{"id":49344,"date":"2016-08-31T17:24:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T21:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=49344"},"modified":"2016-08-31T17:24:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T21:24:25","slug":"mel-brooks-discusses-gene-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=49344","title":{"rendered":"Mel Brooks Discusses Gene Wilder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MelBrooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@MelBrooks<\/a> on his late friend and collaborator Gene Wilder, who passed away Sunday at the age of 83. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RIP?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#RIP<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WWCBaFvYIl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/WWCBaFvYIl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; American Masters (@PBSAmerMasters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PBSAmerMasters\/status\/770628304751644672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?q=mel+brooks&#038;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mel Brooks<\/a> was more than just a frequent collaborator with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?q=gene+wilder&#038;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gene Wilder<\/a>, he was his friend. Here, Brooks reflects on his late pal in a clip from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/american-masters-mel-brooks-make-a-noise\/826663140323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>American Masters: Mel Brooks: Make a Nois<\/em>e<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.@MelBrooks on his late friend and collaborator Gene Wilder, who passed away Sunday at the age of 83. #RIPhttps:\/\/t.co\/WWCBaFvYIl &mdash; American Masters (@PBSAmerMasters) August 30, 2016 Mel Brooks was more than just a frequent collaborator with Gene Wilder, he was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9744,"featured_media":49345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5962,5444,1662],"coauthors":[5618],"class_list":["post-49344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-notes","tag-american-masters","tag-gene-wilder","tag-mel-brooks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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