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2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 The Book

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ISBN-10: 0060929928

ISBN-13: 9780060929923

Edition: 1998

Authors: Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks

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The 2000 Year Old Man was actually born in 1950, when Carl Reiner bought a $138 Revere tape recorder, plugged in the microphone, and instead of saying, "Testing, testing," turned to Mel Brooks and asked, "Is it true that you were at the scene of the Crucifixion some 2000 years ago?" As Brooks' imagination took flight, the old man uttered his first remembrance of things past with a moan of "Oooooooohboy." And then: "I knew Christ, Christ was a thin lad, always wore sandals. Hung around with 12 other guys. They came in the store, no one ever bought anything. Once they asked for water." Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks ad-libbed their first interviews between the miraculous ancient sage and the…    
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Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/7/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.36" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

SAM WASSON is the author of A Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards and the New York Times-bestseller Fifth Avenue, 5AM: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman. He is working on a biography of Bob Fosse. MEL BROOKS is a writer, director, actor, and composer. He won an Academy Award for The Producers for best original screenplay.