Nope, I speak not of Barbra Steisand or Fanny Brice. Not Kristen Chenoweth. It's Chenoweth's dog. No, that's not quite it, either. It's her dog's name, Madeline. Are you getting a clue? Chenoweth named the little fluff ball after her idol, the late Madeline Kahn. Now there was one funny lady. When she opened her mouth, I laughed. Her voice, her delivery. When I need a good laugh, I replay in my head her line as she alighted from a stagecoach after a bumpy ride in "Blazing Saddles." A line that could only have been written by the totally, wonderfully wacky Mel Brooks: "My tits are falling off!" There's not another actress on the planet who could have done it as well.
Blazing saddles was a funny movie for that era!
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ReplyDeleteOh. My. Kahn.
The film had a massive inflcuence on my sense of humor when I saw it in middle school. I've watched it at least 100 times and could easily watch it 1,000 more.
And Madeline Kahn is a big part of the magic. I mean, of course, Martin Mull and Christopher Lloyd and Eileen Brennan and Tim Curry and Michael McKean pulled their hilarious weight, but Madeline Kahn's five-times-(suspiciously)-widowed Mrs. White steals the show.
I just got a rabbit -- he's a boy, otherwise I might have considered naming him Madeline. I might save that for the next pet...
Thanks for letting me know about Clue. How did that one get by me? If Madeline's in it I gotta see it.
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