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RIP Gene Wilder

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Flip Wilson, Aug 29, 2016.

  1. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Exactly what my first thought was, too.
     
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  2. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    He could have done nothing but Blazing Saddles in his life and I'd remember him forever. But he did so much more.

    Another piece of life torn away. RIP.
     
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  3. doctorx

    doctorx Member

    Play chess ... screw.
     
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  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Joan Severance went on to a late-night Cinemax career. It's worth checking out.

    RIP to Wilder. For some reason, probably because it was one of the first movies I saw above my age range when we got pay cable, Silver Streak sticks out.

    Funny/painful aside about See No Evil, Hear No Evil: I waited two years to date this girl in high school because, when I had finally built up the nerve to ask her out, I turned the corner in the hall and saw her walking with an older guy. They stayed together the entire time until he went off to college. My senior year (her junior), we went to Homecoming together, and that movie was one of the dates we went on ahead of it. Get to the climactic moment where Joan Severance is speaking to the as-yet-unidentified boss, and she says "Yes, Mr. Sutherland." THAT WAS MY RIVAL'S LAST NAME! She broke up with me three days after Homecoming and took up with him again.
     
  5. albert77

    albert77 Well-Known Member

    I always got the feeling watching Blazing Saddles that parts of it, particularly the scenes with Wilder and Cleavon Little, were completely ad-libbed. Like Mel gave them a scenario and told them to just make it up as they went along.

    Anyway, RIP to one of the great comedic talents of our generation.
     
  6. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

  7. BadgerBeer

    BadgerBeer Well-Known Member

    I was 9 or 10 when I saw Willy Wonka and the Pure Imagination scene was wonderful then and it is wonderful today. He was able to present so many emotions with that scene, he was absolutely brilliant.
     
  8. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Believe his first acting job was Bonnie & Clyde.

    His skit with the sheep in Everything you wanted to know about sex but afraid to ask was also classic

    RIP a comic genius
     
  9. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    Boy did I love his work in the 70's and 80's. Blazing Saddles, Stir Crazy, the Woman in Red, Young Frankenstein. Willy Wonka may have been his most famous, but I did not enjoy his creepy Wonka as much. Thank you for the laughs Mr. Wilder, may you RIP.

    Forgot Silver Streak! When he put on the blackface, that's the only time I"ve ever laughed at someone with blackface (he was supposed to be pretending to be black).
     
  10. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Sedagive!
     
  11. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Well, let's play chess.
     
  12. Den1983

    Den1983 Active Member

    Indeed. Great, great movie. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is a lasting memory from my childhood, and Wilder is a big reason why.
     
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