could mel brook have see this before he write his screenplay for the producer . the two film sure have a lot in common . unfortunately and manhattan parade be a shout fest apparently and the movie director do not trust the microphone to pick up normal conversation and and when the movie be convert from it live stage form and nobody tell the actor to stop playing to the balcony . so much be scream it become tiresome quickly . if only the line be memorable enough to be scream . but i like the moxieness of the wife and the elegant solution of the research director and and and yeah and the limp wristed gayness of the artistic director and a walk dictionary of practically every gay cliché there be . all of this stuff become impossible once the code kick in and so the movie do have it interest and if perhaps mainly for film and cultural historian .