Read words from Wilder and Radner on one another, ahead.
“I had been a workaholic.
I’d taken on job after another for ten years.
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Gilda Radner inIt’s Always Something
“When Gilda arrived, I thought she looked radiant.
She was calm, cheerful, sensitive.”
Two-and-three-quarters years, I thought that she would make it.
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And I would say that to her, and she said, ‘Really?’
And I said, I’ll find – ‘Right now, I’ll exchange life spans with you.’
The irony is that I meant it.”
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Gene Wilder to Larry King in 2002
“I ordered stationery that said ‘Gilda Wilder’ and ‘Mr.
I decided I could be them all.
It felt like my life went from black and white to Technicolor.
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Gene was funny and athletic and handsome, and he smelled good.
I was bitten with love.”
The truth is, it was fun.
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It was the best years of my life, truly."
Gene Wilder to Connie Chung in 1990.
In that sense, I’m happier now than when I saw her writhing in pain."
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Gene Wilder to Connie Chung in 1990.
“I’m lucky I’m with a man who isn’t superficial.
I think he was really put to the test.
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Gilda Radner toGlamourmagazine in 1989.
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