Image Credit: Mel Brooks (Image: LA Times) Making comedy out of the darkest chapters of history isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
It isn’t possible to review The Producers as if one hadn’t heard the shrieks of joy emanating from New York at the time of its 2001 Broadway opening. Critics raved about how daring and funny the show ...
It’s surely the most insensitive, offensive film (1968) and then Broadway musical (2001) ever written, with Mel Brooks (book, music and lyrics) as chief creative offender and Thomas Meehan as his ...