At the Jan. 3 AFI Awards, Mel Brooks interrupted his speech about the American Film Institute’s women directors program to praise Taika Waititi for Searchlight’s “Jojo Rabbit.” However, he joked, the filmmaker “did not ask my permission to use Hitler!”
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hollywoodreporter.com
26.01.2020
Hollywood Flashback: Hitler Comedy 'The Producers' Won an Oscar in 1967
It's been more than 50 years since Mel Brooks' The Producers wrestled with the challenge of courting Oscar for a film offering a comic version of Adolf Hitler, something Jojo Rabbit is facing this year."There are many to whom this brand of humor is more an opening of wounds that can never heal," THR said in its Dec. 28, 1967, review.
billboard.com
09.01.2020
A Live Staging of the 'Young Frankenstein' Musical Is Coming to ABC
ABC will follow up its successful live staging of The Little Mermaid with a live monster musical — Young Frankenstein.
tvguide.com
08.01.2020
Young Frankenstein Live!
ABC is teaming up with comedy legend Mel Brooks for its next live musical, Young Frankenstein Live! The network announced the news at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Wednesday. The musical event is set to air this fall, with Brooks on board as a producer.
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