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...

Mel Brooks: The Playboy Interview

By Brad Darrach Playboy February 1975 “The rich,” according to a Spanish proverb, “laugh carefully.” They have a lot to lose. The poor, on the other hand, need to laugh in order to forget how little they have to laugh about—which may be why the Depression was the last...