Gene Wilder has died

[Reluctant Daddy]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nephew-gene-wilder-star-mel-brooks-movies-dies-192526715.html

 

 

"So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you." - Willy Wonka

[BabyBoomer]

Reunited with Gilda. RIP.

 

~ Boomer ~

[+ nycman]

His roles as Willy Wonka and Dr. FrankenSTEEN....are a big part of my childhood mythology.

 

His ability to be comical and dead serious in the same breath was pure genius.

 

I'm sad he's gone but nonetheless happy that Heaven has gotten a very large dose of Pure Imagination....

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2pt2-F2j2g

[tennisjock]

I love him in blazing saddles, high anxiety , and all the Mel brooks films so freaking funny..I love thinking he and Gilda are back together giggling and laughing and loving.. What a comic loss

[caliguy]

His roles as Willy Wonka and Dr. FrankenSTEEN....are a big part of my childhood mythology.

 

His ability to be comical and dead serious in the same breath was pure genius.

 

I'm sad he's gone but nonetheless happy that Heaven has gotten a very large dose of Pure Imagination....

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2pt2-F2j2g

I think Johnny Depp did a great job with CCF. He reinvented the character instead of just copying Gene Wilder. Of coarse the original is still the best by far.

[+ deej]

I love him in blazing saddles, high anxiety , and all the Mel brooks films

 

+1

 

I first saw Blazing Saddles on a high school band trip. Imagine a room full of high school band geeks gathered to watch THAT movie. We were laughing so hard during the campfire scene someone called hotel security.

[BasketBaller]

He's wonderful as the Fox in The Little Prince (not a great movie but it does have some good performances). If you don't want to watch the whole thing, jump to 6:24 and watch to the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZalwjqNHG2A

[+ dutchmuch]

My childhood is officially over.

RIP Mr. Wilder.

[+ quoththeraven]

Just as a reminder: While it is touching that Wilder is reunited with Radner, he also leaves behind a spouse who mourns him. We should remember her, too.

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[+ nycman]

For the record...Gene Wilder had FOUR wives.

 

We all knew Gilda...the others?...not so much.

 

When and why did this become a competition?

 

RIP

[+ quoththeraven]

For the record...Gene Wilder had FOUR wives.

 

We all knew Gilda...the others?...not so much.

 

When and why did this become a competition?

 

RIP

 

Because Gilda's the only one who gets mentioned.

 

I can understand that why other wives, from whom he was divorced, aren't mentioned, but Karen Boyer, not Gilda Radner, is the person who saw Wilder through his final days and his struggles with Alzheimer's. That means something too.

[marylander1940]

 

[+ Phactor]

I love his movies with Richard Pryor.

[kewtex]

"I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille."

Waco Kid, "Blazing Saddles"

 

Thanks for the laughs, Gene Wilder.

[Reluctant Daddy]

I'd like to think this is happening right now, somewhere

 

[bostonman]

I can understand that why other wives, from whom he was divorced, aren't mentioned, but Karen Boyer, not Gilda Radner, is the person who saw Wilder through his final days and his struggles with Alzheimer's. That means something too.

 

Boyer certainly merits not only mention, but our condolences and our appreciation for her own struggles in all of this.

 

BUT - Gilda was in the public eye, and she was as much of a comic genius as Wilder was. And she also suffered a tragic death, and a very untimely one as well. So it's only natural that she gets some of the attention.

 

RIP Mr. Wilder. You were the music maker, and you were the dreamer of dreams.