Summary Of Gene Wilders Kiss Me Like A Stranger

Author : Gene Wilder
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429909951
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kiss Me Like A Stranger written by Gene Wilder and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this personal book from the star of many beloved and classic film comedies -- from The Producers to Young Frankenstein, Blazing saddles to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory -- Gene Wilder writes about a side of his life the public hasn't seen on the screen. Kiss Me Like a Stranger is not an autobiography in the usual sense of the word, and it's certainly not another celebrity "tell-all." Instead, Wilder has chosen to write about resonant moments in his life, events that led him to an understanding of the art of acting, and -- more important -- to an understanding of how to give love to and receive love from a woman. Wilder writes compellingly about the creative process on stage and screen, and divulges moments from life on the sets of some of the most iconic movies of our time. In this book, he talks about everything from his experiences in psychoanalysis to why he got into acting and later comedy (his first goal was to be a Shakespearean actor), and how a Midwestern childhood with a sick mother changed him. Wilder explains why he became an actor and writer, and about the funny, wonderful movies he made with Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor, and Harrison Ford, among many others. He candidly reveals his failures in love, and writes about the overwhelming experience of marrying comedienne Gilda Radner, as well as what finally had to happen for him to make a true and lasting commitment to another woman. A thoughtful, revealing, and winsome book about life, love, and the creative process, the New York Times bestseller Kiss Me Like A Stranger is one actor's life in his own words.

Author : Gene Wilder
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312337070
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kiss Me Like A Stranger written by Gene Wilder and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-03-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in his own words, a very personal story from the star of many beloved and classic comedies

Author : Gene Wilder
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007382081
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art written by Gene Wilder and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gene Wilder defined film comedy in the 1970s and '80s. But this is no traditional autobiography, rather it's an intelligent, quirky, humorous account of key events that have affected him in search for love and art.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1669388018
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Gene Wilder's Kiss Me Like A Stranger written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-23T22:59:00Z with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was very nervous when I went to see Margie Wallis, and I couldn’t bring myself to look at her while I was explaining my situation. I was thinking about a 15-year-old girl named Seema Clark while I was talking about my mother and doctors and heart attacks. #2 I was so embarrassed to tell Margie that I had kissed Seema, my sister, on the breast. I was afraid she would think I was like all the other boys, and that she would not want to be with me anymore.

Author : Gene Wilder
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429934301
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is This Thing Called Love? written by Gene Wilder and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The actor and novelist answers this eternal question twelve ways, in stories that explore our most complicated emotion This is a winning collection from an author writing on his favorite topic: love. Each emotionally involving story illuminates a different kind of love: star-crossed, intense, needy, eternal, unrequited, even comical. Gene Wilder's protagonists will be instantly recognizable to his fans: men and women who stumble into relationships that can fulfill them or knock them out cold. Which one it will be depends, often, on the smallest of gestures or reactions. What Is This Thing Called Love includes the stories: • "In Love for the First Time," about a lover so shy and studious that he's a "funny duck" who has to be led by the hand by his equally inexperienced girlfriend • "About Being in Love," featuring coarse but charming Buddy Silverman, who yearns for connection but looks for it in exactly the wrong kind of woman • "The Woman in the Red Hat," who shows a writer who has only explored love in his books what the real thing feels like.

Author : Gene Wilder
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250029600
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something to Remember You By written by Gene Wilder and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Kiss Me Like a Stranger and My French Whore, comes this romantic, dramatic fiction set during World War II. Beloved actor and author Gene Wilder's newest novella, SOMETHING TO REMEMBER YOU BY, begins on Christmas, 1944. In a foxhole in Bastogne, Belgium, the innocent yet charmingly clever protagonist, Corporal Tom Cole, is injured. Wilder moves the action to a romantic wartime London with dimly lit blackout-compliant restaurants and mad dashes to the Tube station at the sound of the air raid sirens where Cole convalesces and falls in love for the first time. But is the mysterious Danish girl he meets at the Shepherdess Café on the up and up? Cole is a cellist back home in the States, and Anna says she's a monitor at the War Office, scanning radio waves for incoming German planes. But is she? When Cole goes to the War Office one day to surprise his new lover, she's nowhere to be found. Wilder's story takes Cole on a quest for the woman he loves but no longer trusts, and ultimately parachutes him, a newly minted intelligence officer, behind enemy lines into a concentration camp to save her life and discover the truth.

Author : Gene Wilder
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312377991
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My French Whore written by Gene Wilder and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the tale of a midwestern World War I soldier whose capture by German forces prompts him to impersonate a famous German spy and pursue a romantic relationship with a beautiful courtesan.

Author : Gene Wilder
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312375782
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman Who Wouldn't written by Gene Wilder and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With warm, tender stories and a spare, elegant writing style, Wilder is back with his second novella. In this new work, his subject is love--both unexpected and complicated.

Author : Gilda Radner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439148864
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's Always Something written by Gilda Radner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh from the Second City troupe in Toronto, Gilda Radner created such memorable characters as Emily Litella and Roseanne Roseannadanna as a member of the original cast of Saturday Night Live. The wife of Gene Wilder, Gilda was plagued by persistent health problems and two miscarriages, and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1986. Brave, funny, and painfully honest, the twentieth-anniversary edition of It's Always Something is the story of Gilda's journey while living with cancer and her determination to continue laughing. "Cancer," she said, "is about the most unfunny thing in the world." But Gilda's gutsy and unique sense of humor never left her as she describes two years of cancer treatment -- surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment, as well as the high and low points of her own career. Told as only Gilda could tell it, and newly revised to include a resource guide for those living with cancer, It's Always Something is the inspiring story of a courageous, funny woman determined to enjoy life no matter the circumstances.

Author : Mel Brooks
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 031631546X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Frankenstein: A Mel Brooks Book written by Mel Brooks and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mel Brooks' own words telling all about the players, the filming, and studio antics during the production of this great comedy classic. The book is alive and teeming with hundreds of photos, original interviews, and hilarious commentary. Young Frankenstein was made with deep respect for the craft and history of cinema-and for the power of a good schwanzstucker joke. This picture-driven book, written by one of the greatest comedy geniuses of all time, takes readers inside the classic film's marvelous creation story via never-before-seen black and white and color photography from the set and contemporary interviews with the cast and crew, most notably, legendary writer-director Mel Brooks. With access to more than 225 behind-the-scenes photos and production stills, and with captions written by Brooks, this book will also rely on interviews with gifted director of photography Gerald Hirschfeld, Academy Award-winning actress Cloris Leachman and veteran producer Michael Gruskoff. Mel Brooks is an American film director, screenwriter, comedian, actor, producer, composer and songwriter. Brooks is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies including The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. More recently, he had a smash hit on Broadway with the musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers. An EGOT winner, he received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award in June 2013, and a British Film Institute Fellowship in March 2015. Three of Brooks' classics have appeared on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list. Blazing Saddles at number 6, The Producers at number 11, and Young Frankenstein at number 13. Judd Apatow is one of the most important comic minds of his generation. He wrote and directed the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin (co-written with Steve Carell), Knocked Up, Funny People, and This Is 40, and his producing credits include Superbad, Bridesmaids, and Anchorman. Apatow is the executive producer of HBO's Girls.