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...and dreams. That's what the AT&T 'Rethink' commercial does for me. I can be doing a million other things, but when Gene Wilder's voice starts singing 'Pure Imagination' from 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,' I stop whatever I'm doing, look at the TV,...
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TV Squad
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Can we get a autograph?
Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka) you get nothing. !
GENE WILDER : LIVE ON MARS :
Two out-of-work New Yorkers find themselves incarcerated in a Sun Belt prison for a robbery they didn't commit. Genre: Comedy Released: 1980 Directed by: Sidney Poitier Written by: Bruce Jay Friedman Starring: Richard Pryor - as Harry Monroe Gene Wilder - as Skip Donahue Georg Stanford Brown - as Rory Schultebrand jobeth Williams - as Meredith Miguel Ángel Suárez - as Jesus Ramirez Craig T. Nelson - as Deputy Ward Wilson Barry Corbin - as Warden Walter Beatty Charles Weldon - as Blade Nicolas Coster - as Warden Henry Sampson Joel Brooks - as Len Garber Jonathan Banks - as Jack Graham Erland Van Lidth - as Grossberger Karmin Murcelo - as Teresa Ramirez
Come with me and you'll be In a world of pure imagination Take a look and you'll see Into your imagination We'll begin with a spin Trav'ling in the world of my creation What we'll see will defy Explanation If you want to view paradise Simply look around and view it Anything you want to, do it Want to change the world, there's nothing to it There is no life I know To compare with pure imagination Living there, you'll be free If you truly wish to be If you want to view paradise Simply look around and view it Anything you want to, do it Want to change the world, there's nothing to it There is no life I know To compare with pure imagination Living there, you'll be free If you truly wish to be I do not own rights to this song or this movie.
21/01/2010 Dee D. Jackson intervista Gene Wilder a Matricole e Meteore. After quite a few years of absence from the music scene we can finally enjoy another album by DEE D JACKSON. SPACE and TIME 2010
from-sherlock holmes smarter brother romp bout v funny..shame died so young.
From The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother I own nothing.
From The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother I own nothing.
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...done a number on Holmes before â he was psychoanalyzed by Sigmund Freud in "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" and spoofed by Gene Wilder in "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother." So why shouldn't Ritchie put his London-rogues-and-rascals spin on...
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MSNBC
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Ed and Mike take a look at the new film SHERLOCK HOLMES. Gene Wilder Dead or Alive? Tera Reid in Playboy
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...fluff; funny fluff, sure, but still mindless. “Young Frankenstein,” however, has scenes of utter seriousness, such as Gene Wilder’s speech as he tries to bring Frankenstein to life. There is not a laugh anywhere to be found in that speech. The Blu-Ray comes...
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AndresonVision
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The Frisco Kid was always a favorite movie. Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder were great together and it isn't every day a movie comes along with Yiddish humor. Oy gevalt! That being said, it seems that Yiddish have a few pithy sayings and truisms that
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Big Brass Blog
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This WOMAN IN RED Movie Tribute is a Visual Mix Edit Music Video from Rama Films dedicated to the great talent of Gene Wilder and the beauty and charm of Kelly LeBrock and features some of the very best Sexy Dancing ever filmed. The tribute include the song: PRECIOUS LITTLE BABY from the CD: FLORIDA FANTASY by Becen and The Shells.
This WOMAN IN RED Movie Tribute is a Visual Mix Edit Music Video from Rama Films dedicated to the great talent of Gene Wilder and the beauty and charm of Kelly LeBrock and features some of the very best Sexy Dancing ever filmed. The tribute include the song: PRECIOUS LITTLE BABY from the CD: FLORIDA FANTASY by Becen and The Shells.
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"Victorian Undead" #1 rises from the grave this November
Ian Edginton ("Stormwatch: Post Human Division") is no stranger to the world of Sherlock Holmes. So when WildStorm senior editor Ben Abernathy offered the British writer a crack at telling a tale
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Comic Book Resources
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Gene Wilder (11 June 1933, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) Cloris Leachman (30 April 1926, Des Moines, Iowa, USA) "Young Frankenstein" (1974) de Mel Brooks
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There are not that many comedy movies for Halloween. Most are, as you probably know, gory slash-fests such as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre or the interminable (and intolerable) Friday the Thirteenth series or the equally overblown Nightmare On Elm
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Associated Content
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The Producers 1968 (These are my favorite scenes from the movie ... which just happens to be the entire movie :) ) Zero Mostel Gene Wilder Dick Shawn Written and Directed by Mel Brooks Max Bialystock is a washed up Broadway producer. Leo Bloom is a mousey CPA. When the two meet, their combined expertise points them toward the ultimate scam: Raise more money than you need for a SURE Flop Broadway Show. No one will expect anything back and you can pocket the difference. They need the ultimate bad play to do this. They find it in the Musical Springtime for Hitler. Written by John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}
This WOMAN IN RED Movie Tribute is a Visual Mix Edit Music Video from Rama Films dedicated to the great talent of Gene Wilder and the beauty and charm of Kelly lebrock and features some of the very best Sexy Dancing ever filmed. The tribute includes two songs: YOU DO ME GOOD and PRECIOUS LITTLE BABY from the CD: FLORIDA FANTASY by Becen and The Shells.
This WOMAN IN RED Movie Tribute is a Visual Mix Edit Music Video from Rama Films dedicated to the great talent of Gene Wilder and the beauty and charm of Kelly LeBrock and features some of the very best Sexy Dancing ever filmed. The tribute includes two songs: YOU DO ME GOOD and PRECIOUS LITTLE BABY from the CD: FLORIDA FANTASY by Becen and The Shells.
Emmy-winning interviewer Ernie Manouse sits down with silver screen icon Gene Wilder ("Young Frankenstein", "Silver Streak", "Blazing Saddles", "The Producers") to discuss the difficulties of breaking into show business, the joy of collaborating with Mel Brooks, and his memories of life with late wife Gilda Radner. Every episode of innerviews with Ernie Manouse is available on DVD at houstonpbs.org.
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...a poor kid who loves chocolate, so he's overjoyed by the possibility of indulgence when the mysterious Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) announces a contest that will place five golden tickets in Wonka bars across the world, with the winners getting a lifetime supply...
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Blogcritics.org
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...I’d only watch it when I had to (meaning when the only TV in the house was occupied by a sibling watching it). Anyway, which interpretation do you prefer? The now-classic 1971 film starring Gene Wilder, or the more recent 2005 film starring Johnny Depp?...
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Glam.com
http://www.blisstree.com/chocolatebytes/poll-which-willy-wonka/
Unforgotten Movie, Dance scene with Frankenstein's Monster, classical made in black & white
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...Buy this DVD at Amazon.com Rating: G Starring: Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket Roy Kinnear as Mr. Salt Julie Dawn Cole as Veruca Salt Leonard Stone as Mr. Beauregarde Denise Nickerson as Violet...
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Comingsoon.net
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Gene Wilder in "The World's Greatest Lover' from 1977
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After rain washed out play on Friday, expect to see a full cast of celebrities for the rest of the 2009 US Open.
Alec Baldwin, Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, Ellen Burstyn, Rod Gilbert, Tony Plana, Andy Samberg and Dara Torres will all be making
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US Open Official Site
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Most Electric Company fans remember Gene Wilder providing the voice of Letterman, but his voice work in this cartoon isn't quite as well known. This is from the same studio that produced several other TEC cartoons, including "I Heard a Bird" and the classic "It's the Plumber, I've Come to Fix the Sink".
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This Halloween, if you're not in the mood for one of the 25 Saw installations, try one of the following titles. You will find that scary movies can be good movies too.
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Mel Brooks applies his signature brand of humor to the
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Associated Content
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"It's nothing but rejection," according to actor Gene Wilder, who discusses the difficulties of breaking into the film business and offers advice to anyone who wants to try. This episode aired in season five of innerviews with Ernie Manouse. For complete episodes on DVD, visit houstonpbs.org.
"It's nothing but rejection," according to actor Gene Wilder, who discusses the difficulties of breaking into the film business and offers advice to anyone who wants to try. This episode aired in season five of InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse. For complete episodes on DVD, visit houstonpbs.org.
1986's Haunted Honeymoon starring Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, and Dom Deluise. No Copyright Infringement Intended. ... "Haunted Honeymoon" "Gene Wilder" "Gilda Radner" "Dom Deluise"
Stir Crazy, Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor (jimmy vid mix) get on the bull scene
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...would scoff at that notion. But the fact is, in the 28 years that Gene cared for him, Sur defied the natural laws governing his wilder cousins by never once going into hibernation. Now, on a November day after her husband's death, Marilyn looked into the terrarium...
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Indianapolis Star
http://www.indystar.com/article/20090712/NEWS/907120412/1304/LOCAL
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A certifiable legend – with an emphasis on the “certifiable” part – in the entertainment industry, Mel Brooks was an Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony-winning creator and performer of some of the biggest comedy hits on television, in film, and on
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Hollywood.com
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Starting next week there will be a new feature on The Snob as part of our efforts to increase the intellectual discourse between people of different backgrounds. To kick the series off, we will be starting with the Pryor and Wilder's Racial Rainbow
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To see or not to see? Should Ceal Phelan, playing the role of the insufferably righteous Sister Aloysius in the People's Light & Theatre Company stage version of Doubt, check out Meryl Streep's take on the same character in the recent movie?
Should the
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Philly.com
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cranes! agh! 5-27-09
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In the Woody Allen movie "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex," Gene Wilder plays a doctor who falls in love with a sheep named Daisy. Uncomfortable laughter results when his wife smells barnyard on his breath and catches him fondling a wool
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Detroit Free Press
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Music Festivals
Milwaukee - "Milwaukee Summerfest" is the largest annual outdoor music festival in the country.
Philly - The 2009 Philadelphia Music Festival will feature bands no one cares about and will have a "Red Bull DJ Stage."
Advantage -
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BLAZING SADDLES — Mel Brooks' 1974 Western spoof stars Harvey Korman at his best as a corrupt attorney general who wants to gain control of the soon-to-be-valuable land in the lawless town of Rock Ridge. Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn
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NorthJersey.com
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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) says good-bye at the train station to his fiancé Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn).
28 Layer Stencil of Gene Wilder As Willy Wonka.
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