Word: wildered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 with William Holden and Otto Preminger, Friday, March...
Given enough patience and endurance, readers can piece together several contradictory Faulkners strewn through Blotner's chronicle. There was the country humorist whose quips kept strangers at bay. (After listening to Thornton Wilder eagerly discuss the meaning of the title Light in August, Faulkner replied: "You know I never thought of that. It just sounded pretty.") The loving father vies with the tyrant who once told his daughter Jill: "Nobody remembers Shakespeare's children." Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech rang with hope: "I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail." Yet at practically...
...Gene Wilder, who appears late in the film as a drunk ex-gunslinger, adds some lustre to the cast. He is a veteran of Brook's The Producers (1968) and The Twelve Chairs (1970), both of which--like Blazing Saddles--were blessed in potential and mangled in execution. Considerations of loyalty and ability should have motivated Brooks to write a bigger part for Wilder, who is one of the most accomplished young comedians in American movies...
...Theophilus North, Wilder...
Sunset Boulevard (1951), is one of the best films about Hollywood, and also one of Billy Wilder's best films. Set in an incredible Hollywood mansion, it captures the spirit of early-50s-just-outside-the-mainstream-of-Hollywood cynicism...