Mel Brooksdoesnt much care for critics, or crickets, as he calls them.
But they should be ignored.
Brooks, 92, may want people to ignoreFunny Man, too.
Credit: Harper
McGilligan paints the filmmaker as a credit hog whod rather harm a relationship than fully acknowledge a collaborators contribution.
Bancroft allegedly responded, Mel Brooks is telling Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning how to act?
before laughing and storming off set.
The author posits that this was, in part, because people feared Brooks temper or litigiousness.
