“I was in the middle of shooting the last few weeks of Blazing Saddles somewhere in the Antelope Valley, and Gene Wilder and I were having a cup of coffee and he said, I have this idea that there could be another Frankenstein. I said not another – we’ve had the son of, the cousin of, the brother-in-law, we don’t need another Frankenstein. His idea was very simple: What if the grandson of Dr. Frankenstein wanted nothing to do with the family whatsoever. He was ashamed of those wackos. I said, “That’s funny.”
—Mel Brooks
Karen Elson & ‘Atlas’ the Lion on posing table, Shotover House, Oxfordshire 2013 Archival pigment print on Moab supergloss paper 105.5 cms x 90.5 cms
Habitat Group for Shooting Gallery
1943
Mixed media
39.4 x 28.3 x 10.8 cm
Purchased with funds from the Coffin Fine Arts Trust; Nathan Emory Coffin Collection of the Des Moines Art Center, 1975.27
Photo: Collection of the Des Moines Art Center
© The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015
Screenplay by Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder
Based on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Baruch Dayan Emet.
Mr. Hill summed up his long career, not necessarily with regrets but with a clear eye, in a 1996 interview with The Times. “What we have here is a story of profound instability and impermanence,” he said. “This is what you learn at the beginning in show business; then it gets planted in you forever.”
Freeway, 1966. Oil on canvas. 17 1/2 x 26 3/8 in. Collection of Harold Cook, Ph.D. © Vija Celmins. Image courtesy McKee Gallery, New York
Artist: Nava Segev
Jerusalem, Israel
1994
brass
Donated to the Mina K. Avrech Collection of Judaica, Yeshiva University Museum, by Robert & Karen Avrech.
Paper Bag
1968
Fiberglass, epoxy, paint, and paper
59 1/4 x 29 x 18 in.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
© Alex Hay
Courtesy of the artist and Peter Freeman, Inc., New York Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
—Tuesday Weld
Peter Blake, b. 1932
Tuesday, 1961
Enamel paint, wood, plastic and printed paper on board, 476 x 267 x 38 mm
Tate Museum
Gun with Hand #1
oil on canvas, 24 x 34 in.
1964
Spanish Landscape with Mountains c. 1924
Oil on canvas
559 x 667 x 21 mm
Tate Museum
Chicago, 1949
Silent Picture #1, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
18″ x 23 1/4″
Steven Hill and Jerry Orbach made “Law and Order” the best TV. It was the only thing I watched. My daughter would binge watch episodes for hours.
…it’s FrankenstEEn…
Gene was a rare talent.
He saved Blazing Saddles, cominkg in the day before shooting commenced.
Werewolf? There wolf! Again my week month is made.
Igor, help me with the bags”
Certainly… you take the blonde. I’ll take the one in the turban!”
HEH, heh, heh, heh.