POTD: Mel Brooks and David Lynch Get Honorary Degrees From AFI

It's easy to overlook the fact that David Lynch's career is inexorably linked to Mel Brooks. The two men don't seem to have much in common. But when Lynch's first feature Eraserhead was on screens, one of Brooks' producers, Stuart Cornfeld, saw the film and recommended Lynch as someone to work with. That ended up leading to The Elephant Man, which landed Lynch a Best Director Oscar nomination and established ...

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