Sadly life intervened in the meantime.
One of his best lines was aimed at Bassett, but not in a mean-spirited way.
Heres how great an actress Angela Bassett is: she got an Oscar nomination for a Marvel movie.
From left: Carol Littleton, Mel Brooks, Angela Bassett and Michelle Satter at the 14th Governors AwardsAMPAS
Thats like getting a Pulitzer Prize for a Reddit comment.
This is for both of us, she said knowing he certainly knew about it for several months.
Among voices heard lauding her was Steven Spielberg for whom she editedE.T.
John Mulaneyat the 14th Governors Awards
She hadnt read it yet.I am gonna need my glasses for this, she laughed.
She ran her hands down the Oscar and told me her late mother would have loved this moment.
She always took me to the movies.
We would sit through four in a row sometimes.
She loved the movies.
We are all your children.
We love you, she said.
Okay, he said.
Let me know when you get there.
She added a lesson she learned from that: When someone says yes , stop talking.
But everyone can look on the bright side: there are exactly only two months until Oscar night.
It was truly a golden night.
