BDE Gene Wilder | Imamother

PinkFridge

Mon, Aug 29 2016, 4:03 pm

At age 83, from complications of Alzheimer's. .

water_bear88

Mon, Aug 29 2016, 4:06 pm

BDE.

MrsDash

Mon, Aug 29 2016, 4:13 pm

Oh that's awful 🙁 He was one of a kind! I loved him in Young Frankenstein. A very talented comedic actor! 😢😢

FranticFrummie

Mon, Aug 29 2016, 4:32 pm

He was truly an original and a genius. He will be deeply missed. Crying

Fox

Mon, Aug 29 2016, 4:35 pm

So sad to hear this! BDE.

Ema of 5

Mon, Aug 29 2016, 5:10 pm

They don't make em like they used to....

rainbow dash

Mon, Aug 29 2016, 6:37 pm

So sad will miss him

greenfire

Mon, Aug 29 2016, 6:40 pm

oy shEit !!!

greenfire

Mon, Aug 29 2016, 6:57 pm

worth the read

http://www.tabletmag.com/scrol.....o-you

PinkFridge

Mon, Aug 29 2016, 7:41 pm

greenfire wrote:

worth the read

http://www.tabletmag.com/scrol.....o-you

Sad. There's a whole generation plus that got lost.

DrMom

Tue, Aug 30 2016, 12:16 am

BDE.

debsey

Tue, Aug 30 2016, 2:12 pm

Wow - a little sad how estranged he was from all yiddishkeit has to offer, especially when he and gilda Radnor both suffered so much at the end of their lives. A real "tinok she nishbah"

sourstix

Tue, Aug 30 2016, 2:16 pm

[quote="greenfire"]oy shEit !!![/quote]

please explain

debsey

Tue, Aug 30 2016, 2:22 pm

sourstix wrote:

please explain

a memorable quote from the movie Frisco Kid, where Gene Wilder plays a Polish rabbi on the Prairie and befriends a cowboy. By today's standards, fairly clean and very funny.

greenfire

Tue, Aug 30 2016, 2:42 pm

greenfire wrote:

oy shEit !!!

sourstix wrote:

please explain

on their way to san fransisco to join in the gold rush hence the name of the movie the frisco kid - the jew & the cowboy switch their expressions mit a jewish accent - gene wilder's character avram said 'oy shEit' and ford harrison aka tommy said 'oy gevald'

I was paying homage

admittedly it's a quote I use often Wink

sourstix

Tue, Aug 30 2016, 2:49 pm

I thought I was a typo. and I wonder how to pronounce it.

PinkFridge

Thu, Sep 08 2016, 6:15 pm

A YIDDISH POEM by Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman)

Yiddish was the secret code, therefore I don't farshtaist,
A bisseleh maybe here and there, the rest has gone to waste.
Sadly, when I hear it now, I only get the gist,
My Bubbe spoke it beautifully; but me, I am tsemisht.
So oi vei as I should say, or even oy vai iz mir,
Though my pisk is lacking Yiddish, it's familiar to my ear.
And I'm no Chaim Yonkel , in fact I was shtick naches,
But, when it comes to Yiddish though, I'm talking out my tuxxxs.
Es iz a shandeh far di kinder that I don't know it better
(Though it's really nishtgefelecht when one needs to write a letter).
But, when it comes to characters, there's really no contention,
No other linguist can compete with honorable mentshen:
They have nebbishes and nebechels and others without mazel,
Then, too, schmendriks and schlemiels, and let's not forget schlemazel.
These words are so precise and descriptive to the listener,
So much better than "a pill" is to call someone 'farbissener'.
Or - that a brazen woman would be better called Choleria,
And you'll agree farklempt says more than does hysteria.
I'm not haken dir a tshainik and I hope I'm not a kvetch,
But isn't mieskeit kinder, than to call someone a wretch?
Mitten derinnen, I hear Bubbe say, "It's nechtiker tog, don't fear,
To me you're still a maven, zol zein shah, don't fill my ear.
A leben ahf dein keppele, I don't mean to interrupt,
But you are speaking narishkeit.....
And ...A gezunt auf dein kop!"