Set in a Washington, D.C. hospital, Temperatures Rising started as a medical sitcom with more slapstick than heart, led by Cleavon Little. Despite a few attempts to retool the show, it struggled ...

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 ...