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That was usually the case with Mel Brooks, until he met one actor who ended up costing him a fortune. Already an experienced comic before he made his feature-length directorial debut on The Producers ...
New Yorker writer David Denby has come up with four names to essentially fashion a group biography around. He picked Mel ...
One afternoon, Brooks bumped into the actor, and it turned out that the admiration ran both ways. “Mel Brooks,” the North By ...
Few comedic legends have stood the test of time with the same amount of success as Mel Brooks. The multi-faceted legend has a slew of hits under his belt such as Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles and ...
In an interview on Conan O'Brien's podcast, Nathan Lane shared that Mel Brooks had originally envisioned Martin Short for the character of Leo Bloom, playing opposite Lane's Max Bialystock. Watch the ...
Conjure up images of Trump as Graham Chapman’s King Arthur romping across the land with his coconut-clapping fake horses, ...
The Producers” ended the first weekend of its month-long run at the Academy Theatre to exuberant applause, officials said.
Tim Matheson reflects on catching an in theater double feature of Stanley Kubrick's “Dr. Strangelove” and Mel Brooks' short ...
The 'Spaceballs' and 'Young Frankenstein' director is now one of four “PEGOT” winners Longtime EGOT honoree Mel Brooks just ...
When Melvin Kaminsky arrived in Europe with a field artillery unit, he thought he would be a radio operator. In need of combat engineers, though, the Army noticed the young private's military ...