Gone with the wind . . .
“Further to your story about the infamous farting scene from Mel Brooks’
Blazing Saddles,” writes Julia Cameron. “I was working at Radio Hauraki at the time and we had the rights to hold a preview to the movie. In those days invitees were fun people and staunch listeners, rather than richlisters. We knew the storyline, and immediately before “that scene” we stopped the movie for intermission and served tubs of warmed baked beans to everyone. No-one knew why until . . . It was very funny!”