According to The Telegraph, farmer Tom Pearcy said he designed the maze earlier this summer to mark what would have been the 100th birthday of children’s author Roald Dahl, who wrote “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”.
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“It is nearly unbearable for us to contemplate our life without him”, his nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman said in a statement, adding that Wilder was diagnosed with the disease three years ago but kept the condition private so as not to disappoint fans.
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“Don’t get into an argument with her, because you might kill her”, the doctor told Wilder.
Comedian and presenter Dara O Briain tweeted: “Gene Wilder has died”.
Wilder received to Academy Award nominations, both in Mel Brooks comedies.
The Wall Street Journal recalled that before Wilder became a comic icon, his real name is Jerome Silberman – born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1933.
But it was with ‘Young Frankenstein’ where Gene particularly shined, co-penning the 1974 film with his friend Mel Brooks. “He blessed every film we did together with his special magic and he blessed my life with his friendship”. This parody of the classic horror films has Wilder playing the great-grandson of Dr. Frankenstein, who initially wants to separate himself from his family’s legacy.
He started taking acting classes at age 12 and continued performing and taking lesson through college.
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When one sees Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory before anything else Wilder’s done, you don’t even realize how flawless he was for the role of Willy Wonka until you take in some of his other roles-especially his comedic ones-which highlight just how madcap his humor was. This critique from a grade school teacher stuck with Wilder for many, many years, until he chose to do something about it. That attention to detail was emblematic of the actor’s approach to his candy-man role, as evidenced by a handwritten letter from him to Stuart (via Entertainment Weekly) in which he proposed exhaustive ideas regarding the costume he’d wear in the film.
