Tag: Mel Brooks

Whether he was a hyper lumbering sidekick or an evil ego-driven buffoon, Dom DeLuise, who passed away yesterday, always played the kind of character that could light up rooms in his movies.

From Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles,” the scene before The Great Pie Fight. Dom DeLuise is trying to direct a group of queens in a musical number called “The French Mistake,” but unfortunately for them their studio is right next to where “Blazing Saddles” is being filmed.