The movie was a flop, despite Brooks attempt at social commentary — something he did more successfully with Blazing Saddles. In the film, Brooks plays a greedy businessman who bets one of his ...

100 Laughs list of the greatest movie comedies. Malcolm X. Library of Congress. The idea for Blazing Saddles originated with Andrew Bergman, who was only in his twenties. He named his character ...

For years, rumors circulated that CBS had made season after season of a 'Blazing Saddles' spin-off with no intention of airing it.

Mel Brooks has created some of American cinema's greatest comedy film over the course of his career, but he owes a lot to the ...

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Nearly 20 years after making 'Walk the Line', James Mangold says the 2007 parody 'Walk Hard' didn't scare him off from the ...

Mangold clearly couldn't be stopped from returning to the genre, which is exactly what he did for A Complete Unknown.

James Mangold, director of the acclaimed Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, reflects on the lasting influence of the 2007 parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

Madeline Kahn was born as Madeline Wolfson on September 29, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts to Jewish parents Freda and Bernard. Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and she subsequently ...

Blazing Saddles is a good example. I tried rewatching it a while ... (1980), The Naked Gun (1988) and Scary Movie (2000) are more about the gags than well-crafted narrative and character. That’s where ...