He Was Supposed to Take it All Out
The chief executive of Warner Brothers, Ted Ashley, was not happy after Brooks screened the film. Ashley confronted Brooks and firmly stated, “You have to do the following: take out (the N-word), take out the bean scene, punching a horse, the Lili von Shtupp and the black sheriff ‘you’re sucking my arm,’ or something. You’ve got to take it all out.”
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Brooks replied with, “ Great! They’re all out ,” but instead of doing as he was told, what he did was throw out all the notes, and he walked away.