Burton Gilliam, of East Dallas and ‘Blazing Saddles,’ joins fight to save the Lakewood

Dallas Morning News ^ | 09/05/2015 | Robert Wilonsky

[DFG]

If you’re on the fence about attending Tuesday’s Landmark Commission meeting during which they’ll discuss the fate of the maybe-maybe-not imperiled Lakewood Theater, perhaps this’ll get you there: Burton Gilliam will be sitting in the audience. So, if nothing else, you can say you attended the same Dallas City Hall meeting as the actor who appeared in Blazing Saddles, Fletch, Paper Moon, Honeymoon in Vegas, those Rodeo Ford ads and … well, the list goes on and on.

This will be Gilliam’s first-ever city-government meeting in his hometown.

“So this’ll be kinda fun,” says the 1956 Woodrow Wilson High School graduate. “I am new at this stuff. It’ll be fun to watch people who really do go all the time — and there are people who really do go all the time — to see how they do things.”

[Tijeras_Slim]

All I know is that Gilda Texter made quite an impression on my teenage mind. (The girl on the motorcycle)

[newfreep]

[wally_bert]

She had a name?

Just kidding.....