“Creative accounting” sets up the premise of the Mel Brooks movie turned musical The Producers, the story of two men who stage a Broadway musical designed to fail. The parodic idea is that the risk-reward …
June 26, 2019
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Stories by Micha Barnes
Mel Brooks’ The Producers: a parodic and skewed risk-reward scenario
Little Shop of Horrors: Roger Corman’s best B movie
Like the undercard of a title fight, a B Movie in the 1930s was the show nobody had come to see, but watched anyway because it was included with the price of the ticket. Thus, …
June 12, 2019