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Its been years since i saw both Hanky Panky and Sherlock holmes smarter brother. Neither make uk tv anymore.
I seem to recall a scene in the latter film where he is in some senior person's office awaiting their arrival and starts eating chocolate or sweets on the desktop - only to get a mouthful that he cant finish or swallow and gets in a right mess - is that right?
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Its been years since i saw both Hanky Panky and Sherlock holmes smarter brother. Neither make uk tv anymore.
I seem to recall a scene in the latter film where he is in some senior person's office awaiting their arrival and starts eating chocolate or sweets on the desktop - only to get a mouthful that he cant finish or swallow and gets in a right mess - is that right?
It is indeed. 
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Thanks mark. I think it stuck out coz it was one of the funniest scenes in the film, to me at the time. Sure would like it to be on tv again soon. After Blazing saddles and young frankenstein, wilder brought a lot of signature slapstick and manic skill to every film thereafter. I guess it was funnier coz you had seen everything on his c.v is what im clumsily trying to say.
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Aug 30, 2016 - 6:56 PM
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ANOTHER YOU was the fourth and final film to co-star Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. It was also the final feature film appearance for Wilder. In their first two movies together, SILVER STREAK (1976) and STIR CRAZY (1980), Gene Wilder received top billing and Richard Pryor got second billing. However, in their final two movies together, this film and SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL (1989), Pryor got first billing with Wilder getting second. Pryor's physical deterioration from multiple sclerosis was clearly noticeable in ANOTHER YOU, and it was his last starring role.
In the film, “George” (Wilder) has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. “Eddie Dash” (Pryor), a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognize George as the missing millionaire “Abe,” Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation. ANOTHER YOU was originally set to take place in New York City. The movie prepped for two months and shot six weeks in New York. On the last night of location filming, director Peter Bogdanovich received a phone call from his agent at about midnight letting him know he was being replaced as director. After reviewing footage with replacement director Maurice Phillips, the producers determined that none of the New York footage was usable, and the script was rewritten to be shot entirely in Los Angeles.
Bogdanovich has said that he and Gene Wilder didn't get along because Bogdanovich devoted most of his time and energy to Richard Pryor, because of his MS. Though Bogdanovich claims that the film had only been green-lit because he had gotten Pryor involved in the first place (the studio not wanting Wilder alone), he believes Wilder successfully campaigned to have him replaced with another director.
The film’s score, by Charles Gross, has not been released. Budgeted at an estimated $17 million, the 1991 film grossed less than $3 million in the U.S., making it one of the least successful films of Wilder’s (or Pryor’s) career.
Following Gilda Radner's death, Wilder became active in promoting cancer awareness and treatment, helping found the Gilda Radner Ovarian Cancer Detection Center in Los Angeles and co-founding Gilda's Club, a support group to raise awareness of cancer that began in New York City and now has branches throughout the country.
While preparing for his role as a deaf man in SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, Wilder met Karen Webb (née Boyer), who was a clinical supervisor for the New York League for the Hard of Hearing. Webb coached him in lip reading. Following Gilda Radner's death, Wilder and Webb reconnected, and on September 8, 1991, they married. The two lived in Stamford, Connecticut, in the 1734 colonial home that he had shared with Radner.
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Aug 30, 2016 - 7:17 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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In 1994, Wilder tried his hand at series television, starring in the situation comedy ”Something Wilder”. In the show, a fifty-something husband, “Gene Bergman” (Wilder), and his wife, “Annie” (Hillary Bailey Smith), who is in her thirties, are learning to cope with raising 4-year-old fraternal twin sons, “Sam” and “Gabe” (Carl Michael Lindner and Ian Bottiglieri).
The premiere of the show was delayed by a few weeks in the Fall of 1994, as a result of casting issues. Jennifer Grey had originally won the role of Annie Bergman, and shot the first pilot. Test audiences, however, disapproved of the age difference between her and Wilder. Grey was let go, but the search for her replacement proved more challenging than expected. Almost down to the wire, NBC was then able to snag acclaimed daytime soap actress and current “One Life to Live” star Hillary Bailey Smith in for the role.
After the series finally premiered on October 1, 1994, on Saturdays at 8/7c, lackluster ratings opposite CBS’s “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” prompted NBC to pull the show after only four episodes had aired. It was relaunched in December in a new Tuesday 8:30/7:30c slot. The series continued steadily for another three months against weak competition, but it did not do much better in the ratings. NBC dropped the show from its lineup again in March 1995, and officially canceled it not long after. Only 18 episodes were filmed.
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Aug 30, 2016 - 7:39 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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In 1999, Gene Wilder had a part in the all-star Hallmark Entertainment television production of ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Tina Majorino played the lead role of “Alice,” and a number of well-known performers portrayed the eccentric characters whom Alice meets during the course of the story, including Ben Kingsley, Ken Dodd, Martin Short, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Ustinov, Christopher Lloyd, Wilder, and Miranda Richardson.
Wilder had the role of the “Mock Turtle,” a weird type of turtle who often cries on remembering his moments at his school in the sea. He sings two songs to Alice: “The Lobster Quadrille” and “Beautiful Soup.” In Lewis Carroll’s book, the Mock Turtle is a cow in a turtle's shell, a pun on the 19th century fad of mock turtle soup, which was cheap beef stew dressed up to resemble expensive turtle soup. In this version, the Mock Turtle is portrayed as a man in a turtle's shell, rendering the name less meaningful.
The original NBC airing of the film averaged a 14.8 household rating and a 22 percent audience share, and was watched by 25.34 million viewers, ranking as the 6th highest rated program that week in terms of households and the most watched program that week in terms of total viewers. Richard Hartley’s score for the film was released by Varese Sarabande.
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Aug 30, 2016 - 8:07 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Wilder’s final major screen appearances were in the 1999 television movies “Murder in a Small Town” and “The Lady in Question.” Both of these were mystery movies for A&E TV that were co-written by Wilder, in which he played a theater director turned amateur detective. Three years later, Wilder guest-starred on two episodes of NBC's “Will & Grace,” winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor on a Comedy Series for his role as Mr. Stein, Will Truman's boss. It was the only acting award he ever won.
After Gene’s retirement, the Wilders spent most of their time painting watercolors, writing, and participating in charitable efforts. On March 1, 2005, Wilder released his highly personal memoir, Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art, an account of his life covering everything from his childhood up to Gilda Radner's death. In a 2008 Turner Classic Movies special, “Role Model: Gene Wilder,” where Alec Baldwin interviewed Wilder about his career, Wilder said that he was basically retired from acting for good. "I don't like show business, I realized," he explained. "I like show, but I don't like the business."
When asked in a 2013 Time Out New York magazine interview whether he would act again if a suitable film project came his way, Wilder responded, "I’m tired of watching the bombing, shooting, killing, swearing and 3-D. I get 52 movies a year sent to me, and maybe there are three good [ones]. That’s why I went into writing. It’s not that I wouldn’t act again. I’d say, 'Give me the script. If it’s something wonderful, I’ll do it.' But I don’t get anything like that."
Wilder died at the age of 83 on August 29, 2016, at home in Stamford, Connecticut, from complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Thanks Gene, for all of the laughs.
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THANK YOU, BOB DiMUCCI!!!
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