RIP Gene Wilder

[fasstrack]

Age 83...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nephew-gene-wilder-star-mel-brooks-movies-dies-192526715.html

[crisp]

Sad. A very distinctive and subtle comic. I saw him on stage in London in Laughter on the 23rd floor. The play was more interesting than good but I'm glad I saw Wilder.

[JSngry]

RIP. Without knowing him personally, I still instinctively felt that he represented the ability to simultaneously possess both a wicked wit and a gentle spirit. How he spoke of Gilda up until the end...that always seemed to be coming from a deep place.

Gonna miss him.

[fasstrack]

'it's only a minor compulsion. I can deal with it if I want to'...

[CJ Shearn]

Sad. My mom loved "The Producers" and "Young Frankenstein" especially.  The former never failed to make her laugh no matter how many times she saw it.  She always used to call a quick tomato sauce she made "the "quick sauce" with a German accent, in reference to the "quick fuse" line

[fasstrack]

4 hours ago, CJ Shearn said:

   She always used to call a quick tomato sauce she made "the "quick sauce" with a German accent, in reference to the "quick fuse" line

'ZE QVICK FUSE!'... 

[Hardbopjazz]

Sad. RIP Gene.

[robertoart]

Nobody made me laugh growing up like Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Gentle humour is right. The Producers is my favourite comedy of all time. 

[ghost of miles]

"Abby someone"

[mjzee]

Brushes with fame: he lived about a half mile away from us when we lived in Stamford.  I think I saw him one morning getting his mail.

I saw The Producers in my neighborhood movie theater when it first came out.  About a half minute was subsequently edited out; it has to do with "Ze Qvick Fuse!" referenced above.  In the edited version, the theater blows up after "Ze Qvick Fuse!"  In the original version, Bialystock, Bloom and Liebkind catch the fuse before it reaches the dynamite.  They then rewire the bomb using the slow fuse, then walk down the alley to go to a hiding spot.  As they do, the drunk in the bar (William Hickey) stumbles up to the plunger, lifts his foot, says "Shine 'em up!" and steps down on it, blowing up the theater.

[fasstrack]

Uh huh. Didn't know that...

[BFrank]

Mel Brooks is on the Tonight Show tonight.

[Jazzmoose]

I've seen a lot of references to various roles on the net today, but no one mentions Bonnie and Clyde.  It was just a short role, but it's pure Wilder and shouldn't be missed!

[king ubu]

[Dan Gould]

Sad news. I was surprised I haven't seen an obit that mentioned the fact that the "Puttin on the Ritz" scene in Young Frankenstein was Gene's idea and that Mel Brooks hated it - at first.