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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY-KANSAN
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5 Young man
8 Request earnestly
12 Sore
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14 Crazy
15 St. Patrick's Day symbol
17 Beige
18 Opine rudely
19 Hears revelie
21 Hot tub
22 Obi
22 Scrooge's interjection
26 Curved path
28 Long
31 Caspian feeder
33 Wall Street stat, with "The"
35 Colorless
36 Barber's tool
38 Appre-hend
40 Last mo.
41 Entrance
43 Ailing
45 Yell
"You're not funny!"
47 One whose job suits you?
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57 Arthur of tennis
58 Corral
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2 Reverberate
3 Burn somewhat
4 Choir's repertoire
5 "Get Shorty" author
6 "Breaking Bad" network
7 "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" compose
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money
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19 Peacock's
home?
20 Quick
glance
21 Serves
22 D.C.
figure
23 Mediocre
24 Summary
24 Pole
dance?
25 Mrs.
Zeus
26 Cupid's
alias
28 Dregs
29 Exam
format
30 Make
over
31 Time
of your
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jeremy Saunders, general manager of the newly opened restaurant Hog Wild Pit BBQ, has a long-running history with Lawrence. Even though he is from Eureka and didn't attend the University of Kansas, he has always been a fan of the Jayhawks and KU basketball.
Wichita-based Hog Wild Pit BBQ opens restaurant in Lawrence
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"I've been coming to basketball games for the last 12 years and had connections with people here," Saunders said. He said the restaurant's Wichita-style barbecue is perfect for small towns like Lawrence.
Hog Wild Pit BBQ is a Wichita-based barbecue chain opening restaurants in cities like Hutchinson, Salina and El Dorado after its success at each of its five Wichita locations. The Lawrence location, which is located on 23rd Street near Naismith Drive, became the ninth store of the franchise.
"We really have a good coverage in the Wichita area and its surrounding areas there," Saunders said. "We are just basically moving away from there as we grow. Lawrence seems like a good fit for us. It's a great location. It's great for the campus."
Patrons eat dinner at Hog Wild Pit BBQ, a new barbecue restaurant in Lawrence on 23rd Street near Naismith Drive.
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The Lawrence location replaced an old Blockbuster store that went out of business in 2013. The restaurant opened its doors in August and is owned by T.D. O'Connell.
Bill Self has visited the restaurant and has eaten its famous barbecue, Saunders said. He left his signature on
a menu which is now framed on the restaurant's wall.
"It's my first time here,but the restaurant looks well designed and their food is delicious," customer Chrissy Allen said. "Since it's on 23rd street, it is pretty convenient for us to grab barbecue anytime."
Edited by Jacob Clemen
'Young Frankenstein' has new life at 40th-anniversary celebration
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Director Mel Brooks spent a lot of money on white handkerchiefs while making his 1974 tour de farce, "Young Frankenstein."
"I gave everybody in the crew a white handkerchief," said the 88-year-old comedy legend during a recent phone interview. "I said, 'When you feel like laughing, put this in your mouth.' Every once in a while, I'd turn around and see a sea of white handkerchiefs, and I said, 'I got a hit."
"Young Frankenstein" was more than a hit. It is a comic masterpiece.
Shot in glorious black-and-white, the comedy managed to be both a spoof and a loving homage to the Universal horror films — 1931's "Frankenstein" and 1935's "The Bride of Frankenstein," both directed by James Whale, and 1939's "Son of Frankenstein," directed by Rowland V. Lee that starred Boris Karloff as the monster.
Brooks co-wrote the Oscar-nominated script with the film's star, Gene Wilder, who had starred in Brooks' 1967 classic "The Producers" and 1974's "Blazing Saddles."
Wilder played the arrogant Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, who had so distanced himself from his family that he insisted his last name be pronounced "Frankensteen." But when the good doctor visits the old family castle in Europe, it isn't long before he creates his own monster (Peter Boyle).
Rounding out the cast of crazzies were Madeline Kahn as Frederick's tightly wound fiancee, Elizabeth; Marty Feldman as "Eye-Gore;" Cloris Leachman as the terrifying Frau Blucher; Teri Garr as the saucy Inga; Kenneth Mars as the one-armed Inspector Kemp; and Gene Hackman as the blind hermit.
Brooks, who has won Emmys, a Grammy, an Oscar and Tonys, put his hand and footprints in the famed TCL Chinese Theatre forecourt Monday morning as part of the film's 40th-anniversary celebration.
On Tuesday, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment released a new Bluray version of the film.
"I said, 'What are you doing?' He said, 'I have an idea for a movie. It's about the grandson of Victor Frankenstein, and he wants nothing to do with the family, but sooner or later he will get sucked into the family insanity.'"
After filming ended that day on "Blazing Saddles," the two worked until 2 a.m. on ideas for "Young Frankenstein."
It was Wilder who came up with the idea for "Young Frankenstein." One day during production on "Blazing Saddles," Brooks saw Wilder sitting in a corner with a legal pad "scribbling something in his cowboy outfit," said Brooks.
"We were very excited about were we could go, the possibilities, what was au courant we could make fun
of," he said. "We both knew we had to salute (novelist) Mary Shelley as well as James Whale. We had respect for the book and the movie."
The film was originally set to be made at Columbia. But the studio executives nixed the idea of him shooting it in black-and-white like the original films. "I said then the deal is broken," noted Brooks.
"Young Frankenstein" quickly found a new home at Fox after the film's producer Michael Gruskoff gave the script to his friend Alan Ladd Jr., who had just taken over the reins of the studio. Dale Hennesy designed the sets that honored art director Charles D. Hall's original designs for "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein." Gerald Hirschfeld supplied the atmospheric black-and-white cinematography.
for added authenticity, Brooks found Kenneth Strickfaden, who had created the seminal electrical equipment for the original horror films, so he could use it in "Young Frankenstein."
"He had a garage in Santa Monica," noted Brooks. "I went to his garage, and there it was. He said, 'OK, let me turn it on.' He hit the switch, and it all went buzzzzz."
"I had a real problem," Brooks said. "I didn't want it to be just funny or silly. I wanted Mary Shelley's basic feelings captured and the ... haunting beautiful quality that James Whale got with Boris Karloff. My movies are
not about jokes. They are about behavior, and behavior can be very funny."
Brooks and Wilder had a disagreement over one of the movie's many iconic moments — Frederick and the monster decked out in top hat and tails performing "Puttin' on the Ritz."
Wilder, related Brooks,
"wanted to do 'Puttin' on the
Ritz' to show the prowess of
the talent of the monster. I
said no, no, no, we can't do
that. It will make it silly."
But Brooks gave in because Wilder "never stopped annoying me," he said, laughing. "We shot it, put it in the picture, and we loved it."
When he screened the rough cut of "Young Frankenstein" to a small audience on the Fox lot, he warned them that at nearly 2 hours long, the movie "would be a total failure," but said if they came back in a month, it would be "a brilliant, funny, remarkable success."
During that month in the editing bay, "I did my homework," said Brooks, who realized that there was too much comedy in the film. He cut the weaker comic moments and "spaced out when I wanted the audience to breathe out and relax. I got the rhythm of the movie right."
"Young Frankenstein," he said, is "by far the best movie I ever made. Not the funniest — 'Blazing Saddles' was the funniest, and hot on its heels would be 'The Producers.' But as a writer-director, it is by far my finest."
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