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 ...

Comedy has developed enormously since the early days of cinema, and Mel Brooks has been around long enough to watch these rapid changes, having started his career in the industry in 1949. He was born ...

Denby begins with Mel Brooks, who had a hard time finding the comic genius that eventually resulted ... moving frenetically between pop (“West Side Story”) and classical music (“Symphony No. 3, ...

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 ...

"[Mel Brooks] said, 'I'm working on a musical based on my movie The Producers, and I think you and Marty Short are the only two people in the world to play those parts,'" Lane recalled ...

Garth Brooks has broken his silence after songwriter Larry Bastian, who worked with the country star on hit songs like “Rodeo ...

The Highland Arts Theatre is closing its winter/spring season with the hit Mel Brooks musical comedy “The Producers.” ...

Connecticut Theatre Company will present 'The Producers' running May 2nd through May 11th at the Repertory Theatre in New ...

The evidence is anecdotal, but psychologists and flight attendants say they’ve seen and heard increased worries about flying.

Patricia Resnick was born with an insatiable desire to be in show business, and she became a successful writer and producer ...

1974 was a good year for one of the greatest comedy pairings in cinema history, with Mel Brooks ... Brooks was a double-Oscar nominee in 1975, earning bids for Best Original Song (shared) for ...

Sample lyrics: Mel Brooks’ 1974 hit Young Frankenstein was still playing in theaters through 1975 ... It’s a classic stage routine in a classic movie that became a part of classic rock — and later ...