Mel Brooks: From the 2,000-Year-Old Man to a Young Frankenstein

By Brad Darrach People December 4, 1974 A prissy, old-fashioned maiden wakes from a swoon to see a corpse-colored giant with a large zipper in down at her prostrate form. Frankenstein’s monster! And, what’s even scarier, the monster is unzipping a zipper that is not...

One From the Heart

By Wendy Wasserstein New York Woman March 1988 Teri Garr shows up for lunch wearing a plaid flannel shirt, a blue Benettonish sweater and a pair of slacks. It’s the very same ensemble I once saw on Mariel Hemingway in the Russian Tea Room. I remember thinking at that...