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 ...

Mel Brooks’ takedown of racism in America, the 1974 film “Blazing Saddles,” is still relevant and funny as hell thanks to its empowering lead character. Ironically, the film could not be made today.

“Blazing Saddles – 30 th Anniversary Special Edition”Over the years, most of us have associated Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles” with flatulence around a campfire, a candygram for Mongo, a toll booth in ...

In 1974, Mel Brooks pulled a "Number Seven" on moviegoers with his gloriously irreverent western spoof Blazing Saddles. For those who don't recall, a "Number Seven" _ joyfully described in the film by ...

A friend of mine recently watched Blazing Saddles with his 14-year-old daughter. It did not go the way he expected. He thought he was introducing her to a classic comedy, a movie that some people ...

Mel Brooks' satirical Western Blazing Saddles got mixed reviews when it opened in February 1974, but it became the year's biggest box office hit. Above, Cleavon Little, left, as Sheriff Bart and Gene ...

There’s nothing wrong with occupying children for 90 minutes. Yet there is something welcome and soothing about the way Paws of Fury links together puns, sight gags, one-liners, and self-referential ...

If anyone knows how to make a comedy, it's Mel Brooks. His body of work is rife with comedy classics like Young Frankenstein and Spaceballs, the latter of which has a sequel — at last — in production ...

Norman Steinberg, the co-writer of the Mel Brooks-fronted comedy “Blazing Saddles” and an Emmy winner for Flip Wilson’s 1970s variety show, has died. He was 83. Deadline reported Wednesday that ...