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  Q&A: Mel Brooks, 95, is still riffing

  Leave it to Mel Brooks to blurb his own memoir

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  Mel Brooks announces his first memoir at the age of 95

  Mel Brooks announces his first memoir at the age of 95. All About Me!, to be published on 30 November, will cover everything from the film director’s military service to his long comedic partnership with Carl Reiner

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  Charles Webb: ‘The Graduate’ author who ended up living in poverty

  With its Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack, mordant dialogue and bursts of sexual tension, The Graduate was a generational touchstone, launching the movie career of Dustin Hoffman, earning director Mike Nichols an Oscar and turning a character’s one-word piece of career advice – “plastics” – into a punchline.Based on a novel by Charles Webb, who has died aged 81, the 1967 film foreshadowed Hollywood’s turn towards a more youthful audience and made more than $100m at the box office, drawing rave revie

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  Charles Webb, novelist who found fame, if not fortune, with his novel The Graduate – obituary

  Charles Webb, who has died aged 81, was the author of The Graduate, the 1962 novel that became Mike Nichols’s era-defining film of the same name. Starring Dustin Hoffman as the disaffected graduate and Anne Bancroft as the older woman who seduces him, the film crackled with sexual tension and assaulted the materialist values of white middle-class America while taking $100m at the box office. The book sold respectably for a first novel, but it was the film that propelled its hero, Benjamin Braddo

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  Anne Bancroft obituary

  Anne Bancroft obituary

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  Buck Henry obituary

  Buck Henry obituaryActor and screenwriter who was one of the architects of American comedy

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  17 times films had ridiculous age gaps between their cast

  Age gaps, both real and fictional, are a well-worn subject in Hollywood. Whether it’s Leonardo DiCaprio being spotted with his latest twenty-something model girlfriend or controversy over the double standards for male and female actors, the film industry has a major issue with age.When it recently emerged that Keanu Reeves, 55, is dating artist Alexandra Grant, 46, there was a frenzy over the fact that they are of similar ages. It was, many believed, a sad confirmation of how famous men so rarel

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  ‘National Unity’: the fantasy flick that will never make it out of development

  Everyone has a pitch – but whether it’s Caroline Lucas’s all-female reboot or Jo Swinson’s Ken Clarke vehicle, they’re duds. Three years on from the Brexit vote, what best crystallises where we are? Perhaps that nowhere even close to 326 politicians can unify on what would constitute a government of national unity. The Liberal Democrats will do anything to stop Brexit, except for the things they won’t; Labour would love to stop the Tories’ version of Brexit, but first they just want to look busy

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  Digital Spy

  What/If creator talks Renée Zellweger's "powerful" character

  "She was born out of my slightly unhealthy obsession with all things Mrs Robinson."

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  Matthew McConaughey’s mother pitches remake of The Graduate

  The 1967 film famously starred Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft as his older lover.

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