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Will lightning strike twice for Mel Brooks, who hopes to enliven his stage adaptation of Young Frankenstein with the same spark that made The Producers a money making machine? His new monstrosity is already selling advance tickets for a Broadway run in October – a top ticket price of $450 sets a new record for excess – but last week Young Frankenstein came staggering out of the lab for an out-of-town rampage in Seattle. The haunting question at the show’s world premiere Thursday night was whether his 20 million dollar baby would be embraced by the Emerald City or get trampled by critics with torches and pitchforks.

Gothamist's friend JW insists that pigeons are part of the dove family and are also called rock doves. Yeah, but just sometimes. And there is a classic pigeon scene in High Anxiety that is a take-off from The Birds.

More airport security news: All visitors to the U.S. who require visas will now be fingerprinted in operation US–VISIT(one think tank consultant says, "The system seems to presume that most terrorists are fools"). British Transport Secretary tells citizens to get used to huge delays with airplanes.