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Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, filmmaker, comedian, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 22 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and an Honorary Academy Award in 2024.

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Stripes is a 1981 American action comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P. J. Soles, Sean Young, and John Candy. Ramis wrote the film with Len Blum and Dan Goldberg, the latter of whom also served as producer alongside Reitman. It tells the story of an immature taxi cab driver and his teacher friend who enlist in the United States Army with comical results. Numerous actors, including John Larroquette, John Diehl, Conrad Dunn, Judge Reinhold, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Timothy Busfield, and Bill Paxton, appear in the film in some of the earliest roles of their careers. The film’s score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, and was a commercial success.

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Canadian Borg

Pineapple Blade

Clearing the Pollen Off the Driveway

NCC-1957

One Acorn Too Many!

Speed Limit

On One Hand

Schrodinger’s Data

All we had to do was run A.I.

Beep Beep

…seems a little greedy!

It’s HOW Hot Outside!?!?!

4th of July

The Letter “F”

Get In Loser!

Happy 100th Birthday Mel Brooks!

Strange?

45th Anniversary of Stripes

Ass in the Air! (overloaded)

How icemakers really work!

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