Mel Brooks

It's terrible.

And he left, and 24 hours later, a beautiful wooden box arrives, placed on my desk.

It is six magnums of Chateau Aubriant, 1961.

Priceless.

Maybe the greatest wine ever made, including Rothschild or any other.

And with a little note saying, have no anxiety over high anxiety.

It's wonderful.

Love, Hitch.

Well, you know, it was respecting their ability to deliver comedy as well as and sometimes a lot better than male comedians.

And they knew that I respected their ability and their talent.

And they gave all because of it.

And they weren't ashamed or afraid to reveal maybe unconscious aspects of their comedy talent, which may have been a little off color, a little crazy, or a little bizarre that they wouldn't show anybody, but they'd show it to me because they knew I respected the full range of their gifts.

Yes.

Well, actually, you know, when Gene first brought it up to show the wizardry of this, you know, Dr. Frankenstein coming up with this incredible creature, reanimating dead tissue.

And not only does it move, does it walk and talk.

But it also dazzles you with song and dance, you know.

So I said, I think we're tearing it, Gene.

I think, you know, we're going too far.

We want some of the very similitudinous quality that was in the, you know, in the original James Whale movie, you know, which was serious and scary.

And I don't want to lose the seriousness and the scariness of it.