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 ...

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 ...

Comedy icon Mel Brooks worked with a cavalcade of Hollywood’s funniest ... The next thing Brooks knew, Hackman donned a wig and fake beard on the Young Frankenstein set. He proceeded to nail his cameo ...

Hackman played a lonely old hermit, who was so unrecognizable under his beard that “nobody knew the blind man was Gene Hackman until they saw his name at the end of the credits.” (L-R) Teri Garr, ...

Mel Brooks (L) and Gene Wilder go over a scene ... Hackman played a lonely old hermit, who was so unrecognizable under his beard that "nobody knew the blind man was Gene Hackman until they saw ...

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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 ...

Mel Gibson lashed out at California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday as he threw his weight behind an attempt to recall the politician. Gibson, 69, lambasted the 57-year-old Democrat at a press ...

During the 1970s, he had a leading role in The Poseidon Adventure as the brave Reverend Frank Scott and a memorable cameo as the blind man in Mel Brooks’ horror spoof Young Frankenstein.

One of the first major film stars to break out in the 1970s, Gene Hackman was the epitome of New Hollywood. An actor with ...

Alopecia areata, ringworm, and chemotherapy are among the most common causes of a bald spot or patch in the beard. Treatment can vary depending on the underlying cause of a bald patch in the beard.

On Wednesday, the 31-year-old FIFO worker admitted he became so enraged after his wife Carina Mirabile told him she had once slept with US rapper Quevo, he punched a door in frustration ...