Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist [4] [5] Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, based on a story treatment by Bergman. [6] The film stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.
When filming was about to begin in London, Wilder received an urgent call from Brooks, who was filming Blazing Saddles, offering Wilder the role of the "Waco Kid" after Dan Dailey dropped out at the last minute, while Gig Young became too ill to continue. Wilder shot his scenes for Blazing Saddles and immediately afterwards filmed The Little ...
Cleavon Jake Little (June 1, 1939 – October 22, 1992) was an American stage, film and television actor. He began his career in the late 1960s on the stage. In 1970, he starred in the Broadway production of Purlie, for which he earned both a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award.
The production took place because of a lighthearted agreement between Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole while they were filming Becket.O’Toole decreed that they should each play Hamlet afterwards under the direction of John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier in either London or New York City, with a coin toss deciding who would be assigned which director and which city.
Louis Burton Lindley Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), better known by his stage name Slim Pickens, was an American actor and rodeo performer. [1] Starting off in the rodeo, Pickens took up acting, and appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows.
He is based on Brooks' character Governor William J. Le Petomane from Blazing Saddles, whom Brooks also played. [5] George Takei as Ohga, a muscular Manx cat who is the leader of Ika Chu's army. He is based on Slim Pickens' character Taggart from Blazing Saddles. [5] Aasif Mandvi as Ichiro, a slim tuxedo cat who usually hangs around with Chuck
What follows is an overview of the main characters in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, followed by a list and summary of the minor characters from the play. [1] Three different early versions of the play survive: known as the First Quarto ("Q1"), Second Quarto ("Q2"), and First Folio ("F1"), each has lines—and even scenes—missing in the others, and some character names vary.
The Hamlet of the supposed earlier play also uses his perceived madness as a guise to escape suspicion. Eliot believes that in Shakespeare's version, however, Hamlet is driven by a motive greater than revenge, his delay in exacting revenge is left unexplained, and that Hamlet's madness is meant to arouse the king's suspicion rather than avoid it.