Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson

Or
God bless you please, Mrs. Robinson
(Monty with the variation on the theme)

Or
Are you trying to depress me, Mrs. Robinson?

Or
Anne Bancroft: Tomb Raider
(In a shameless rip-off of myself)

Or
To Not Be
Anne Bancroft, who told us 25 years ago that love is the cure for obesity in her solo directorial effort Fatso, which she also wrote, has died at the age of 73. Bancroft is best remembered for her iconic portrayal of the original MILF, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, as well as her stage and screen portrayals of Annie Robinson in The Miracle Worker, for which she won the 1960 Tony Award and the 1963 Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won the Tony in 1958 for Two for the Seesaw and won a 1999 Emmy for a Deep in My Heart, one of only 15 performers to complete the hat trick. Other roles included Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel in Golda, winning another Tony nomination, Nick Cage’s mother in Honeymoon in Vegas, the loony Miss Havisham-wannabe in the updated Great Expectations. Her early career was noted by roles in such dreck as Gorilla at Large, of which she said “I played the title role,” showing a sense of humor to match Mel Brooks, her husband of 40 years. Bancroft and Brooks co-starred in the comic farce in To Be Or Not to Be. Brooks also found work for her as an uncredited extra in Blazing Saddles, as herself in Silent Movie and as Madame Ouspenskaya in Dracula: Dead and Loving It.