RIP: Gene Wilder 1933-2016

[erfalf]

Legendary. He will continue to bring happiness to this world well beyond his time on it.

[Conan71]

"You brought me an abnormal brain?!?!?"  My sail boat was named "Abby Normal".

The three most memorable roles for me were Willy Wonka, Young Frankenstein, and Blazing Saddles.  A truly gifted actor.

[Hoss]

"You brought me an abnormal brain?!?!?"  My sail boat was named "Abby Normal".

The three most memorable roles for me were Willy Wonka, Young Frankenstein, and Blazing Saddles.  A truly gifted actor.

The sad thing was how early he lost his wife, the equally hilarious Gilda Radner.  I'm not much to believe in the afterlife, but if any couple deserves to be reunited in one, they would be it.

[dbacksfan 2.0]

[dbacksfan 2.0]

[erfalf]

In memoriam, Blazing Saddles was screened at our home last night (after the kids went do bed of course). It's not necessarily what he says, but how he says it that makes him so enjoyable to watch.

[cannon_fodder]

I said good day, sir!

[sauerkraut]

My favorites were "Silver Streak"  &  "Blazing Saddles" I wonder how many "takes" they had to do on some of those scenes must of been hard to say your lines with a straight face. In "Silver Streak" Gene says "The Professor was murdered, but I guess it  was only my imagination" and Ned Beatty says "It wasn't your imagination the professor really was murdered last night". I also enjoyed "See No Evil Hear No Evil" from 1989. the film stared the beautiful Joan Severance, she was just dazzling in that film with her legs. I never saw that Frankenstein film though.

[sauerkraut]

Gene was very close to his wife who died of breast cancer in 1989, that was a tuff time for him.

[dbacksfan 2.0]

Gene was very close to his wife who died of breast cancer in 1989, that was a tuff time for him.

Not even close.

After experiencing severe fatigue and suffering from pain in her upper legs on the set of Haunted Honeymoon in the United Kingdom in 1985, Radner sought medical treatment. For a period of 10 months, doctors, most of them in Los Angeles, gave her several diagnoses that all turned out to be wrong as she continued to experience pain.
During the 10 months, she faced hardships such as the publication of the highly publicized book about Saturday Night Live by Hill and Weingrad, which provided many details about her eating disorder, as well as the financial failure of Haunted Honeymoon. It grossed only $8,000,000 in the United States, entering the box office at number 8, then slipping to 14 the following week. As she wrote in It's Always Something, "On July 26 [1986], Haunted Honeymoon opened nationwide. It was a bomb. One month of publicity and the movie was only in the theaters for a week – a box-office disaster."
Finally, on October 21, 1986, Radner was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer. "She immediately underwent surgery and had a hysterectomy," said a 2009 article by Jenny Song in a magazine published by the American Association for Cancer Research. "On Oct. 26," the article continued, "surgeons removed a grapefruit-size tumor from her abdomen." Then she began chemotherapy and radiation therapy treatment, as she wrote in It's Always Something, and the treatment caused extreme physical and emotional pain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilda_Radner

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0705717/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

[heironymouspasparagus]

He had a wife now.   Is polygamy allowed in heaven, I wonder...??