Mr. Edelman's introduction to corporate PR came when he was pitching the young Mel Torme to DJs.

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Mr. Nolen is properly monstrous, Mr. Williams unyieldingly blunt, and Glenn Gover, who plays a writer based on the young Mel Brooks, comes on so strong that you'll feel like you've stepped into a wind tunnel.

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You, you're young and tough, like Mel a few decades back.

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"Mel's only priority throughout all of this has been that the best interests of his young daughter Lucia and the rest of his children be put first in any decisions made, " Berk said in a statement earlier in the week.

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The movie, which was written by Gary Young and directed by Daniel Barber, is derivative of revenge films starring Charles Bronson, Mel Gibson, and Clint Eastwood, though Michael Caine, at the age of seventy-seven, is extraordinary.

NEWYORKER: Harry Brown