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...Producers: The Movie Musical, which is based on the Broadway musical, which was based on the 1968 movie, all of which Brooks created. "It's very important for the world to see The Producers in its glory, with MATTHEW [BRODERICK, left] and NATHAN [LANE, right]," who played Leo Bloom and Max Bialystock on Broadway, says the comic. But when it came time to cast escaped Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in the new film, "I thought, Who's manic?" says Brooks. Enter WILL FERRELL, center. "There was something dangerous and mad in his eyes," Brooks explains. If it works, Ferrell...
Broadway has had its share of nebbishy musical stars, from Seymour Krelboyne in The Little Shop of Horrors to Leo Bloom in The Producers. But it's fair to say that no stage has ever been so densely populated with wacky misfits as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The off-Broadway musical, a sleeper hit that is moving to Broadway next month, charts the angst of six nerdy and needy young people as they wrestle down words like capybara and omphaloskepsis in their efforts to win a trip to the national spelling finals. Coming on the heels...
Woods, however, prefers the Prague dry-cleaner joke to Damrosch’s—his is funnier, he writes in an e-mail, because “it is not hypothetical, like the joke you ask me to comment on from Leo Damrosch...
English department heavyweights James Wood and Leo Damrosch are recognized pros at analyzing other people’s humor. But do they have any comedic muscle of their...
...Spain has rounded up a considerable number of suspects in its March 11 investigation, but testimony before parliament last year revealed the need for better coordination. And Spanish police made a few arrests of their own last week, too, detaining four people with alleged links to March 11. - By Leo Cendrowicz and James Graff Breakaway Bid SPAIN Basque President Juan José Ibarretxe ordered regional elections moved up by a month after the Spanish national parliament overwhelmingly rejected his proposal for greater Basque autonomy. An increase in support for Ibarretxe's moderate Basque Nationalist Party in the April 17 poll...