Young Frankenstein

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

Jim Luce | Posted 02.12.2012

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.

Genre Spoofs: Imitation Is the Best Form of Flattery

George Heymont | Posted 06.11.2011

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.

Big Brother 12: I, Boobiac!

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

First Nighter: Thoroughly Entertaining Sutton Foster

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

Q & A With Mel Brooks by Tom Teicholz

Tom Teicholz | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

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

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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...