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Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman
Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman
Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman shared the same agent, but didn’t know each other. One day Marty was introduced to Gene over the phone who announced he was writing a part for him in a screenplay called “Young Frankenstein.” Marty said “sounds great,” never expecting to hear about this again. After all, the film was just a notion, hadn’t been set up.
Nevertheless, Gene sent Marty pages, specifically the sequence wherein “Aye-gore” meets “Dr. Fronkenstein.” Many months later, this would be the first scene the two men shot together.
Gene Wilder was a man of his word. That turned him, in the words of Marty’s wife Lauretta, into “a saint.” That sainthood would be confirmed further down the road.
Gene went to bat for Marty since Mel Brooks “eyed” playing the role of the hunchback himself, but Wilder was steadfast. He only wanted Brooks to direct. By relegating leading man duties to Wilder and remaining behind the camera, Mel Brooks wrought his best work as a filmmaker.
Marty was nervous shooting his first scene in a major Hollywood movie with an established star that’d co-written the script, but Gene instantly approved of everything Marty was doing. This emboldened Marty to pause before delivering the classic line “What hump?” Mel Brooks kvetched “You can drive a truck through that pause,” but Gene and Marty melded into a comedy team with inimitable rhythm. Gene’s bewildered exasperation got the laugh after “What hump?” when he said: “Let’s go.”
Marty felt relaxed enough to improvise “walk this way” as a joke for the crew. Mel instructed him to “leave it in.” Marty explained he was just “screwing around” and how it was “a terrible old joke.” Mel Brooks decreed “it’s funny” and, as Marty would later attest, his instincts were always right.
Gene had trouble completing takes without cracking up. Marty found it lovely to have a leading man that found his fellow actors so funny. Marty also had insight: Since this was the first produced screenplay Wilder had co-written… he was also enjoying his own words.
Marty was floored by the finished product, especially Gene’s performance. On set Wilder was an actor struggling to get through takes without laughing, but on the big screen, playing the title role… Gene Wilder had reached comic nirvana.
Marty recounted how Wilder once mentioned that he never wanted to “act like some asshole movie star” and never did. Marty was thrilled when Gene told him he was writing another part for him, this time in “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother” which Wilder directed on Feldman’s home turf of the UK.
Many years later, Marty passed away at the age of 48. I didn’t see Gene Wilder at the funeral, but decades later Marty’s widow told me a story that confirmed her appraisal of the man. It’s something that’s never ever been written. Wilder called Lauretta after the memorial, concerned not just about her emotional well-being, but fiscal.
“Do you own your home?” asked Wilder. Lauretta replied “no, why?” “Because if you need me to,” Wilder offered, “I’ll buy it for you.”
“Virtue is the truest nobility.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
Gene Wilder played many characters in his lifetime, but the best role he ever played was himself.
Defenceless Does Not Work
Only guns in the hands of good guys will stop bad guys with guns. The government should not have a monpoly on force. Going by statistics they should be the FIRST ones we disarm! But on an emotive issue that’s too logical for most.
Why the CNN Fake News & Others are a Major Threat to Democracy
We think of false information as a domestic problem that Trump is in the battle with CNN and the term “fake news” is just political talk. It’s far more dangerous than that. The history books confirm that the Spanish American War was created by the press falsely reporting an attack that never took place.
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Seriously wise words! Warning, brought a tear to my eye!
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STUDY PROVES THAT CUDDLING BABIES EARLY (AND OFTEN) HAS HUGE BENEFITS
(They still haven’t got it right. They talk about the brain rather than the being but at least they are recognising the merits of love and communication, verbal and tactile.)
The researchers found that overall, premature babies were more likely to have a reduced response to touch than their full-term counterparts. The preemies who had more exposure to painful medical procedures were also more likely to have a reduced response to touch. But preemies who were exposed to what the researchers call “gentle touch” had a stronger response than the preemies who did not receive this contact — and the researchers found that this kind of touch could have positive and long-lasting effects on these babies.
“Our findings add to our understanding that more exposure to these types of supportive touch can actually impact how the brain processes touch, a sense necessary for learning and social-emotional connections,” lead study author Dr. Nathalie Maitre tells Reuters.
In a phone conversation with Babble, Dr. Maitre explains that what the researchers were looking at specifically was “intentional supportive touch,” meaning that the touch had to be from caregivers who were touching the babies as an act of nurturing (i.e., not just diapers changes, feeding, or for other various medical procedures). This included direct skin-to-skin contact.
Dr. Maitre says that “intentional supportive touch,” is “absolutely crucial to babies’ developing brains.” She explains to Babble that for infants, touch is the one of the first senses that develops, before hearing or sight, therefore making it the “building block in early infancy of communication.”
Dr. Maitre, who also happens to be the mom of two boys herself, explains that her study looked primarily at how the power of touch impacts premature babies, but that all babies benefit from it.
“Gentle touch, especially skin on skin, is just one of the most important things parents can do for their babies,” she tells Babble.
In other words: All you new moms and dads out there can breathe a giant sigh of relief — and ignore everything you’ve ever heard about “spoiling” a baby with attention and cuddles. There is just no way to hold a baby too much. Really and truly. No freaking way.