunny started out as an imitator of Groucho, his carrot being a substitute for Groucho's cigar, etc. Groucho, upon hearing this, exclaimed, "I'll sue him!" The anecdote is in Charlotte Chandler's book, "Hello, I Must Be Going".

[tuxguys]

Notice Altman's comment at 2:10 "Now we're making movies that imitate cartoons," or something to that effect.

His film "Popeye" was less than ten years in the future from the night this show aired.

[zachromero]

holy shit, maybe the most talent on one stage at once.

[kolst8406]

@AStopMotionChannel This is January 21st, 1972, two years before Blazing Saddles.

[guinnesstrail]

Frank Capra's take on the cartoon as talkie's co-conspirator in the demise of the silent film or the silent film's gesture is such an insight. The again, I read that Bugs Bunny was mistreated by Keaton during Bugs' salad days and would hire him for fear of being upstaged! On the other hand, I don't believe a word of it--Bugs would never stoop to such showbizzy bitchiness; he was above all that, in spite of Elmer Fudd's contwawy opinion in that wondewful autobiogwaphy--Witten By Own Hand.

[johnnycheck99]

Mel Brooks seems like a genuinely nice guy- is he appreciated in the States ?

[AStopMotionChannel]

When this interview was done, which movies has Mel Brooks made? I know he already did The Producers and The Twelve Chairs, but has he made Blazing Saddles yet?