Platinum Picks on DVD: Arquette's 'Baby,' Yankee Stadium, 'Blueberry Nights' Jul 3, 2008
Desperate Characters* * ; 1971, Paramount/Legend, R, $15 Shirley MacLaine seems less than enraptured being married to Kenneth Mars, a lawyer always disagreeable and sometimes loutish. Written/directed by sometime-playwright Frank D. Gilroy, the movie is full of stage-like dialogue that sounds overdone to the ear. (USA Today -- Life)
A look at 'James Stewart: Western Collection' and other new DVDs Jul 2, 2008
Shirley MacLaine and Kenneth Mars play an upper-middle-class couple in a nearly dead marriage. He is in the midst of dissolving his long-term partnership with an old friend at his law firm. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Rebuilding 'Young Frankenstein' from screen to stage Nov 12, 2007
In the movie: Frederick distracts Inspector Kemp (Kenneth Mars) from the monster's growls with a game of darts. In the musical: Kemp (Fred Applegate) brings the villagers to the castle, where Igor distracts them with a new dance craze, "Transylvania Mania.". (New York Daily News)
Michael Jackson Gives Bahraini Prince Royal $$$ Pain Oct 16, 2007
" Without too much trouble, Brooks should be able to keep replacing this cast as they come and go for a good time to come. P.S. I hope Wilder returns for the big opening night on Nov. 8, but if he doesn t, at least we can expect Leachman, Kenneth Mars and Teri Garr. All the other principals from the film Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle have sadly passed away much too early. And one more thing: Hidden in the lyrics of the cast s curtain-call song is the promise/threat of a "Blazing... (Fox News)
Mel Brooks goes back to lab for 'Young Frankenstein' Sep 28, 2007
Megan Mullally, Andrea Martin, Christopher Fitzgerald and Fred Applegate round out the principal performers in parts portrayed on screen by Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman and Kenneth Mars. As for Stroman, who also worked with Brooks on 2005's The Producers: The Movie Musical, the less-well-received screen version of their Broadway smash, "this gal has outdone herself," Brooks says. (USA Today)
Young Frankenstein Aug 25, 2007
Wilder, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Peter Boyle, Kenneth Mars and the incomparable Madeline Kahn created incisive comic characterizations that would have been memorable on their own but were deliriously funny as a team. Throw in Gene Hackman as a bumbling blind hermit and you're in comedy heaven. (Variety)
Raymond star Peter Boyle dies Dec 14, 2006
APPeter Boyle, as the monster, hands Kenneth Mars, the police chief, a shock in this scene from Mel Brook's 1974 film, "Young Frankenstein.". On television, he starred in Joe Bash, an acclaimed but short-lived 1986 dramedy in which he played a lonely beat cop. (MSNBC -- Gossip)
Malcolm in the Middle, Francis in the end May 10, 2006
Then there was Otto Mannkusser, the hospitable but mostly clueless dude-ranch owner, played by Kenneth Mars, with the funny German accent Mars has been saddled with since his role as the Nazi playwright in the original film version of The Producers. The prodigal sons travels also allowed for more appearances by Cloris Leachmans hilariously obnoxious Grandma Iva, and to the credit of Christopher Kennedy Masterson, the young actor who played Francis, he held his own with all of these... (MSNBC -- Television)
