The Anne Bancroft/Mel Brooks marriage was legendary. Fourteen years after her death, Brooks wants the world to remember what a great actress she was.
Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft really meant it. And 14 years after her death, Brooks still means it.
“They were playing ‘The Graduate’ on television,” he said in a recent telephone interview, “and I thought it was really good and that there were so many things she had done that were not as well known.” Stories abound of the couple’s devotion, most of them funny. Here is one I have heard: In 1989, when Bancroft was starring in “The Mystery of the Rose Bouquet” at the Mark Taper, Brooks called Gordon Davidson, then the Taper’s artistic director. “Gordon,” he said, “do you know what a Taurus is?” “Um, a sign in the zodiac?” Davidson guessed. “No, a Taurus is a car made by the Ford Motor Company, and if you send one to pick up my wife ever again, she’s out of the play.
“One time,” he says now, “we went out for Chinese and the bill was like 12 bucks. She slips me a 20 and I, because you know I’m Mel Brooks, I say ‘keep the change.’ When we walk outside, she slaps me and says “are you crazy? Tipping eight bucks on 12-buck check? That’s my money!’”
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