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Gene Wilder

    Découvrez un auteur dont les œuvres incarnent un génie comique inoubliable et une créativité extraordinaire. Ses premiers succès sur scène se sont traduits à l'écran, où il a laissé une marque indélébile avec des rôles emblématiques et une touche comique unique. Les collaborations avec des cinéastes de premier plan ont abouti à des films intemporels qui ont défini un genre et continuent de divertir le public du monde entier. Dans ses dernières années, il s'est tourné vers l'écriture, explorant les thèmes de l'amour et de l'art avec sa voix distinctive, partageant les perspectives de sa vie.

    Kiss Me Like a Stranger
    Crown of Bones
    • Crown of Bones

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Raise. Your. Phantom. In a world on the brink of the next Great Dying, no amount of training can prepare us for what is to come... A young heir will raise the most powerful phantom in all of Baiseen. A dangerous High Savant will do anything to control the nine realms. A mysterious and deadly Mar race will steal children into the sea. And a handsome guide with far too many secrets will make me fall in love. My name is Ash. A lowly scribe meant to observe and record. And yet I think I’m destined to save us all.

      Crown of Bones
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    • Kiss Me Like a Stranger

      My Search for Love and Art

      • 272pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      Gene Wilder is one of the great comic actors who defined the 1970s and 1980s 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, Wilders 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 in psychoanalysis to why he got into acting 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 actors search for truth and a realization of why the choices he madesome of them so serendipitous they were practically accidentalchanged the course of his life.

      Kiss Me Like a Stranger