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This is really sad.
BREAKING: Gene Wilder, star of ‘Willy Wonka’ and Mel Brooks comedies, is dead at 83, his family says.
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) August 29, 2016
Gene Wilder always reminded me of the opening line of the Rafael Sabatini novel Scaramoush: “He was born with a gift for laughter and a sense that the world was mad.” No one captured that madness better than he.
RIP.
