Book Review: 'Funny Man' recaps the life and manic career of writer-actor-director Mel Brooks
Rewatching “Blazing Saddles,” Mel Brooks’s 1974 sendup of western movies, may well shock and perhaps offend. The dialogue is full of “n—s” and “f—gs,” the randy female lead played by Madeline Kahn is named “Lili Von Shtupp,” and the moron Mongo commits animal abuse by K.O.-ing a blameless horse. Political correctness? What’s that?
The movie was also deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant by the Library of Congress in 2006 and preserved in the National Film Registry. “Blazing Saddles” and a number of...
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