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August 29 - Let's discuss what happened on that day

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222624) • United States 29 Aug 19

Chop Suey Day Thoughtful Thursday 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle. 1966 - The Beatles perform their last concert before a paying audience at Candlestick Park in San...

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June 11 - Let's discuss what happened on that day

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222624) • United States 11 Jun 19

Corn on the Cob Day 1935 - Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey. 1933 - Gene Wilder (Jerome Sillerman) was born. He was an American actor,...

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Stir Crazy

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43642) • Denver, Colorado 18 Feb 17

In director Sidney Poitier's 1980 comedy, Stir Crazy, Skip Donahue (Gene Wilder,) and Harry Monroe (Richard Pryor) are, respectively, a struggling playwright and struggling actor living in New York City. When both are fired from...

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I will miss Willy Wonka.

Wendy @jerzgirl (9384) • United States 10 Sep 16

I just read an article where the author wrote that Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka became his idealized male role model. His own father was in prison and, at home, there were no real males to look up to for life's guidance. I felt very...

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The reason why Gene Wilder didn't want the public to know....

****DANIELLE**** @VivaLaDani13 (60812) • Perth, Australia 31 Aug 16

I am sure this information has already been put out there long enough for the public to know but I only just found out and felt like discussing it. So sorry if I am just repeating something you already heard. According to what I...

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Wow!

me @dfollin (27267) • United States 29 Aug 16

I have always enjoyed Gene Wilder movies. I cannot say that they were my favorite movies but I did enjoy them. And I was aware that he was married to a comedian, Gilda Radner that had been in a show that I watched on Saturday...

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Gene Wilder

Fishmomma @Fishmomma (11658) • United States 29 Aug 16

Very sad news today, as Gene Wilder was an actor that made me laugh so much for so many years watching Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He made me think of chocolate and having a candy bar with a golden ticket in a different...

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Gene Wilder: Dead at 83

Teresa Trotter @teresatrotter (4073) • Jacksonville, Florida 29 Aug 16

I am sure everyone has heard, or is starting to hear (like me)...that Gene Wilder died yesterday. Most remember him as "Willie Wonka": of "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"... For some reason, I personally never got into...

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R.I.P. Gene Wilder...

STOUTjodee @STOUTjodee (3670) • United States 29 Aug 16

Sunday Gene Wilder died at the age of 83. He was in "Willy Wonka" and "Blazing Saddles." He was married to Gilda Radner, a member of the original NBC show Saturday Night Live. (She died in 1989.) According to the article, he...

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Gene Wilder passes away! :(

****DANIELLE**** @VivaLaDani13 (60812) • Perth, Australia 29 Aug 16

I was literally watching YouTube videos last night on this wonderful man. Listening to some interviews and watching See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Just found out now that he passed away. Aged 83. Not sure how he passed yet. But I am...

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The death of Willy Wonka

fizzytom @fizzytom (752) • Maribor, Slovenia 29 Aug 16

I just heard the news that actor Gene Wilder has died aged 83. Of course, he was the star of many films but I will always remember him as Willy Wonka in the film version of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Yes,...

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Just which Willy Wonka was most like Roald Dahl's Character?

oldchem1 @oldchem1 (8132) 18 May 10

There has been a lot of discussion about which is the best version of Roald Dahl's book Charlie and the Chocolate family - the one with Gene Wilder or the more recent one with Johnny Depp. Personally (although at times he...

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Funniest Part?

anna728 @anna728 (1499) • United States 20 Jul 09

What part of Young Frankenstein do you think is the funniest?

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revellanotvanella @revellanotvanella (4033) • United States 26 Sep 08

I came across the NEW Charlie and the Chocolate Factory today on TV and although I have been avoiding it with a passion because I absolutely L-oved the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and it was perfect to me as a...

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

mandakat @mandakat (879) • Canada 27 Oct 06

Do you prefer the original or the Johnny Depp version? Did you love or hate, one or both? What did you like, or dislike?

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