Film4, Now!
― Mark G, Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
alas i am yankish
― mookieproof, Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
shit's sake someone put a NOT RIP in thread title you scared me
― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
career rip
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
I saw a DVD of "Rhinoceros" with Wilder & Mostel. All I remember is Mostel kisses a framed photo of Nixon.
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
Fine Film.
(Did I say that already?)
― Mark G, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
In the DVD commentary they really emphasized what AN AMAZING PIECE of GENIUS UNPARALLED IMPROV that spontaneous Nixon smooch was. It makes me feel like I'll never understand the 1970s. xp to myself
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
it's astonishing how often lines like "then we're awake.. but we're very puzzled" pop into my head.
― piscesx, Monday, 30 April 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtuS0O0tm2M
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
oh no, RIP
― goole, Monday, 29 August 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
he really made me believe he loved that sheep
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
how can gene wilder be dead and johnny depp stlil be alive
the world is not a fair place
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
RIP
― and all the politicians making crazy sounds (snoball), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link
goddammit :(
― i can pee through time (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
btw, underseen: Start the Revolution Without Me
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
This is going to be a horrible day for memes.
― jmm, Monday, 29 August 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:21 (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
yikes, RIP. anyone read any of his books?
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:51 (seven years ago) link
almost entirely unseen: Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx, which is a gentle, whimsical comedy co-starring Margot Kidder, which was also post-Producers, but pre-Wonka. RIP Mr. Wilder.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:51 (seven years ago) link
yeah that used to be on NYC TV in the '70s/80s, never saw more than a few minutes.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
From Mel:
https://twitter.com/MelBrooks/status/770347237280886784
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 August 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
just saw a trailer for Willy Wonka yesterday at Alamo Drafthouse, RIP
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Monday, 29 August 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
says it all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcnSXEvzULk
― piscesx, Monday, 29 August 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
he really makes that Producers climactic courtroom speech ("This is a beautiful man!") work in a counterintuitive way
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 29 August 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
Love this guy so much.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 29 August 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
awwww that's so sweet (mel brooks)
i love that sinatra says "stanley klubrick"
also LOL at rickles referring to john cassavetes as an italian
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 August 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
4ever love...
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c5/eb/d1/c5ebd1fab4447e0df474328af4d913e5.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 29 August 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfVc5MGmIUwatching this at the moment. "I didn't want to do... 3-D for instance"
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 29 August 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
This is very sad and beautiful.
http://i.imgur.com/Hkqs8H1.jpg
https://twitter.com/Clayton_Sandell/status/770353722824220672
― Alba, Monday, 29 August 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
ahhhhh the tears
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Monday, 29 August 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
that's lovely.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 29 August 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
Wow, he hasn't been in a feature film since 1991.
― Alba, Monday, 29 August 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
which I saw in the theater
― Οὖτις, Monday, 29 August 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
He had short-lived sitcom on NBC in the early '90s.
Was just reminded of his small role in Bonnie & Clyde--like a short film unto itself with a perfect punchline.
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 August 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
I register my disappointment and displeasure of this news, here.
― Mark G, Monday, 29 August 2016 23:10 (seven years ago) link
so brilliant. and he had the loveliest speaking voice, i will miss him greatly
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 August 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link
i feel like in a world of straining-to-be-loved (and also straining to be taken seriously as serious clowns) danny kaye/billy crystal/robin williams types, he could be truly sad and poignant and understated AND also just so over-the-top amazingly loud and funny and it seemed so natural to him and there is hardly anyone i can think of who did that and did it so well.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 03:12 (seven years ago) link
otm
― until the next, delayed, glaciation (map), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 03:13 (seven years ago) link
Sam Kinison said he based his stand-up delivery on Gene's YF dynamics
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 03:17 (seven years ago) link
Today I am wearing a black cardboard belt in memory of Gene ;_;
http://watchmeetmake.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1371440730_5-1010x568.jpg
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 10:53 (seven years ago) link
wow Kinison yeah you can totally see it.. that's great.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 11:17 (seven years ago) link
Indeed
― Hop on Pop. 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 11:20 (seven years ago) link
I have messy curly ginger hair today, as a tribute.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 12:28 (seven years ago) link
norman blake tweeted this cliphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgVS1OhucbI&feature=youtu.be
― pinkhushpuppies (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 12:50 (seven years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/rip-gene-wilder-simmering-hysteria-genius.html
Nice writeup, but I always feel sad when critics underrate Cleavon Little
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link
I think the "You know... morons" line would land better if Bart didn't laugh at it, but that would be Pryor style and not Little.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
I mean, Little does well with the 'taking himself hostage' scene but imagine RP doing it.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
Little is good in the relaxed moments but too ..... ?clean? for the lunatic bits
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
btw David Edelstein's Vulture piece otm on what Brooks and Wilder gave each other. Mel's three best films are the ones with GW, and it's not close.
I had forgotten how much Young Frankenstein was Wilder's baby until I heard some of an archival Fresh Air interview today. Brooks hesitated at directing it when it was offered to him.
I haven't seen any of the 4 films Wilder directed, although there is a high-school yearbook photo of me that references Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link