Mel Brooks, the Chinese Gourmet Society, and the stoking of creativity and mutual support One of my favorite parts of filmmaker and comedian Mel Brooks’s breezy, funny memoir, All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business (2021), is a short chapter devoted to what he and his pals called the “Chinese Gourmet Society.” For some nine years starting in the early 1950s (apparently — he gives no dates!), […] https://newworkplace.wordpress.....com/2024/04/22/mel-
