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Mel Brooks inspires extremes--one tends to either love him or
hate him. True, it takes a certain kind of mind to see the absolute
brilliance of "Springtime for Hitler," the Broadway
send-up in Brooks's directorial debut, The Producers. But Brooks
is one of the most consistently humorous men around. Even in box-office
flops such as Robin Hood: Men in Tights, the writer-director's
gags are side-splittingly funny. He began his career in television--honing
his skills alongside Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, and Woody Allen.
Since then, he has brought comedy to new lows, in the most wondrous
of ways. As he himself said, "I cut my finger. That's tragedy.
A man walks into an open sewer and dies. That's comedy."
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