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  2. Mel Brooks - Wikipedia

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    Brooks was born Melvin James Kaminsky [3] on a tenement kitchen table on June 28, 1926, in Brownsville, Brooklyn, [4] to Kate (née Brookman) and Max Kaminsky, [5] and grew up in Williamsburg. His father's family were German Jews from Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland); his mother was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant from Kyiv , in the Pale of Settlement of ...

  3. Review: In memoir, it's good to be comedy king Mel Brooks - AOL

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    The entertainment world was an escape for Melvin Kaminsky, the youngest of four brothers whose father died when Melvin was 2 and whose mother worked hard to get enough pennies for a movie ticket.

  4. The Twelve Chairs (1970 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Twelve Chairs is a 1970 American comedy film directed and written by Mel Brooks, and starring Frank Langella, Ron Moody and Dom DeLuise. The film is one of at least eighteen film adaptations of the Soviet 1928 novel The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov .

  5. The Thirteen Chairs - Wikipedia

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    The film was released through rental only by Force Video in 1986 under the Thirteen Chairs title, and again a year later by Continental Video, under the original 12 + 1 title. On 12 March 2008, the film was released on DVD in Italy by 01 Distribution. This version is in Italian, lacks English subtitles, and does not include an English audio track.

  6. List of Jewish American entertainers - Wikipedia

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    Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky, 1911–1987), film actor, singer and comedian [496] Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Kiesler , 1914–2000), actress, invented early form of spread spectrum communications technology, a key to modern wireless communication

  7. Lyapis Trubetskoy - Wikipedia

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    Lyapis Trubetskoy (Russian: Ляпис Трубецкой, Belarusian: Ляпіс Трубяцкі) is a Belarusian rock band. [1] It was named after the comical hero from Ilya Ilf's and Yevgeny Petrov's novel "The Twelve Chairs", poet and potboiler Nikifor Lyapis, who used the pseudonym Trubetskoy.

  8. The Twelve Chairs (1976 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Twelve Chairs (Russian: 12 стульев) is a 1976 four-episode musical television film directed by Mark Zakharov based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Ilf and Petrov. [1] It is the second full length adaptation of the novel in the Soviet Union (the first was directed by Leonid Gaidai [2]) and is the sixth one in the world.

  9. 'The Voice:' 15-year-old turns all 4 chairs in seconds

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    Season eight of "The Voice" is officially here. And if Monday night's premiere was any indication, we're in for one heck of a cutthroat season. Case in point: 15-year-old Sawyer Fredericks. His ...