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Wilder began his career on stage, making his screen debut in the film Bonnie and Clyde in 1967. His first major role was as Leo Bloom in the 1968 film, The Producers. This was the first in a series of prolific collaborations with writer/director Mel Brooks, including 1974's Young Frankenstein, the script of which garnered the pair an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Wilder is known for his portrayal of Willy Wonka on Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and for his four films with Richard Pryor: Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), and Another You (1991). Wilder has directed and written several of his films, including The Woman in Red (1984).

His marriage to actress Gilda Radner, who died from ovarian cancer, led to his active involvement in promoting cancer awareness and treatment, helping found the Gilda Radner Ovarian Cancer Detection Center in Los Angeles and co-founding Gilda's Club.

In more recent years, Wilder turned his attention to writing, producing a memoir in 2005, Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art, and the novels My French Whore (2007) and The Woman Who Wouldn't (2008).
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In this book, Wilder 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) 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 actor's search for truth and a thoughtful analysis of why the choices he made-some of them so serendipitous they were practically accidental-changed the course of his life. </DIV></DIV>]]> 6618 3.67 971 286 2005 215707 0312360576 9780312360573 108 <![CDATA[My French Whore: A Love Story]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172779386m/215707.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172779386s/215707.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215707.My_French_Whore_A_Love_Story 3.57 321
As the urbane and accomplished spy Harry Stroller, Peachy has access to a world he could never have known existed—a world of sumptuous living, world-weary men, and available women. But when one of those women—Annie, a young, beautiful and wary courtesan—turns out to be more than she seems, Peachy’s life is transformed forever.</div></div>]]> 6618 3.67 971 286 2007 2000496 0312375786 9780312375782 56 <![CDATA[The Woman Who Wouldn't]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2000496.The_Woman_Who_Wouldn_t 3.57 134


Clara is so beautiful that Jeremy finds it impossible to keep from trying to find a chink in her extraordinary reserve and elegance. He finds himself reflexively flirting to get a reaction—after all, a tease and a wink have always worked before, with women back home. But flirting probably isn’t the best way to appeal to a woman who was married to a dumb brute and doesn’t want to have anything more to do with men. Jeremy isn’t sure how to press his case—but he won’t give up.



Wilder’s prose is elegant, spare and affecting. But it’s his romantic’s eye for the intense emotions that animate a real love story that makes The Woman Who Wouldn’t an unforgettable book.

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This remarkable collaboration will help women feel more hopeful, and less scared and alone, when faced with ovarian cancer.]]> 126490 4.00 2 0 6618 3.67 971 286 1996 6789723 0312598904 9780312598907 0 <![CDATA[What Is This Thing Called Love?]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6789723-what-is-this-thing-called-love 0.0 0 6618 3.67 971 286 2010 1359365 0793139414 9780793139415 0 <![CDATA[The 100 Best Internet Stocks to Own for the Long Run]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1359365.The_100_Best_Internet_Stocks_to_Own_for_the_Long_Run 0.0 0 A diversified stock portfolio incorporates the best of the Internet economy; and Gene Walden shows how to achieve such diversity within the unique sectors of this high-tech economy. He discusses Internet infrastructure, ISPs and portals, e-tailing, e-commerce, online media, holding companies and more.

While no investment is risk-free, applying stringent investment criteria to those companies that make up this Internet economy Walden scrutinizes for the cream of the crop. Companies must show earnings progression, revenue growth, stock growth, consistency, and stability / vulnerability. For each company, Walden provides contact information, company profile, revenue, earnings and bar chart of stock growth.

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