The musical adaptation of the film version of The Producers is one of Mel Brooks’ greatest successes, but the veteran comedian has revealed it nearly didn’t happen. He wasn’t sure his 1967 movie ...

The writer/director, whose latest film "The Alto Knights" arrives in theaters this month, looks back on the film that started his career and the abandoned television series it spawned. In 1983 ...

He paired with lifelong friend Carl Reiner to create genius works including The 2,000 Year Old Man, and Brooks co-created Get Smart, the spy spoof sitcom. But Mel Brooks, who recently turned 98 ...

Fifty years ago, The Times’ Charles Champlin spoke to Mel Brooks for the opening of his feature directing debut, “The Producers,” starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. In 2001, it would be ...

Last year, the Colorado Legislature voted to exempt itself from large portions of our beloved Open Meetings Law because, as Mel Brooks famously said, “It’s good to be the king.” It took them ...

Hollywood stars Tom Hanks, Mel Brooks, Michelle Pfeiffer and Barbra Streisand have led tributes to Gene Hackman following his death at the age of 95. The American actor, his wife, Betsy Arakawa ...

I don't know, but I find it sort of amusing." Levinson credits the existence of "Diner" the movie to an unlikely source: ...

The first major London revival of Mel Brooks’ musical adaptation of The Producers transfers to the Garrick Theatre following a sold-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Based on the classic cult ...

He lived a long life and left an amazing legacy. May he rest in peace.” Young Frankenstein director Mel Brooks wrote: “I was privileged to know Gene Hackman because he played tennis with ...

Then, at his busiest, with a wife and three children impatiently waiting at home, he wheedled Mel Brooks for a cameo in “Young Frankenstein.” Brooks hadn’t offered the town’s hippest brute ...

In Mel Brooks’ 1974 hit “Young Frankenstein,” he was hilarious in a cameo as a blind man who lights Peter Boyle’s thumb on fire. Three years later, he put his comic chops to work again as ...

That same year, Hackman also had a memorable cameo in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. The actor had heard about the horror comedy through tennis partner Gene Wilder, who co-wrote and stars as ...