Mel Brooks Went Too Far—But Only Once

At Mel Brooks’s prodding, I am going to spill the beans about his new memoir, All About Me!. As he encourages in the preface: “This book needs to sell!… Let the secrets out! Tell all! Tell everybody! Let everybody you know hear all the terrible things I’ve done…shout it from the rooftops!” Brooks has not done anything all that terrible—unless you count Solarbabies, the postapocalyptic roller-skating movie that his company, Brooksfilms, produced. He also doesn’t take the book as an opportunity to settle old scores; the closest thing All About Me! has to villains are the Columbia Pictures execs who… Read Full Article