{"id":151763,"date":"2024-01-10T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T19:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=151763"},"modified":"2024-01-10T14:49:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T19:49:19","slug":"mel-brooks-gets-another-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=151763","title":{"rendered":"Mel Brooks gets another Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_151764\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151764\" style=\"width: 461px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-151764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mel-brooks-wins-640x480-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mel-brooks-wins-640x480-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mel-brooks-wins-640x480-1-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mel-brooks-wins-640x480-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mel-brooks-wins-640x480-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US actor Mel Brooks (2nd L) accepts the Academy Honorary Award during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8217; 14th Annual Governors Awards at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles on January 9, 2024. (Photo by Robyn BECK \/ AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When I saw Mel Brooks&#8217; name pop up in my news feed, I immediately assumed that we&#8217;d lost the comedy legend. At 97 years old, it&#8217;s not an improper conclusion to draw. Fortunately for us all, Mel is still alive and kicking, and winning awards! The king of non-PC comedy only ever got one Oscar in a competitive category, more than 50 years ago for the classic &#8220;The Producers.&#8221; On Tuesday this week he got another one, this time for lifetime achievement. As Breitbart points out, he&#8217;s already in the very small group of entertainers to have received an &#8220;EGOT&#8221;, which is winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and a Tony award. This signifies excellence in TV, film, music, and on the stage. Only 18 people have an EGOT in competitive categories (such as Mel) and another six make the list with the inclusion of honorary or lifetime achievement awards.<\/p>\n<p>Mel is also a veteran of the US Army from World War II. Unlike many entertainers who became celebrities after the war, Mel&#8217;s service during the war was not in a film or USO-type special services unit. He was an artillery observer and combat engineer during the Battle of the Bulge and then across the Rhine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2024\/01\/10\/comedy-legend-mel-brooks-blazing-saddles-director-receives-lifetime-achievement-oscar\/\">Breitbart has the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw Mel Brooks&#8217; name pop up in my news feed, I immediately assumed that &hellip; <a title=\"Mel Brooks gets another Oscar\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=151763\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mel Brooks gets another Oscar<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":151764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,410,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army","category-bravo-zulu","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}