Gene Wilder

I was very sad to hear that Gene Wilder had died. He made some of my favourite films, "The Producers", "Blazing Saddles", "Young Frankenstein" and of course those amazing films with Richard Pryor, "Silver Streak", "Stir Crazy", "See No Evil, Hear No Evil", amongst others.

There are certain comedians that I return to, the Marx Brothers, early Steve Martin, Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder. I have never seen a film of his that I didn't like and surprisingly I do have "Pure Imagination" on my phone, sandwiched between "Psycho" by Ricky Warwick and "Pure Morning" by Placebo. "Pure Imagination is a wonderful song, I adore it and it matches nicely with "Let's Go Fly A Kite" which I also have on my phone.

Just so you can remember how great "Pure Imagination" is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVi3-PrQ0pY

His family commented on why he kept his Alzheimer's diagnosis quiet, he wanted children to remember him as Willy Wonka and not have to face adult illness, and they finished with this:

"He simply couldn't bear the idea of one less smile in the world."