When someone like Mel Brooks gets his hands on a novel by Mary Shelley, and then Gene Wilder writes the screen play , and they hire Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Gene Hackman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr...you can't help but end up with something so delectable as Young Frankenstein . And since today is Peter Boyle's birthday, I'd like to honor this classic "scary" film. I don't remember when I first saw Young Frankenstein. I have a vague memory of seeing it in a theater when it was first released--the only reason I'm doubting the theater viewing is that I was rarely allowed to see movies in an actual theater, Hollywood being the source of all evil. But I must have seen it in one because I was able to perfect my Peter-Boyle-doing-Puttin'-On-the-Ritz imitation while still in middle school. Many, many years later, when our kids were eager to be exposed to their parents' favorite films--I may be imagining there ever was a time when they wer...