Sunday, June 15, 2008
To Appreciate Inspiration...


2. Lack of Suprises. Half the joy of fiction, for me, is not knowing what's going to happen next. 'Young Frankenstein - The Movie' is so well-known that many can quote long scenes verbatim, even millions that were born long after its 1974 release. 'The Producers,' was a cult item most Americans hadn't seen.
3. No Drama, Mama. Pure comedy is always harder to do - it either works or it doesn't, it's either funny or it's not.
4. New Jokes, Please? 'Young Frankenstein - The Movie' was basically a long series of great gags, and re-heated gags get stale. For this reason, when Blake Edwards put 'Victor/Victoria' on Broadway he wisely wrote dozens of all-new great one-liners and sight gags, which Brooks failed to do here. One thing the play DID do right was pacing - mediocre gags go down best when you don't have time to think about them.
from Macy's 2007 Thanksgiving Day Parade, the saucy, well-delivered, but still mediocre 'Roll In Ze Hay,' sung with a faux-Swedish accent by the accomplished Sutton Foster, who plays Inga, Frankenstein's buxomy assistant...
Here are some vestigial kitchen party decorations - I took them down after a month

This hall ceiling pattern STILL hasn't been taken down...

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