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Word: mostel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most left-over of the left-overs is Mel Brooks' The Producers, a professionally written, professionally staged, but miserably filmed comedy starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. In spirit, the picture is happily reminiscent of the Marx Bros., and it has ten minutes of genius-within-genius under the title Springtime for Hitler, a musical about the Third Reich. Here, working on stage, Brooks is at his best as a director, and achieves the very tricks of timing which elude him on film. His lyrics for the show's title song ("Springtime for Hitler and Germany/Winter for Poland and France/We...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Summer Leftovers | 9/30/1968 | See Source »

...EXCEPTION AND THE RULE, adapted from Brecht by the West Side Story team, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. Directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Zero Mostel. Oilmen race across an Asian desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The New Broadway Season | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...PRODUCERS. Writer-Comedian Mel Brooks's first film is an uneven joy ride with two canny Broadway showmen (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who set out to make a fortune by staging a flop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 26, 1968 | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...PRODUCERS. Writer-Comedian Mel Brooks's first film is a wildly funny joy ride with two canny Broadway showmen (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who set out to make a fortune by staging a flop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 19, 1968 | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...PRODUCERS. Two shyster impresarios (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) set out to make a killing on Broadway in this first film by Comedian-Writer Mel Brooks, which offers, albeit fitfully, some of the best cinema comedy in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 5, 1968 | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

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