RIP Gene Wilder. :(
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Spiderstella
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Very sad news indeed
love all his work R.I.P
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Me too....Oh no! I was really hoping to meet him some day. Sad, sad news!!!
Here's a gem that tends to go under the radar, filmed around the time of Young Frankenstein. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_Sherlock_Holmes'_Smarter_Brother
While I am very sad to see this, he really died when Gilda did. It just took a while for the body to stop twitching. Those of you who have been familiar with him for a long time will know what I mean. When she died, he was just... hollowed out. You could just feel after that that he was trying, but was just kind of going through the motions.
I hope they're together again now, at the Bowie/Prince concert.
NeoRutty... You should probably check out his entire pre-Gilda-dying filmography. The Producers, Willy Wonka, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Silver Streak, and Stir Crazy are definite standouts to me, but I like him in everything he did back then.
--Jonah
I hope they're together again now, at the Bowie/Prince concert.
NeoRutty... You should probably check out his entire pre-Gilda-dying filmography. The Producers, Willy Wonka, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Silver Streak, and Stir Crazy are definite standouts to me, but I like him in everything he did back then.
--Jonah
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I agree. Gene and Gilda were a match made in Heaven. And the chemistry between Gene and Richard was perfect.
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kegas76
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This came as shock to me because he's one of those people I thought already died. :facepalm
Not even Bonnie and Clyde?
Not even Bonnie and Clyde?
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Breaks my heart... Terrible news :'(
B-Movie Zombie
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What sad news. R.I.P Mr. Wilder.
I have to say that me favorite film of his is "Haunted Honeymoon".
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I have to say that me favorite film of his is "Haunted Honeymoon".
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MAKE BELIEVE
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Very sad news
Thank you Gene and may you rest in peace
Thank you Gene and may you rest in peace
Snikt
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Thats kind of what I was thinking. Man, this year has been brutal. I actually gasped when I came across this thread because I didnt know! Such a bummer.
Yeah, I'm from Greenwich CT which is right next to Stamford where he lived the past few decades. He wasn't considered a very nice man by people who actually encountered him on a day to day basis after she died from what I had heard.
I think seeing her waste away slowly from the cancer broke his spirit for a long time, he seemed to have been a bit of a hermit until recently and then his mind started to go. Actually if folks had issues with him recently it could have been part of the issues he suffered. Alzheimer's and dementia cause severe personality shifts at times. My grandma got kinda nasty for a while when her mind started to go.
Oh, here's his home shown during an interview with Larry King from 2002.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/entertain...ot.cnn/video/playlists/celebrities-weve-lost/
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Yeah it was years ago that was the local gossip. I don't know how often he was out and about after the Hodgkins diagnosis and then Alzheimers.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/entertain...ot.cnn/video/playlists/celebrities-weve-lost/
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Yeah it was years ago that was the local gossip. I don't know how often he was out and about after the Hodgkins diagnosis and then Alzheimers.
JediMichael
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At least he was in his 80s, unlike so many other celebritys that are dying much younger. Still sad news.
