Blazing Saddles
No, David Zucker, you couldn’t make ‘Airplane!’ today — but why would you want to?
In Zucker’s films, many of the jokes that fall flat now were doomed to die anyhow, too topical to endure and too problematic to bear remembering.
For Mel Brooks’ 95th birthday, 4 ways he changed the world
From one Brooks, how many rivers flow?
At 94, Mel Brooks makes his first ever political endorsement ad
“Joe will keep us going,” Brooks said in the commercial, posted to Twitter by his son Max Brooks.
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 Mel Brooks can teach us about racism
The opening scene of ‘Blazing Saddles’ says it all about Mel Brooks’ serious comic genius.
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.