From the Archives: Comedian and Filmmaker Mel Brooks.

Actor Nicolas Cage. He starred in the David Lynch film "Wild At Heart," which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Cage has also starred in the films "Birdy," "Moonstruck," "Raising Arizona," "Peggy Sue Got Married," and "Honeymoon in Vegas." This year he is getting rave reviews for his performance in the new film about an alcoholic who goes to Las Vegas to drink himself to death, "Leaving Las Vegas." (REBROADCAST from 7/27/90)

Independent filmmaker Joseph Vasquez. His movie, "Hangin' With The Homeboys," was a semi autobiographical movie about Vasquez' home neighborhood in the South Bronx. He won a 1991 Sundance Film Festival award for the screenplay, which he wrote in three days. Vasquez died earlier this week of complications related to the AIDS virus. He had recently finished work on a new film, "Manhattan Meringue." (REBROADCAST from 6/17/91)