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Gene Wilder

    Ontdek een auteur wiens werken onvergetelijk komisch genie en buitengewone creativiteit belichamen. Zijn vroege podiumsuccessen vertaalden zich naar het witte doek, waar hij een onuitwisbare indruk achterliet met iconische rollen en een uniek komisch gevoel. Samenwerkingen met toonaangevende filmmakers resulteerden in tijdloze films die een genre definieerden en het publiek wereldwijd blijven vermaken. In zijn latere jaren wijdde hij zich aan het schrijven, waarbij hij thema's als liefde en kunst verkende met zijn kenmerkende stem en inzichten uit zijn leven deelde.

    Kiss Me Like a Stranger
    Crown of Bones
    • Crown of Bones

      • 400bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      Raise. Your. Phantom. In a world on the brink of the next Great Dying, no amount of training can prepare us for what is to come... A young heir will raise the most powerful phantom in all of Baiseen. A dangerous High Savant will do anything to control the nine realms. A mysterious and deadly Mar race will steal children into the sea. And a handsome guide with far too many secrets will make me fall in love. My name is Ash. A lowly scribe meant to observe and record. And yet I think I’m destined to save us all.

      Crown of Bones
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    • Kiss Me Like a Stranger

      My Search for Love and Art

      • 272bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      Gene Wilder is one of the great comic actors who defined the 1970s and 1980s in movies. From his early work with Woody Allen to the rich group of movies he made with Mel Brooks to his partnership on screen with Richard Pryor, Wilders performances are still discussed and celebrated today. Kiss Me Like A Stranger is an intimate glimpse of the man behind the image on the screen. In this book, Wilder talks about everything from his experiences in psychoanalysis to why he got into acting to how a midwestern childhood with a sick mother changed him. He writes about the creative process on stage and on screen, and divulges moments from life on the sets of the some of the most iconic movies of our time. He also opens up about his love affairs and marriages, including his marriage to comedian Gilda Radner. But the core of Kiss Me Like A Stranger is an actors search for truth and a realization of why the choices he madesome of them so serendipitous they were practically accidentalchanged the course of his life.

      Kiss Me Like a Stranger