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Hot Ticket: Saddle up for fun
By Times Staff Writer
Published July 22, 2004
Who's your favorite character in Blazing Saddles? Is it Sheriff Bart (played by Cleavon Little)? The Waco Kid (Gene Wilder)? Lili Von Shtupp (Madeline Kahn)? Mongo (Alex Karras)?
Maybe it's Gov. William J. LePetomaine or the Yiddish-speaking Indian chief (both played by director Mel Brooks)?
Let your conscience (and your morphology) be your guide, and suit up to look like any of the motley crew for a special screening of Blazing Saddles and the traditional costume parade. It all happens at 3 p.m. Sunday at Tampa Theatre, where they'll be showing a restored archival print of Brooks' 1974 comic masterpiece about the black sheriff who turns on the corrupt political boss who hired him in a scheme to ruin a Western town.
It's rated R (warning: there's nothing politically correct here), so you may need to leave the kids at home. But wasn't the famous campfire scene really made for the 10-year-old boy in all of us?
Tampa Theatre, 711 Franklin St. $7 general, $6 seniors, students and military. 813 274-8981; or online at www.tampatheatre.org
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