Fitz Blog of Comedy (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Young Frankenstein ***** Directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder as the title character. Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, and Gene Hackman also star. I have a simple sense of humour - kills me
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
OK! magazine continues the push the limits of trades descriptions as it tries to eek more sensation from the predictable life of Katie Price, aka Jordan...
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Where has all the ugly gone? The Daily Beast's Simon Doonan praises the Young Frankenstein star for his magnificent hideousness. What happened to ugly? Where did all the Calibans and Quasimodos go? In our ultra-looksist culture, everyone has been...
Georgia Newsroom (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Speaker From the Black Lagoon By Ron Marr | ChronWatch.com Is it just me, or is Nancy Pelosi starting to look more and more like Marty Feldman? Every time I hear that grating voice it seems as if she has ventured further into the world of cartoon and satire, as if someone hooked Smurfette up to [...]
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein ( played by Gene Wilder ): “Igor, help me with the bags.” Igor ( played by Marty Feldman ): [ Imitating Groucho Marx ] “Soitenly. You take the blonde, I'll take the one in the turban.” Dr. Frankenstein : “I was talking about the luggage .”— Young Frankenstein (1974), written by Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks, directed by Mel Brooks Give...
Jumping in Pools (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
That's Fronk-en-stien! An annual tradition of mine is to watch good ol' Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein, my favorite comedy. How can you beat it? Gene Wilder is the title character, Mel Brooks and him wrote the script, and you have Marty Feldman and Peter Boyle. Here are some awesome pictures to make you remember how awesome this flick really is: And here's the original trailer: Frau Blucher! Bookmark...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Where once the King of Halloween confection was Candy Corn -- selling 8.3 billion kernels a year -- planners of today's Halloween parties lobby their new faves: the latest in gross and disgusting party food.
The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks! (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Sophomoric, crass, political, weird, odd, random WTF articles to bring you to your knees with overpowering mirth.
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
This has been Python Week, but I’ve sort of reached my quota of Python clips. So I will cheat and post a sketch that most people think is Monty Python, but isn’t. The “Four Yorkshiremen” Sketch eventually became part of the group’s stage repertoire, but it was written for, and first performed on, At Last [...]
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Early episodes of cult British comedy MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS would have been lost forever if BBC bosses hadn't landed a deal to air the TV show in the U.S.The...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Obituary: Larry GelbartLarryGelbartEVEN when times are at their grimmest, we can still find humour in life.It’s part of a defence mechanism to keep a grip on sanity when all about are losing theirs. Jewish folk find it particularly easy to come by; an instinct so refined over millennia of persecution that it has become part of their genetic make-up.Certainly, Larry Gelbart seemed to have been...
Travel (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
By Elmer Beck If you arrived to see film reviews skip down to read them. In this paragraph I will give you some search terms to reach movie down load sites. You can try to search a term like "Top Movie Downloads", if you want some more, use "Illegal Movie Download Sites" and "Download Ringtones". The Thief of Bagdad: Extraordinary fantasy of local boy Sabu outdoing the...
Atanu Dey on India's Development (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
For decades I have been a fan or Garrison Keillor and his radio show “A Prairie Home Companion” on public radio. I used to listen to the radio for hours on end every day in the US. I miss radio in India, and I miss my favorite radio programs as much as I miss my friends. Aside from PHC, I love “Fresh Air” by the inimitable Terry Gross, “Car Talk” with Click and Clack:...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
An important chunk of entertainment history left us yesterday with the death of Larry Gelbart at 81. Gelbart was gifted both working alone and as a collaborator with other writers. It probably helped that relatively early in his career he labored alongside Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Neil Simon on comedian Sid Caesar’s [...]
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
An important chunk of entertainment history left us yesterday with the death of Larry Gelbart at 81. Gelbart was gifted both working alone and as a collaborator with other writers. It probably helped...
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