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...Wilder) uproariously funny for at least half its 88-min. running time, after which Mel Brooks the writer fails Mel Brooks the director by slipping into something sentimental...
...Charlie Chan features and serials. There were also such spin-offs as a comic strip, a radio show and a short-lived TV series. Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which is more accustomed to honoring film giants such as Jean-Luc Godard, Eisenstein and Billy Wilder, opened a Charlie Chan festival that will exhume 23 of his movies, most of which are familiar to late-show devotees...
...PRODUCERS. A wild, ad-lib energy that explodes in a series of sight gags and punch lines makes this saga of two sleazy stage producers (Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder) uproariously funny for at least half its running time, after which Mel Brooks the writer fails Mel Brooks the director by slipping into something sentimental...
...PRODUCERS has many things going for it-notably a wild ad-lib energy that explodes in sight gags and punch lines. Mel Brooks, creator of TV's Get Smart, wrote and directed this piece of lunacy about a pair of sleazy producers (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who try to make a killing on a Broadway flop...
...idea produces a nice, satirical swing in Myra. An even wilder swing, about which Vidal may or may not be serious, is the image of Myra as the symbolic solution for the population explosion. "She is a kind of messiah," says Vidal. In other words, the remedy for overpopulation might be homosexuality...