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This is the definitive work on the great songwriters who dominated the classical era of American popular music. Uniquely analytical yet engagingly informal, the book draws on over 700 musical examples to demonstrate the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic qualities that distinguish American popular music and transformed it into an authentic art form. Tracing its roots to 1890s ragtime, Wilder shows how the American style was incorporated into mai...

Der Werbemanager Teddy Pierce (Gene Wilder) führt ein zufriedenes Leben und eine glückliche Ehe, bis er die Frau in Rot (Kelly LeBrock) trifft. Die kurze Zufallsbegegnung mit dem hinreißenden Fotomodell katapultiert ihn in eine Welt voll romantischer Fantasien. Teddy ist bereit, alles zu tun, um die betörende Schönheit in sein Leben und in sein Bett zu holen. Es scheint ein Wink des Schicksals zu sein, dass Teddy die aufregende Schöne kurz dar...

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General

Gene Wilder è uno dei più noti attori americani. Ha legato indissolubilmente la propria fama cinematografica a quella di Mel Brooks e dal loro sodalizio Wilder ha guadagnato ben due nomination all'Oscar. Memorabili anche le sue collaborazioni artistiche con Woody Allen e Richard Pryor. È stato sposato con la comica Gilda Radner (una delle protagoniste del mitico show tv Saturday Night Live) dal 1984 fino alla sua prematura scomparsa avvenuta n...

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Cambiare i poli da positivo a negativo e da negativo a positivo. Io solo sono riuscito a scoprire il segreto di infondere la vita, macché, anche di più. Io, proprio io, sono divenuto capace di animare nuovamente la materia inanimata." Prefazione di Francesco Alò. Edizione spciale 40º anniversario di Frankenstein Junior.

Gene Wilder was one of the great comic actors who defined the 1970's and 1980's 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, Wilder's 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...

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Romantic, dramatic fiction set during World War II by the actor and author of Kiss Me Like a Stranger and My French WhoreSomething to Remember You By begins during the siege of Bastogne, Belgium on Christmas Day, 1944. In a foxhole where he is caring for five American soldiers, innocent but clever young medic Corporal Tom Cole is injured. Convalescing in wartime London, with its dimly lit blackout-compliant restaurants and mad dashes to the Tu...

With warm, tender stories and a spare, elegant writing style, Wilder is back with his second novella. In this new work, his subject is love--both unexpected and complicated.

The actor and screenwriter's first work of fiction, set in World War I, delicately and elegantly explores the romance of a young Midwestern enlisted man and the courtesan supplied to him behind enemy lines.

Per gli ultimi romantici è la domanda definitiva: cos'è questa cosa chiamata amore? In questo libro, Gene Wilder ci propone dodici possibili risposte nascondendole tra le righe di altrettanti racconti che parlano di un amore di volta in volta contrastato, travolgente, non corrisposto, timido e anche comico. Con delicatezza, garbo e una semplicità che aggiunge forza alla narrazione, Wilder tratteggia memorabili figure di amanti e corteggiatori,...

For a romantic, it's life's ultimate question: What is This Thing Called Love? Actor and novelist Gene Wilder explores twelve possible answers in this emotionally involving book about different kinds of love: star-crossed, intense, needy, eternal, unrequited and even comical. With delicacy of feeling and a simple style that adds to the power of his fiction, Wilder creates memorable lovers and silly suitors, unexpected attraction and careful co...

Gilda Radner died of ovarian cancer on May 20, 1989. When the New York Times published "Research Links Diet and Infertility Factors to Ovarian Cancer, " by medical writer Larry Altman, on July 25, 1989, Gilda's husband, Gene Wilder, wrote the author to ask some pointed questions. Altman urged him to contact Dr. M. Steven Piver at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York.Wilder and Piver met via telephone and immediately recognize...