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Gene Wilder in Conversation with Wendy Wasserstein at the 92nd Street Y
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Gene Wilder in Conversation with Wendy Wasserstein at the 92nd Street Y
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Publisher's Summary
This event took place on March 22, 2005.
Also, check out Wendy Wasserstein's Heidi Chronicles.
Editorial reviews
Following the release of his acclaimed memoir, Kiss Me Like a Stranger, Gene Wilder sat down for this revealing interview with playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Here, Wilder looks at the struggles behind the laughter, candidly discussing his battles with neuroses, illness, and bereavement. Indeed, Wilder the comedian and Wilder the depressive are two sides of the same coin: His earliest comedic experiments followed his mother’s heart attack, at which point a doctor told the eight-year-old Wilder, "try to make her laugh". Wilder’s discussion of his relationship with Gilda Radner, her death from ovarian cancer, and his own battle with lymphoma, take on added poignancy: Wasserstein, much more animated here than the stoically reflective Wilder, was mere months from her own untimely demise due to lymphoma.