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'Blazing Saddles' Review: Buy a Copy Before the Left Burns Them All
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| 5/8/2014
| John Nolte
Posted on 05/09/2014 7:05:49 AM PDT by rktman
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To: moehoward
To the beat of the playback
watch
me
faggots.."Let's get 'em, girls!"
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posted on
05/09/2014 11:12:06 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: dfwgator
I think Pryor was not in a state where he could even be depended upon to show up on a given day (well into substance abuse by that point) so they needed somebody more grounded and reliable. In hindsight, it’s hard to envision anyone in the role beside Little.
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posted on
05/09/2014 11:19:00 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(Rather than a lesser Evil, I voted for Goode.)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
According to Mel Brooks, he, Richard Pryor and the other writers were at the Warner Commissary having lunch and at a nearby table was John Wayne. Wayne asked Brooks about the Western he heard he was making and Brooks said they were making one and wanted him in it, presumably as The Waco Kid. Wayne read the script and said no that it wasn't his kind of picture but he sure would be the first one in line to see it.
Now think of it John Wayne playing The Waco Kid, Brooks actually wanted an older actor for that role and had initially cast Gig Young in the role and then had to replace him at the last minute with Gene Wilder.
To: dfwgator
Actually Pryor realized he would not be a great cast and steered Brooks to Cleavon Little as his replacement.
To: Cincinatus
Brooks had to be dragged kicking and screaming into Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder was the writer and behind the production. Mel turn him down many times but finally got back on board to direct.
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posted on
05/09/2014 11:25:24 AM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Conseravtives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
To: moehoward
“Hey, where da white women?”
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posted on
05/09/2014 11:25:58 AM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Conseravtives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
To: rktman
I have an old betamax recording when it played on TV. They bleeped out the obvious stuff but made up for it with the out takes. One on my favorite comedies.
The sherriff is near!
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I still prefer ITS A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLDCorrect me if I'm wrong but with Mickey Rooney passing last month all stars of MMMMW are now gone.
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posted on
05/09/2014 11:34:34 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: Mastador1
It was Hackman that basically begged Brooks to let him do something in the film. I feel on the floor when he lit Frankenstein's finger on fire.
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posted on
05/09/2014 11:39:04 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: Nea Wood
To: morphing libertarian
Of course I may be the only person who has ever seen Brazil twice.I've seen it at least twice myself. I think it's a good film, just not the masterwork some feel it to be. One thing I found prophetic about Brazil was how terrorist events would happen and be cleaned up while everyone basically ignored them.
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posted on
05/09/2014 11:59:06 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
To: Scoutmaster
alamodvd.com, classicreels.com, vintagesouthern.net, just to start the list of online U.S. retailers of Song of the South on DVD.Those retailers can only be selling bootleg copies, probably sourced from a laserdisc at best. There is no Disney release of Song of the South on DVD.
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posted on
05/09/2014 12:01:31 PM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
To: Defiant
And it's about an Indian boy! I remember on our family trips to Florida stopping for breakfast at Sambo's. The menus had drawings of the tiger and the little boy. That's all I remember, but those places were gone later in the 70s. I think one of the other well-known chains is the descendant of Sambo's, but I don't recall which one.
You don't remember the tiger butter? In college in 1979 there was still one at the edge of campus. Various student groups held their meetings in the back room and once a month the black student union met there. Nobody seemed hypersensitive about the place at the time. I think Denny's took them over.
To: Captain Peter Blood
I thought casting Gene Wilder was a good way to play around with the Western genre. A nice Jewish boy playing an alcoholic gunslinger... who’da thunk it?
To: Organic Panic
The sheriff is a ni-*CLANG!!!*
To: rktman
“and then went ahead with the release without removing any of them.”
IIRC, _South_Park_ did the same thing. Slapped with “NC-17”, they agreed to tone it down to an “R”. They added a quadruple-entendre subtitle to the name, resubmitted, and got accepted.
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posted on
05/09/2014 12:11:35 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
To: Dilbert San Diego
It’s surprisingly available in the South.
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posted on
05/09/2014 12:12:40 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
To: ifinnegan
Interesting, thanks, ifinnegan!
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posted on
05/09/2014 12:22:27 PM PDT
by
Nea Wood
(When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.-Sowell)
To: Sans-Culotte
To: miss marmelstein
Nice to know I m not alone
I started taking throat lozenges to the plays to get folks to quit coughing.
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