![]() ![]() The carpets are busy, and the place is packed with office Christmas parties I can hardly hear myself speak, let alone catch Brooks's hammy burr. So we have come round the corner to this less swanky establishment. Mel, and Mel's people, had hoped to bag a table at the Savoy Grill. At the other end, there is his delightful enjoyment of this room, in Simpson's, an ancient restaurant on the Strand, where we are trying - and just about succeeding - to have lunch together. At one end of the scale, there is his determination to keep working and talking and travelling, even though it is still only six months since his wife of more than 40 years, Anne Bancroft, died of cancer. His old-fashioned trouper qualities manifest themselves in all sorts of ways. This means he always gets on with the job, come sleet or snow, a goonish smile slathered across his face (even if, in some lights, the smile does look more like a grimace). To slip briefly into luvvie parlance, Mel Brooks is what is known as a trouper.
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