• Mel Brooks was the uncredited executive producer of the 1982 Peter O’Toole film “My Favorite Year,” which was based on Brooks’ experiences as a writer for Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows.”

• Among the many song standards of the 1930s introduced by Fred Astaire were “Cheek to Cheek,” “A Fine Romance,” “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” and “Night and Day.”

“The Tonight Show” and “The Today Show” were both created in the 1950s by an NBC executive who was the father of:

A) Actress Sigourney Weaver

B) Soccer star Mia Hamm

C) Singer Britney Spears

D) Author Danielle Steel

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