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Mel Brooks regularly gets letters from high school students. They're not asking questions about the 83-year-old director's classic comedy movies such as "Blazing Saddles," "The Producers" and "Young Frankenstein." What's caught their attention is a comedy routine Brooks and Carl Reiner have performed for 50 years: "The 2000 Year Old Man." The young ...

For Nathan Lane, the fall of 2003 in Chicago was the happiest of times. The out-of-town tryout of Mel Brooks' "The Producers," which starred Lane and Matthew Broderick as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, was greeted by cheering audiences right from the first public performance.

In the "Seinfeld" reunion set to air Sunday on " Curb Your Enthusiasm " Jerry Seinfeld acknowledges the chatter that his show's grand finale 11 years ago didn't live up to expectations.

Actor Zero Mostel was one of Broadway's giants. Not only because of his generous girth, but for his immense talent onstage.

Chicago ha sido bendecida con buenas obras de Broadway esta temporada. Tiene para escoger entre clasicos de Broadway, shows con estrellas, nuevos shows de Broadway que se estrenan en Chicago y algunos estrenos mundiales de Broadway en la Ciudad de los Vientos.

"THE 2,000 YEAR OLD MAN" was never intended to last one year, let alone 60. In the early 1950s, friends and fellow comedy writers Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks started doing the routine at parties: Reiner would play the interviewer and straight man, asking Brooks a series of questions that he would answer as the world's oldest man.

Like relics from a simpler time, two new comedy albums showed up on my desk this week: Artie Lange's Jack and Coke , a switchblade-vicious assault from Howard Stern's sidekick; and The 2000 Year Old Man: The Complete History , a deluxe packaging of Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks' classic bit.

A first trip into the world of solo-dom can present certain hazards for a singer in a successful rock and roll band - expectations run high and questions run deep.

Scrappy Hilary Swank stars in an Amelia Earhart biopic grounded by conventional storytelling and hokey dialogue.

Il Divo is a fantastic biopic on the most exciting times of Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti.

Zach Gilford established himself as an up-and-coming actor on the much-lauded NBC series Friday Night Lights.

The Weyenberg Library is pleased to present a musical film series, featuring some of Broadway's biggest hits on the big screen.

Peter Wooley graduated from East Liverpool high school "when the world was in black and white." After graduating, Wooley joined the Navy and after that he attended Kent State University in East Liverpool to study architecture.

Green Bay native Anne Horak, playing the female lead in the touring production of 'The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein,' is appearing through Dec.

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'I wanna be a Producer...' That's what everyone will be singing after experiencing the EPAC Repertory Company's production of Mel Brooks' 12-time Tony Award winning hit The Producers.

Bill Shepard, a casting director who worked for Walt Disney Studios and director Mel Brooks, died Sept.

Maybe only in a Mel Brooks comedy, Shuler Hensley said. "You've got this grotesque, larger-than-life creature," the actor who plays said creature in the touring production of the musical Young Frankenstein said, "and he's pretty much the straight man." Even better? "Because of the script, the straighter you try to play it against the obvious ...

Your email has been sent. Thanks for recommending The Daily Beast! Everett Collection Where has all the ugly gone? The Daily Beast's Simon Doonan praises the Young Frankenstein star for his magnificent hideousness.

Old-fashioned musical comedy is on shamelessly suggestive display in Young Frankenstein.