“Alan, I’ve been thinking,” says Mel Brooks, “and I may not be able to do this.” Alan Yentob has been waiting patiently for a tardy Brooks to arrive in his own office for this Imagine . . . interview. And when he does arrive, the 91-year-old wants to cancel. “Listen. You did a documentary on Orson Welles. And then he died. And then Arthur Miller . . . and then he died. Stanley Kubrick . . . and he died. Alan, you’re just not good luck.”
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AARON HILL’S NOTEBOOK 