(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 ...
I was 15 and probably looked about 11 when "Blazing Saddles" was released in 1974, but my buddies and I had no trouble buying movie tickets. The kid at the counter was no cop, and the sweet lady ...
Excuse our film critic while he whips out an appreciation of Mel Brooks’s brilliant western parody starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. On Sept. 1, 2016, I attended a screening of the western ...