Richard Dix: Of Westerns and "The Whistler"
Most people who know the name Richard Dix (Ernst Brimmer, 1893-1949) today probably know it from a single quip spoken by David Huddleston in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles. Dix was indeed associated with westerns; he also had a name that was conducive to punchlines, in a benighted age when some people thought penises were intrinsically […]