Here are 12 stories of how it came alive.... alive! Cleavon Little (L) and Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles. Warner Bros. Brooks, who turned 98 in June, first met Wilder in 1963 when Wilder appeared ...

“Blazing Saddles” tells the story of a ruthless ... an alcoholic prisoner named Jim (Gene Wilder). They even use the N word, certainly taboo even back then, but used for shocking effect ...

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Gene Wilder entered the world with the given name ... Frederick Frankenstein, and Jim in “Blazing Saddles” so hilariously Jewish to a Jewishly-literate audience, without anything that would ...

Blazing Saddles, a hilarious 1974 Western spoof ... The cast includes Cleavon Little as Bart, Gene Wilder as Jim, Slim Pickens as Taggart, Harvey Korman as Hedley Lamarr, Madeline Kahn as Lili ...

Gene Wilder (1933-2016) had an unusual career ... Reunited with Brooks, Wilder had an annus mir(th)abilis in 1974, with “Blazing Saddles”, as the Waco Kid, and “Young Frankenstein ...

Over the weekend, it was announced that Gene Wilder – the twinkle-eyed, softly-spoken star of films including Willy Wonka, Blazing Saddles and The Producers – had passed away aged 83.