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Blazing Saddles at 50: Against all odds, Mel Brooks created the wackiest western ever made

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 ...
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‘Blazing Saddles’ Was Almost a Completely Different Movie, According to Mel Brooks

This year's 15th annual TCM Film Festival will celebrate EGOT winner Mel Brooks, specifically highlighting his trailblazing parody, Spaceballs. The writer, director, producer, actor, and playwright is ...
The Forward

‘Blazing Saddles’ marks a half-century of hilarity — and controversy

(JTA) — The phrase “that movie could never be made today” has probably been said more about “Blazing Saddles” than any other movie in history. Mel Brooks’ spoof of Hollywood Westerns is full of the ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Mel Brooks didn’t make cuts to film

It's as tiresome to hear someone say "They couldn't make 'Blazing Saddles' today" as it is to endure the Western clichés the movie skewered when it opened in 1974. For one thing those who lament that ...
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The Mel Brooks Comedy Even He Thinks Is the "Funniest Movie Ever Made"

If anyone knows how to make a comedy, it's Mel Brooks. His body of work is rife with comedy classics like Young Frankenstein and Spaceballs, the latter of which has a sequel — at last — in production ...