Mel Brooks is the definition of an auteur, a filmmaker who has pioneered his own brand of comedy. And yet, he was forced into making one his most iconic scenes.

"The place just went to pieces," Matheson recalled of the reaction to Brooks' comment at a "To Be or Not to Be" wrap party.

A classic horror parody movie by a legend of the entertainment field will come to life on stage in Avon Players’ Young ...

Songwriter Tim Rice, whose credits include 'The Lion King' and 'Aladdin,' is making his return to animated features with 'The ...

Mel Brooks has truly witnessed Hollywood transform during his career, which he started in the late 1940s as a writer. By the 1960s, however, he had made his way to cinema, making his directorial debut ...

He doesn’t mention Mel Brooks’s “2000 Year Old Man” or “Young Frankenstein” but uses an off-color joke in “Blazing Saddles” to dismiss Brooks’s relentless low-comedy assault on ...

Unlike the Strachey volume, David Denby’s “Eminent Jews” has been written not to crush but to celebrate Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer and Leonard Bernstein. The celebration does ...

By this standard, David Denby succeeds marvelously in “Eminent Jews,” his portrait of four icons who defined American culture in the second half of the 20th century: the humorist Mel Brooks ...

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Though there was no shortage of Hamlet quotes in Mel Brooks's send-up of Shakespearean actors To Be or Not to Be, "Frailty, thy name is woman" was not one of them. Indeed, Brooks had an ...

"The place just went to pieces," Matheson recalled of the reaction to Brooks' comment at a "To Be or Not to Be" wrap party.