Im shocked!!

You didn't know?

I've always been a big fan. I got to meet her when she did the concert version of "Anyone Can Whistle". She was a sweet and lovely woman.

ON THE 20TH CENTURY=MASTERPIECE!

Oh My God! What happened? First Arthur Miller, now Madeline Kahn! What a sad week on Broadway!

yes Madeline Kahn died 5 years ago...

what a gifted comic actress with great performances in "Paper Moon", "Blazing Saddles", "Clue" and "On The 20th Century" among them. She was even funny in "At Long Last Love"....

I miss her so much. She never failed to make me smile. I watched Clue the other night and I got all teary. Hers was the first celebrity death to actually affect me. I still remember coming home and hearing my father say she had passed away. I literally went completely numb, and for the rest of the night I kept breaking down; she meant that much to me.

melissa errico fan - I'm so glad you got to meet her, and sorry to say I am jealous :) Good to hear she was sweet to you :)

Madeline always makes me laugh in "Young Frankenstein" with the Sweet Mystery of life moment. Not only was it comically perfect, it was perefectly sung.
I did a huge Mel Brooks study at college (which was later thrown out by the board *grump*) and Young Frankenstein is one of my fave films (I even have a Young Frankenstein inspire tattoo on my life.. I need to get a hobby...) which obviously led me to fall madly in love with anything Madeline did. Blazing Saddles "It's twue, it's twue!" Genious.
I was also really devestated to learn of her passing, such a talent, there's still a film due for release with her vocal talents on, I remember thinking about when A Bugs life Came out, how weird it was to hear her knowing she was dead.
There's a wonderful aria knocking around on various P2P programs of her on a chat show, singing "once a moment passes" or something along those lines and bursts into Sweet mystery of life at the end, worth downloading if you can find it.

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The aria was "The Moment Has Passed". She performed it on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. You can listen to it here...
The Moment Has Passed