Blazing saddles
How Gene Wilder Celebrated the Black-Jewish Alliance in ‘Blazing Saddles’
Last year I joined some 3,000 people at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark for a wide-screen showing of Mel Brooks’ 1974 Western parody “Blazing Saddles.” In the onstage interview that followed, Brooks, then 89, was beside himself in his delight at sharing his 42-year-old comedy with a real live audience.
What We Can Learn From Mel Brooks About Racism
The opening scene of ‘Blazing Saddles’ says it all about Mel Brooks’ serious comic genius. It is side-splittingly funny, but also tells us plenty about our culture.
Mel Brooks Moves to Walk of Fame
Over 30 years after opening our ears to the musical quality of franks-and-beans flatulence, actor and director Mel Brooks will finally receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The 83-year-old “Blazing Saddles” director, will place his hands in cement on April 23.
