racist comedy (aside)

[Dennis]

> Which compels me to spoil the movie for everybody by revealing that, as I
> found
> out the week before last, the central conceit of "The Producers" (trying
to
> find the worst possible artist in order to ensure the failure of a project
> which has been sold several times over) is directly lifted from Ayn Rand's
> "The
> Fountainhead"!
>
> unless anyone knows different.
>
> dd

Where in "The Fountainhead" is there anything like "Springtime for Hitler"?
The nearest connection I can think of is that Roark deliberately blows up
his own (stolen) design for public housing, pleads guilty so that he may
filibuster in court on the glories of Objectivism. Bad theater, that, but
the same as Brooks's?

DP