Tribute to Dom DeLuise! Double Feature: THE TWELVE CHAIRS & FATSO October 17, 2010

Tribute to Dom DeLuise! Double Feature: THE TWELVE CHAIRS, 1970, Brooksfilms Limited, 94 min. Brooks' second film as director is a handsomely mounted period piece, but the classical source and lush location photography doesn't get in the way of the laughs! Ron Moody plays an impoverished Russian aristocrat in search of a dining chair with jewels hidden in the seat, and Dom DeLuise is his rival in pursuit of the treasure.
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FATSO, 1980, 20th Century Fox, 93 min. Dir. Anne Bancroft. Overweight Dominick (Dom DeLuise) gets a scare when his obese cousin dies from a heart attack. Convinced by his brother to go on a diet, Dominick starts to feel the pressures of giving up the ol' hot dogs and doughnuts. But then he meets the lovely Lydia (Candice Azzara) and is forced to pick his one true love: food, or the woman of his dreams? Introduction by Mel Brooks (schedule permitting) and the DeLuise family.
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