Young Frankenstein

Intense, Ironic, Iconic: Hahn-Bin Takes Joe's Pub at The Public

Jim Luce | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Hahn-Bin, East Village, Joe?S Pub, Korean-Americans, Joseph Papp, Amadeus, Young Frankenstein, Jim Luce, Peter Samelson, Music, Astor Library Building, The Public Theater, Itzhak Perlman, Carnegie Hall, John Blacklow, Arts News
Jim Luce

Hahn-Bin is the ultimate perfectionist. The theater manager confided to me the musician had arrived ten hours before the concert to prepare -- to get everything just right. And just right it was.

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Genre Spoofs: Imitation Is the Best Form of Flattery

George Heymont | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Charley?S Angels, Chiller Theater, The Lost Skeleton Returns Again, Larry Blamire, Young Frankenstein, Chico?S Angels, Mel Brooks, Gang of Chicas, Bride of Frankenstein, Mail Order Bride of Frankenstein, Zacherley, Entertainment News
George Heymont

No cliché is left behind in this hilarious black-and-white romp, whose cheesy script focuses on a bitter, depressed scientist's search for Geranium-90 in the deepest heart of the Amazon jungle.

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Big Brother 12: I, Boobiac!

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reality TV, Ozymandias, Little Orphan Annie, The Other Guys, Julie Chen, Shelley, Mark Wahlberg, Big Brother 12 Episode 13, Big Brother 12 Episode 11, Spice Girls, Cbs, Big Brother 12, Will Ferrell, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Young Frankenstein, The Mouseketeers, Big Brother 12 Episode 12, Caligula's Horse, Caligula, Bobby Burgess, Big Brother, Entertainment News
Tallulah Morehead

Captain Kosher's parting shots last week set off dynamite in Rachel, aka Boobiac, which detonated in Kristen's face the moment Boobiac won HOH a second time, thus demonstrating that she is the Empress Caligulotta.

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First Nighter: Thoroughly Entertaining Sutton Foster

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Finkle

If you had to pinpoint the leading leading-lady in musicals today, you'd have to say there's no contest: It's Sutton Foster.

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Q & A With Mel Brooks by Tom Teicholz

Tom Teicholz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blazing Saddles, " "Spaceballs, The 2000 Year Old Man, Larry Gelbart, Mel Tolkin, " President Obama, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, "Young Frankenstein, Carl Reiner, Neal Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News
Tom Teicholz

[This interview originally appeared in print in The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles in the issue dated Feb 26- March 4, 2010. Go to www.JewishJournal.co...

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2,000+ Words for the 2,000 Year Old Man: Mel Brooks Is Saluted by the Academy

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gregory Weinkauf

Cloris Leachman aptly put it, "There is much that is serious about Mel Brooks. Inside that rapid-fire humor machine is a man with deep emotions, with a great capacity to care, and to love."

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Cindy Adams Wins $10,000 Bet From Harvey Weinstein

NY Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cindy Adams, Young Frankenstein, Harvey Weinstein, Entertainment News

Harvey Weinstein sure bets a lot. From the end of Cindy Adams' column in Monday's NY Post: Nov. 8, 2007, Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" opened. In...

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Freakazoid! This Weekday Afternoon Cartoon is Better Than You Remembered.

Alex Remington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freakazoid, Paul Rugg, Steven Spielberg, Jerry Lewis, Tom Ruegger, Marty Feldman, Looney Tunes, Warner Brothers, Amblin Entertainment, Comedy, Animaniacs, Animation, Freakazoid!, Referential Comedy, The Simpsons, Meta Humor, The Tick, Family Guy, Young Frankenstein, Tiny Toons, Entertainment News
Alex Remington

Stylistically somewhere between the great superhero parody The Tick and Marx Brothers-style vaudeville, Freakazoid! was absurd, nonsensical, but absolutely hilarious.

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Mel Brooks "Young Frankenstein" Receives Cool Reviews

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Is the $20 million stage version of "Young Frankenstein" a monster hit or miss? Most New York critics were decidedly cool to the new Mel Brooks music...

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Mel Brooks Faces Broadway Backlash

NY Post | Michael Riedel | Posted 05.25.2011

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THE knives are out for Mel. On the eve of the first preview of "Young Frankenstein," a growing chorus of theater people, their hearts as black as nig...

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