RIP Gene Wilder .......
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Damn..what a great actor..... The Waco Kid........my all time favorite line.....its the end of Blazing Saddles......
By the end of the movie, the Waco Kid learns that Bart plans on leaving Rock Ridge forever. He asks where Bart wants to go, and when Bart responds
"Nowhere special,"
Waco Kid says,
"Nowhere special. I always wanted to go there."
"So the two of them decide to stick together because let's face it, they're best friends and they make a great team. So this pretty much completes Waco Kids resurrection from a life of alcoholism into a life of heroism? "
Nowhere special.... I always wanted to go there"....
RIP Gene...you gave so many of us some good laughs...
By the end of the movie, the Waco Kid learns that Bart plans on leaving Rock Ridge forever. He asks where Bart wants to go, and when Bart responds
"Nowhere special,"
Waco Kid says,
"Nowhere special. I always wanted to go there."
"So the two of them decide to stick together because let's face it, they're best friends and they make a great team. So this pretty much completes Waco Kids resurrection from a life of alcoholism into a life of heroism? "
Nowhere special.... I always wanted to go there"....
RIP Gene...you gave so many of us some good laughs...
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Definite bummer for sure - one of my all-time faves. Grew up with Young Frankenstein, Willy Wonka, and Blazing Saddles. Then discovered The Producers in high school. A couple years ago I introduced Young Frankenstein and Willy Wonka to my kids and fell in love with them all over again as they did too.
I was surprised to learn a couple years ago that he doesn't have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But then after looking into and realizing that getting one is more about making a "donation" and hob-nobbing with the right people than it is about ability (I mean Donald Trump and Ryan Seacrest have stars) it began to make sense. He was a big Hollywood star who had anything but a big Hollywood personality and that kind of self-congratulating just didn't interest him. Just a quiet, thoughtful and (by nearly all accounts) kind man who preferred his work to be in the spotlight but his life to be out of it.
I'd also highly recommend his auto-biography ("Kiss Me Like A Stranger") to anyone who's interested in learning more about a great man!
I was surprised to learn a couple years ago that he doesn't have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But then after looking into and realizing that getting one is more about making a "donation" and hob-nobbing with the right people than it is about ability (I mean Donald Trump and Ryan Seacrest have stars) it began to make sense. He was a big Hollywood star who had anything but a big Hollywood personality and that kind of self-congratulating just didn't interest him. Just a quiet, thoughtful and (by nearly all accounts) kind man who preferred his work to be in the spotlight but his life to be out of it.
I'd also highly recommend his auto-biography ("Kiss Me Like A Stranger") to anyone who's interested in learning more about a great man!
They did a whole big obit in our local paper and it didn't even mention Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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