[QUOTE=Little Nemo]
Mel Brooks has said that people assume that Pryor came up with all the edgy racial jokes but he says Pryor actually wrote almost none of the racial humor in the movie. He says that what Pryor did do was invent the character of Mongo and write all his lines.
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[QUOTE=Scissorjack]
Back when Cuba was under Batista and still a wretched hive of scum and villainy for depraved Americans to get their kicks, there was a nightclub performer, as well-known as he was well-endowed, who went by the moniker of “Superman” and specialised in live sex shows. He gets a fair bit of mention in the literature of the period, including Graham Greene’s Our Man In Havana.
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What he said.
Sorry guys, can’t help myself, I love this movie.
Hedley Lamarr: “My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention…”
Since we’re all here anyway, I might as well fight any residual ignorance on the joke about the governor’s name: Lepetomane, since The Master has addressed the issue and all.
(And just another bit of fun - whenever hubby or I is having trouble getting one item into another - threading a needle, putting a pen cap on, and such, the other person will invariably say, “Think of your secretary . . .”)
[QUOTE=Ghanima]
Sorry guys, can’t help myself, I love this movie.
Hedley Lamarr: “My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention…”
Taggart: “Ditto!”
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God darnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.