h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The article's not bad, but it seems to gloss over some stuff that is important and interesting. Like the "spy themed show" Brooks helped create (which is of course the television classic Get Smart) or dismissing Carl Reiner as a "colleague" who was on the 2000 Year Old Man albums (as if his contribution isn't even important enough to merit a mention - in fact, it was because of Reiner that Brooks originally got some of his early breaks, like the gig writing for Sid Ceasar's Your Show of Shows).

The bit on Brooksfilms seems a bit short as well. It's all well and good to say that his contributions in production aren't well known to the moviegoing public. I would think that this would be a good opportunity to bring these contributions to light.

Originally I entitled this article Mel Brooks -- The Man, The Films. It was supposed to be a snapshot of his life, but mostly about Brooks' films, specifically the ones he directed. You might notice "To Be Or Not To Be" is not in the list of his films, not because he didn't produce, star in and write it, but because he didn't direct it, which was my inclusion criterion.

The title, and thus the apparent intent, was changed without consulting me. So things which now appear to be missing in error were in fact deliberately left out because they were not related to the films. In my defense I'll say that the things I glossed over were the things which did not interest me and that is the only way I would expect anyone to write; had someone else written this article they might have focussed on a different aspect entirely.

Thank you for reading it though. I don't want to scare people away.

Ahhh, that makes sense. They probably shouldn't have retitled it. Then again, maybe no one else will notice. I know everyone's not as anal as me.