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Mel Brooks's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs

2009 Kennedy Center Honors

Born June 28, 1926

The Collaborative Builder

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor.

In the record

Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, film director, songwriter and playwright. The birth-card coordinate for June 28 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Mel Brooks's 2009 Kennedy Center Honors.

Kennedy Center Honors record

Mel Brooks is on the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors roster as Mel Brooks (https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/). Mel Brooks (Q104266, Wikipedia “Mel Brooks”) appears here as a person-scope honoree. Mel Brooks is listed as a person-scope honoree for each year in this pack. Honors in this pack for Mel Brooks: 2009 Mel Brooks. Mel Brooks's English Wikipedia title is the same string as the harvested name. Birth date 1926-06-28 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Mel Brooks, verified against Wikidata P569 1926-06-28 (match). Kennedy Center artist-bio date status for Mel Brooks is unavailable. The harvested card symbol for June 28 is 2♣. No day-precision Wikidata P570 death date is stored on this page for Mel Brooks. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Brooks is the Wikipedia article used for Mel Brooks. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Mel Brooks. It only names the calendar coordinate for June 28 and the Honors years already listed for Mel Brooks.

The 2 of Clubs coordinate

Mel Brooks was born June 28, 1926 (1926-06-28). Month 6 and day 28 give solar value 15, which is the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1926 is unused, so Mel Brooks's 1926 birth year does not move the card. The 2 of Clubs does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor and is not a verdict on Mel Brooks. Quoted system copy for the 2 of Clubs, not a biography of Mel Brooks: You think best with someone else in the room, and you still leave with a position of your own. You think best with others. Ideas solidify when you talk them through. You're the debater, the collaborator, the one who makes partnerships work through communication. Harvested gifts listed for the 2 of Clubs: Natural partnership and team-building ability; Excellent communication and articulation; Ability to synthesize different perspectives; Talent for collaborative problem-solving. Harvested life-direction line for the 2 of Clubs: Your curriculum is learning that true collaboration requires two distinct thinkers, not one chameleon. You're learning to have your own perspective and keep it.

Live 2 of Clubs meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, comedian, film director, songwriter and playwright. With a career spanning nine decades, he is known for a variety of successful farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of the few people to win the EGOT. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016 and a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017.

Mel Brooks in the public record

With a career spanning nine decades, he is known for a variety of successful farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of the few people to win the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony). He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016 and a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017. Brooks began his career as a writer for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, where he worked with Mel Tolkin, Neil Simon and Carl Reiner. Reiner and Brooks co-created the comedy sketch The 2000 Year Old Man and shared the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000. With Buck Henry, he created the spy spoof Get Smart. Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers (1967). After The Twelve Chairs (1970), he made a string of successful comedies: Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein (both 1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981) and Spaceballs (1987).

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Mel Brooks (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the King of Diamonds

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Mel Brooks, and not a forecast of an honor.

Cards in Mel Brooks's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

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K♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement, fixed to the 2♣, from the published King of Diamonds meaning

Brooks began his career as a writer for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, where he worked with Mel Tolkin, Neil Simon and Carl Reiner.

Paired on shared wording: show, worked.

Also on the record

  1. His musical adaptation of The Producers ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007 and won 12 Tony Awards.
  2. It was adapted as a film in 2005.
  3. Through his company, Brooksfilms, he produced David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980), David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986) and David Jones's 84 Charing Cross Road (1987).
  4. With Anne Bancroft, he starred in To Be or Not To Be (1983), a remake of Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 film.

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FAQ

What is Mel Brooks's birth card?
The 2 of Clubs. June 28 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Mel Brooks's year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict a Kennedy Center Honor?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
Where do Mel Brooks's dates and Honors credits come from?
Birth date 1926-06-28 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Mel Brooks, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Honoree identity comes from the Wikipedia Kennedy Center Honors roster, which cites Kennedy Center pages. The Honors line is 2009 Kennedy Center Honors. Kennedy Center artist-bio date status is unavailable. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Kennedy Center (honors record, kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Honors roster, Mel Brooks) + Wikidata CC0 (Q104266). Birth date 1926-06-28 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).