"I can't pass for Black!
Posted on 08/29/2016 12:27:39 PM PDT by Carriage Hill
Gene Wilder, who regularly stole the show in such comedic gems as “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and “Stir Crazy,” died Monday at his home in Stamford, Conn. His nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman said he died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 83.
He had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1989.
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Wow ... smiling and crazy-haired to the very end.
I loved this guy.....my Lord....what a talent the lord sent us. Truly a man, an American for all seasons. Gene Wilder.....RIP!!!! There are so many scenes, from your tons of movies, that I and millions of folks around the world enjoyed so much. God bless you forever....as you enter his kingdom of glory and everlasting life!!!
I will miss the Candy Man.
(including Bonnie and Clyde)
Don’t sell that cow!
I think I enjoyed his role as the rabbi traveling west to San Francisco as much as any of his characters.
Funny man. I miss him and Gilda.
RIP A great actor who will be missed
Stir crazy was their best in my opinion. I can see this conversation.
I didn’t think he was that old.
...
That was my first reaction.
"I can't pass for Black!
That was the message I saw too
Aging can be so cruel. He hardly resembles the man who made so many laugh.
I dunno.....seems like another work of the paparazzi scum to me.
Like the ones who zoom in on Kirstie Alley’s ass whenever she goes out to work in her garden. What did the woman ever do to THEM??
Looking at that pic Marty Feldman doesn’t look as old as I remembered him.I just realized how much time has passed since I first watched Young Frankenstein at a movie theater. Damn I’m getting old...lol
NEVER!!!!!!..........................
"Could be worse......could be raining."
Had a terrible crush on him—
Sure there's wrinkles ... but that is the one and only Gene Wilder, almost unchanged ... down to the pixie smile.
Actually Depp’s Wonka was closer to the book. Wonka was a much darker character than Wilder portrayed him as.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Love is the only thing that can save this poor creature, and I am going to convince him that he is loved even at the cost of my own life. No matter what you hear in there, no matter how cruelly I beg you, no matter how terribly I may scream, do not open this door or you will undo everything I have worked for. Do you understand? Do not open this door.
Inga: Yes, Doctor.
Igor: Nice working with ya.
[Dr. Frederick Frankenstein goes into the room with The Monster. The Monster wakes up]
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Let me out. Let me out of here. Get me the hell out of here. What's the matter with you people? I was joking! Don't you know a joke when you hear one? HA-HA-HA-HA. Jesus Christ, get me out of here! Open this goddamn door or I'll kick your rotten heads in! Mommy!
Aww. I always liked him.
But now he can be with his beloved Gilda... I think when she died, she took half of his joy, humor and talent with her. Still funny and likable, it seemed as if he was just going through the motions after that.
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