Mel Brooks tells David Bianculli about the late Madeline Kahn:
I’m in tears thinking about Madeline. And what an incredibly gifted gift from god, Madeline Kahn. The funniest and most talented comedienne I think, including people like Carol Burnett who are great, you know, and Gilda Radner who was magnificent, but nobody — listen to me, David Bianculli — nobody could approach the magnificence and wonder of Madeline Kahn. She was really a great gift to us all. … I saw art [in her], not just funny. But I saw a person who was gifted with art. She’s the only one who actually could have worked in opera as an opera singer, as a coloratura. She was that talented or I think she could have worked as a longshoreman in New Jersey. I don’t think there’s anything that Madeline Kahn couldn’t do.”
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![Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
Carrie Preston, The Good Wife. No show casts guest stars quite like the CBS legal drama. Fellow Wife guest Martha Plimpton won last year, and Preston’s brilliant take as the quirky redheaded lawyer Elsbeth Tascioni deserves recognition too. She flawlessly balances Elsbeth’s genius with her crazy, giving Wife some of its best one-liners (”I don’t know how I know half the things I know!”) and scene-stealing moments.
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