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...Apocalypse, I came to appreciate the Bible academically, from the history of its creation to its later influence on pretty much all of Western literature. However, absent was the deep spiritual and emotional connection with the good book that I had heard so much about from televangelists, Mel Gibson and the blurb on the back of my unbought Teen Bible at Wal-Mart. As fate would have it, an acquaintance, Caleb L. Weatherl ’10, the Vice President of the Harvard Republican Club, was door-knocking in my dorm for new members. When he asked me to join...
...York Times as you'd get about Israel in a month. Why would you want to know about us? We don't rock your boat or export much you're interested in, except for our admirable wines, a steady supply of sports figures and a few actors like Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman...
...lightning strike twice? The Producers, Mel Brooks's musicalized version of his 1967 film comedy, was an out-of-the-blue, ain't-Broadway-grand surprise when it opened in the spring of 2001. A septuagenarian funnyman adapts one of his old movies for the stage, writes the songs himself, indulges all his vulgar-vaudevillian comic impulses, and shows the Broadway pros how to do it - what could be more thrilling? And so, when Brooks went back to his film archives to perform the same trick with Young Frankenstein, his horror-movie spoof from 1974, the buzz on Broadway...
...harsh. If The Producers had never existed, Young Frankenstein would be a reasonably entertaining addition to Broadway's fall season - and it may yet be a big hit. But we have a right to higher standards. Mel Brooks is no longer the inspired amateur. Now he's a Broadway monster, repeating himself...
Young Frankenstein Broadway's Hilton Theatre; opened Nov. 8Can lightning strike twice? Plenty of sparks fly in Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks' follow-up to his big hit The Producers. But this time the gags are lamer, the songs (again by Brooks) more generic, and there's no Nathan Lane--though the monster's big moment, doing Puttin' on the Ritz in top hat and wails, almost saves the show. Almost...