RIP...

Gene Wilder....age 83.

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Originally posted by irwin:
Gene Wilder....age 83.

Deserves its own thread. Comic brilliance.

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Originally posted by Jcocktosten:

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Originally posted by irwin:
Gene Wilder....age 83.

Deserves its own thread. Comic brilliance.

Interesting, his list of movies roles is actually very small. Remember his first movie turn as the undertaker in Bonnie and Clyde when it came out--perhaps the only thing I liked about the movie. Of course The Producers is his high water mark. Had a strange short time with terminally ill Gilda Radner--but he was there for her no matter how difficult it got.

And am I the only person who saw, Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx? In the theater no less.

Producers
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Willy Wonka
Silver Streak
Frisco Kid - a personal favorite
Stir Crazy - dumb but Prior and Wilder together was hilarious to me as a 10-12 year old.

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Originally posted by Jcocktosten:

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Originally posted by irwin:
Gene Wilder....age 83.

Deserves its own thread. Comic brilliance.

+1 Sad to hear. His family's official comment is interesting and warm hearted.

I hope Gene finds Gilda. RIP

Once again, I disagree. I found his over-acting intolerable and his reliance on constant smiling obnoxious. I'm sorry to hear of his passing, but I will continue to avoid his movies.

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Originally posted by DoubleD:
I hope Gene finds Gilda. RIP

This.

PH

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Originally posted by The Old Man:
Interesting, his list of movies roles is actually very small. Remember his first movie turn as the undertaker in Bonnie and Clyde when it came out--perhaps the only thing I liked about the movie.

Really?? Great movie with excellent performances by so many, even Beatty.

RIP Margrit Mondavi
Best to her family and friends.

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Originally posted by indybob:
RIP Margrit Mondavi
Best to her family and friends.

Yes indeed. She was interviewed in the documentary Somm: Into the Bottle, which I just watched last night. She came across as an articulate, intelligent, gracious woman.

Hugh O'Brian, Wyatt Earp from my youth.

This is a bit after the fact, but while doing a bit of Googling on song writing credits, I discovered that Chips Moman died this past June 13.
His name may not be familiar, but the songs you will all recognize.
Always on my mind et.al.

Moses Malone - the Fo, Fo, Fo prediction did not quite come true for my 76ers, but Fo, Fi, Fo was not too shabby. Thanks for the Championship - a thrill of my childhood.

Edward Albee, what a life and what a playwright you were.

Pulitzer Prize winner in three different decades and a very giving professor at the University of Houston.

R.I.P.

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Originally posted by wine+art:
Edward Albee, what a life and what a playwright you were.

Pulitzer Prize winner in three different decades and a very giving professor at the University of Houston.

R.I.P.

A huge loss of a great talent.

RIP 2016 Yankee season

Oliver, the sweetest dog we've ever had.

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Originally posted by Vino Bevo:
Oliver, the sweetest dog we've ever had.

Sorry to read this, VB.

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Originally posted by Vino Bevo:
Oliver, the sweetest dog we've ever had.