Posted on 09/01/2016 8:34:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He made fun of everyone and everything! He is also a true genius and whilst ALL of his movies aren’t “great”, most are and even the so-so ones are better than anything made today!
Max, he’s wearing a dress.
You’re so right
I’ve always been a HUGE fan of Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder and that whole stable of greats. I have every one of their movies...made together and made separately. I even have just about ALL of them on discs. :-)
I saw that mall featured in a web documentaey entitled “deadmall”. Isn’t the current occupancy rate like 20%?
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Sorry, I just checked. The theater is the only remaining part of the mall. The rest has been torn down.
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Blazing Saddles is shown on the television from time to time here in Indonesia, and is shown full and uncensored. Mayhaps the locals don’t get it .....
Why no one mentions Start The Revolution Without Me is madness.
It was hilarious.
Probably my favorite Wilder movie, even above WW and YF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3svB0cl3gGs
I saw Blazing Saddles in the theater when it first came out.
The PC versions suck.
Thanks,
I need to update My collection.
I crossed paths with him twice. Once when I was 17 he came into the store where I worked. I was wearing a t shirt that said “Je t’aime,” meaning “I love you” in French. He gave me a big smile and said “Je t’aime aussi.” (I love you, too.)
Then later when I was in college, one day I snuck away and walked to a matinee of some Woodly Allen movie (before he slept with his stepdaughter or raped his actual daughter). I was almost alone in the theater. There was one guy up front, also alone, laughing uproariously. When the lights came on, guess who it was? Gene Wilder.
I’m sorry he had to end his life with Alzheimer’s. My parents were his age and they did/are as well. RIP to a smart and funny man.
That was Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles, not Richard Pryor
Pryor was one of the writers IIRC
Oh I know that. No one could have played the Sheriff better than Cleavon......I was talking about Pryor as far as some of the comedies he and Gene Wilder made like “Stir Crazy”...and I think Pryor was involved in the writing of Blazing Saddles if I’m not mistaken. Anyhoo, they were all comic geniuses and left us with alot of good laughs and memories.
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