Mel Brooks reminisced about his longtime pal and collaborator Gene Wilder on “The Tonight Show” Tuesday night, and he didn’t disappoint. In an interview with host Jimmy Fallon, Brooks recalled the time he turned Wilder, who died Sunday at age 83, into a blubbering mess of gratefulness. So Brooks promised the young actor that he would play Leo Bloom ― the movie’s mousy accountant who conspires to make a Broadway flop ― just as soon as he rounded up the financing. You are Leo Bloom.’ And I threw [the script] on his makeup table and he burst into tears and held his face and cried. And be sure to watch out for Brooks’ impromptu Hitler comb salute.

Source: Huffington Post August 31, 2016 10:30 UTC