Mel Brooks Quotes
Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
Crick, Robert A., editor. Mel Brooks: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, 2007, p. 33.
Allen had contributed $350,000 to the Conservative Party in 1872—an enormous sum for the day. This telegram was "leaked" to the newspapers and lead to the fall ot the MacDonald government in what was called the "Pacific Scandal." In addition to the influence of money issue, the Canadian political situation was further complicated by the fact that Allen had American business partners, and Canadians suspected these campaign contribution brought the Canadian government under "foreign" influence and control.
The military had made a mess of the Argentine economy and inflation was rampant. Some Argentines turned their Argentine pesos into dollars betting that the Argentine economic situation would get worse, This run from the peso would make it worse. If Argentina stabilized the peso, speculators in dollars would lose money. The Minister trying to discourage a run from the peso, warned Argentinians against the dollar investment. A days later the dollar went up over 30%. Those who had listened to the minister lost much of their money, He was soon forced to resign by the military dictators who controlled the government.
Mel Brooks is an American director, writer, actor, comedian, producer, and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows (1950–1954) alongside Woody Allen, Neil Simon, and Larry Gelbart. Together with Carl Reiner, he created the comic character The 2000 Year Old Man. He wrote, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970.
