Mel Brooks
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New Tesla Model S boasts 1,100hp and a range up to 840km
- Motors
- January 28, 2021, 11:49
Tesla has upgraded its long-running Model S luxury electric saloon, with more power but less steering wheel. The Model S, which has been around since(...)

Sporting upsets: Arcangues flies the flag for Europe in 1993 Breeders Cup
- Racing
- September 2, 2020, 06:00
The Breeders Cup is racing’s version of the Ryder Cup. It’s different in that it is annual but similar in how the rivalry only works if the Americans (...)

Steve Martin at 75: ‘The name Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr still makes me laugh’
- Film
- August 13, 2020, 06:00
He’s a master of slapstick, a surrealist clown, the don of comic film roles from Roxanne to The Jerk. As he turns 75, comics including Sarah Silverman(...)

Carl Reiner: An immense comedic talent who inspired generations of writers
- People
- July 4, 2020, 01:20
Born: March 20th, 1922 Died: June 29th, 2020 The screenwriter, actor and director Carl Reiner, who has died aged 98, was a man of remarkable talent a(...)

Canned air is no laughing matter
- Innovation
- March 26, 2020, 04:43
It seems to have started as a joke. Two friends decided to fill a small plastic bag with air from a hillside in Canada, and put it on eBay to sell for(...)

Mel Brooks: ‘I got friendship, love and free food. Free eats are very important’
- Film
- February 25, 2020, 06:04
Every evening, Mel Brooks leaves his home in Santa Monica, gets in his car and stares down Los Angeles’ notorious rush-hour traffic to go to Carl Rein(...)

Johnson’s rivals scrap for second place as frontrunner stays under cover
- UK
- June 17, 2019, 12:46
Ahead of Tuesday’s second round of voting by MPs in the Conservative leadership contest, five of the six remaining candidates faced a grilling from We(...)

Desiree Akhavan: ‘It’s very hard to come out as bisexual’
- Film
- September 6, 2018, 04:00
Forget the World Cup. Forget Harry and Meghan’s bash. Forget the insane extremes in weather that will ultimately probably kill us all. Twenty-eighteen(...)

Hotel Transylvania 3: Monstrously lucrative franchise takes another bite
- Film
- July 27, 2018, 05:00
By the time you read this, this third instalment of this monstrously successful trilogy will be tipping the franchise toward the $1 billion mark; not (...)

David Lynch: As a father and husband ‘you gotta be selfish’
- Film
- June 25, 2018, 10:03
David Lynch seldom smiles in photographs. His etched Easter Island statue of a face doesn’t glower so much as brood; lips pursed and eyes hooded, he l(...)