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When Mel first talked about Young Frankenstein, I never thought it would happen. It wasn't until after Anne's death that he really started to write. It was a release from his grief, and I think the writing saved him. When he lost Anne, he lost everything. Mel sees the audience laugh each night, and it infuses him with a big breath of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway's Favorite Babe | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...egged me on to continue working on The Producers after Mike's death, and after Anne died, I encouraged him to work on Young Frankenstein. A show that is so filled with humor is a great antidote to grief. To laugh and to hear the sound of laughter is healing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway's Favorite Babe | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

When Mel walks down the street, people call out to him as if he is a best friend because he made them laugh. Just as people ran to The Producers after 9/11, I think they'll run from the evening news to see Young Frankenstein. During the Depression, people loved to go to musicals and the movies to escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway's Favorite Babe | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

During the curtain call for Young Frankenstein, there's a hint to the audience that Brooks' Blazing Saddles is waiting in the wings. Is that likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway's Favorite Babe | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...been lost in his latest work. In the humorless and melancholy “Gum Thief,” Coupland seems dangerously close to falling from his observer’s perch.In attempting to expand his literary palette into the genre of modern tragedy, Coupland has created a Frankenstein-esque fusion of his illustrious satirical past and his shaky dramatic future. Coupland writes his characters into a perpetual search for commiseration, for stability, and for an escape from the human shells around them that serve as a constant reminder of their own mortality. In his fitter form, Coupland would make...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sorrows of the Young and Worthless | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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