Young Frankenstein

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

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 08.25.2009 | Entertainment


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."

Cindy Adams Wins $10,000 Bet From Harvey Weinstein

NY Post | Posted 01.08.2009 | Entertainment


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...

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

Alex Remington | Posted 11.20.2008 | Entertainment


Alex Remington

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

Mel Brooks "Young Frankenstein" Receives Cool Reviews

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


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...

Mel Brooks Faces Broadway Backlash

NY Post | Michael Riedel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


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...