From the movie Blazing Saddles:
Hedley Lamarr: Be still, Taggart, be still.
Taggart: Yes, sir.
Hedley Lamarr: My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought, careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.
Taggart: Ditto!
Hedley Lamarr: “Ditto?” “Ditto,” you provincial putz?
Mel Brook’s wild and politically incorrect send-up of westerns is one of the funniest movies ever made. It satirizes just about every convention of the genre and skewers the era’s racism. Harvey Korman plays Hedley (not Hedy) Lamarr, Slim Pickens is Taggart, and Brooks himself puts in an appearance as Governor William J. Le Petomane and a Yiddish-speaking Indian chief. This is a film that should be handed down from generation to generation, and if your kids haven’t seen it and they’re 10 or older, it makes for a great night of holiday movie watching. Even the Library of Congress deemed it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” and it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
