Peter Boyle comedy "Young Frankenstein", in which, in an homage to "King Kong", the monster is placed onstage in top hat and tails, grunt-singing and dancing to the song "Puttin' on the Ritz". Boyle said at the time, "The Frankenstein monster I play is a baby. He's big and ugly and scary, but he's just been born, remember, and it's been traumatic, and to him the whole world is a brand new alien environment. That's how I'm playing it". Boyle met his wife, Loraine Alterman, on the set of "Young Frankenstein" while she was there as a reporter for "Rolling Stone". He
Puttin' on the Hits Puttin' on the Hits Puttin' on the Hits is an American syndicated music/variety competition show hosted and written by Allen Fawcett. The show featured amateur acts lip-synching to popular songs. The show aired on weekends from 1984 to 1988.The show's title is a reference (and spoof) to Irving Berlin's 1929 song "Puttin' on the Ritz". The show grew out of lip synching contests developed by Wm. "Randy" Wood, who by 1982 had realized that his contests had grown so popular nationally that he needed to stage them on a broader scale. The planning process eventually grew into "Puttin' on the