From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: News from mail
Article-I.D.: floyd.726
Posted: Sun Oct 24 15:04:33 1982
Received: Mon Oct 25 01:50:54 1982

Saturday night, CBS aired an edited-for-tv version of Mel Brooks'
classic "Blazing Saddles."  I have never seen such a hatchet job on a
movie in my life.  It was cut up so much that worthless scenes that
didn't make it into the original were inserted at random into the tv
version.

I just can't express how appalled I am and how sad I feel that some
group of editors decided that the emasculated-for-tv version was more
fitting for the American public than the original theater version.

I assume and hope that that version will never again be shown in its
current state.  Has a movie ever suffered so much at the hands of tv
censors?

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491