Bancroft

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“With roughly 4,000 in the U.S. arsenal, that level of usage underscores the likelihood of increased replenishment, production, and defense spending going forward,” Bancroft wrote.

From MarketWatch

It’s also as a love story, or stories: that of Brooks and second wife Anne Bancroft; of Brooks and best friend and double-act partner Carl Reiner; of the love of the audience for the work, and the love between characters in the work, which might not always be obvious but is clear to Brooks.

From Los Angeles Times

Time, inevitably, is a subject of such a film, and though mortality isn’t specifically on the agenda, many people seen here are no longer alive — not just Brooks’ peers, who are all gone, and Bancroft, who died in 2005, but David Lynch, whom Brooks hired to direct “The Elephant Man,” and Rob Reiner, who has a funny story about meeting him as a child.

From Los Angeles Times

When he met his future second wife in 1961 — or rather, shouted “Anne Bancroft! I’m Mel Brooks!” from out in the theater where he first saw her rehearsing for a TV broadcast, then proceeded to follow her around for days — he was completely broke.

From Los Angeles Times

“I was in love with him instantly,” Bancroft said, “because he looked like my father, and he acted like my mother.”

From Los Angeles Times