I don’t know any, not off the top of my head, do you? Right now, you hear that your favorite actor died, you can come up with a quote that the actor said outside of a movie/tv show, that other people will recognize? Even if you could, why would you? So your friends just pass it by as they scroll through their facebook feed?
That doesn’t quite jive with this statement from his nephew
Sure, “Willy Wonka” isn’t dead he’s pretend, but Gene is dead and Gene is Willy Wonka, so much so that they didn’t tell the world he was sick specifically because they didn’t want people to think that Willy Wonka is sick…specifically for that reason.
Actor here, albeit a mostly amateur and thoroughly small time one. I’d get a kick out of
being remembered as one or more of the characters I’ve played. It’d be proof positive that I’d made a lasting impression on an audience member.
Beautifully put, and absolutely correct. I never met Gene Wilder; why should I mourn him, but not everyone else who died today? What about the nice grocer in Tenafly? And there’s an artist in Fresno who died: why am I not mourning him?
Wilder, through his roles and his work, reached millions, touched them in an almost miraculous way, and transcended the boundary between actor and role. He was Froederick Fronkensteen.
I’m just happy that he and Gilda are together again. And him and Marty and Peter and Madeline and Cleavon are all slaying the crowds (figuratively speaking).
Just because one pronunciation is favored over another, that doesn’t make it the only correct one. They’re both equally cromulent. So, I’ve got your recantation right here.
