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Fw: Fw: vn and Mel Brooks' film " the producers"
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From: "Rodney Welch" <rodney41@mindspring.com>
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> I didn't think "The Producers" was clever at all; I just thought it was a
laugh riot. I saw it again a few years ago and it still cracked me up -- it
holds up much better than most of Mel Brooks' films. Would Nabokov agree? I
don't know; I'll wait for the verdict of others, Dmitri Nabokov and Brian
Boyd, on that score. But as with everything about Nabokov, I find his taste
in comedy very hard to predict. We know that he loved Laurel and Hardy,
certain New Yorker cartoons, that he was fond of Hitchcock's "The Trouble
With Harry," and that he enjoyed watching Lenny Bruce -- and while it's easy
enough to see why he (or most of us) would like those things, I could just
as easily imagine reasons for him to hate them. Somewhere in Boyd's "The
American Years," there's an account (I think from Alfred Appel) of how
Nabokov laughed helplessly during John Huston's "Beat the Devil," a movie
which in my own case has never produced more than a few respectful grins.
>
> Rodney Welch
> Columbia, SC
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> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> Sent: Jan 16, 2004 1:31 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Fw: vn and the producers
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> EDNOTE. Neither Alfred Appel's _Nabokov's Dark Cinema_ not Barbara
Wyllie's
> _Nabokov at the Movies_ mentions the Brook's film (one of my favorites).
>
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> From: "Mulhern, Michael" <michael.mulhern@FOXNEWS.COM>
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> > Does anyone know if VN ever saw the movie 'The Producers' and what his
> > opinion might be? I saw it last evening on Broadway and found it much
too
> > obviously clever for my taste. I have a feeling VN might have felt the
> > same.
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From: "Rodney Welch" <rodney41@mindspring.com>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (28
lines) ------------------
> I didn't think "The Producers" was clever at all; I just thought it was a
laugh riot. I saw it again a few years ago and it still cracked me up -- it
holds up much better than most of Mel Brooks' films. Would Nabokov agree? I
don't know; I'll wait for the verdict of others, Dmitri Nabokov and Brian
Boyd, on that score. But as with everything about Nabokov, I find his taste
in comedy very hard to predict. We know that he loved Laurel and Hardy,
certain New Yorker cartoons, that he was fond of Hitchcock's "The Trouble
With Harry," and that he enjoyed watching Lenny Bruce -- and while it's easy
enough to see why he (or most of us) would like those things, I could just
as easily imagine reasons for him to hate them. Somewhere in Boyd's "The
American Years," there's an account (I think from Alfred Appel) of how
Nabokov laughed helplessly during John Huston's "Beat the Devil," a movie
which in my own case has never produced more than a few respectful grins.
>
> Rodney Welch
> Columbia, SC
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> Sent: Jan 16, 2004 1:31 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Fw: vn and the producers
>
> EDNOTE. Neither Alfred Appel's _Nabokov's Dark Cinema_ not Barbara
Wyllie's
> _Nabokov at the Movies_ mentions the Brook's film (one of my favorites).
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mulhern, Michael" <michael.mulhern@FOXNEWS.COM>
> ..
> >
> > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (4
> lines) -------------------
> > Does anyone know if VN ever saw the movie 'The Producers' and what his
> > opinion might be? I saw it last evening on Broadway and found it much
too
> > obviously clever for my taste. I have a feeling VN might have felt the
> > same.
>
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