It was “too dirty” for John Wayne to accept a part. Too “disgusting and vulgar” for Ted Ashley, the chairman of Warner Brothers, who threatened to “bury” the film. But director Mel Brooks stuck to his ...
Mel Brooks' satirical Western Blazing Saddles got mixed reviews when it opened in February 1974, but it became the year's biggest box office hit. Above, Cleavon Little, left, as Sheriff Bart and Gene ...
The story of why Richard Pryor didn’t play the role of Black Bart in “Blazing Saddles” (1974) has been rendered shopworn through many retellings, but it bears mentioning on the occasion of the film’s ...
BORN and raised in Dallas, Burton Gilliam couldn't sound more Texan if he tried. So he was ideal to play a cowboy in Mel Brooks' classic Western spoof, Blazing Saddles, whose 30th anniversary DVD hits ...
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