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Film Review…

Remembering Gene Wilder: A Documentary

By Nils A. Shapiro Wilder in a restaurant for the audiobook version of his 2005 memoir, Kiss Me Like
Almost 20 years ago I read, and thoroughly enjoyed, Kiss the physical image I a Stranger, and works seamlessly here together with the
Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art, the memoir had of him from those film’s scenes of Wilder’s growing-up years in a middle-class
written by actor, writer and director Gene Wilder, who in films was shattered Milwaukee Jewish family and his first big break when Mel
those pages came across as one of the sweetest, gentlest when I realized that Brooks’s wife, Anne Bancroft, tells her husband she suggests
and just plain nicest human beings ever to have graced the he was actually quite the young Wilder be hired for a role in her Broadway play.
American theater and screen. handsome in person, Gene Wilder had been born with the last name of
Like millions of others I had for many years enjoyed his eyes a piercing Silberman. As a young boy he was told by his father that
his performances as a vulnerable, zany, hilarious comedian blue.) his mother had a serious heart condition, could not bear any
in such films as: Young Frankenstein; Blazing Saddles; Having enjoyed stress, and that it was important for the boy to try instead to
The Producers; The Woman in Red; The Frisco Kid; Willy his memoir, when I make his mother laugh as much as possible. That was the
Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and others–and paired noted in late August moment and motivation that set the boy on his life path. As
with Richard Pryor in See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Silver the release of this he later relates, “I didn’t think the name Silberman seemed
Streak. (I should add that after I had moved from New York documentary of his right for the job. I wanted to be wilder!” And that is how the
to Los Angeles in 1981 as a magazine publisher and ran into life on Netflix, I was rest of the world came to know and love him.
drawn to it immediately and, sure enough, amid the many Among those who appear in this film to discuss the Gene
laughs inspired by brief clips of several of these films I shed a Wilder they knew are his widow, Karen Wilder, Mel Brooks,
tear or two as well. Despite all the wonderful humor that was Alan Alda, Carol Kane, Harry Connick Jr., Dick Cavett,
his gift to us, for Gene Wilder himself all of life’s success was producer Mike Medavoy and Ben Mankiewicz, among others.
nothing to laugh at in the end. With all his comedic genius, It is all here, in this documentary: his loves—which
he died on August 29th, 2016 at the age of 83 as the result included an earlier marriage to the Saturday Night Live
of complications from Alzheimer’s. comedienne Gilda Radner, and tragic loss of her to cancer—
Interestingly, although one of the most appealing aspects and his extraordinary successes as an actor, writer and
of this documentary is the fact that Wilder himself narrates director. Now this documentary of his life has won numerous
the story of his childhood and start in show business. Yet awards, among the most recent the Best Documentary Feature
the actual production of the film did not begin until years at the 2024 Boca International Jewish Film Festival.
after Wilder’s death. It turns out the narration used in the Remembering Gene Wilder. You won’t forget it for the
documentary was picked up from the one Wilder had made many memories it will bring back to you.

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Center surpassed its 100th orthopedic
case using the advanced ROSA ®
Robotics Knee System earlier this
month. The milestone minimally
invasive procedure was performed by
board-certified orthopedic surgeon
Harvey E. Montijo, Jr., M.D. Dr.
Montijo, Jr. also performed the first
procedure at the hospital using the
ROSA Robotics Knee System less
®
than one year ago.
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