{"id":9122,"date":"2024-06-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/?p=9122"},"modified":"2024-06-05T21:36:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T04:36:17","slug":"hbd-gene-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/hbd-gene-wilder\/","title":{"rendered":"HBD GENE WILDER!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Subscribers of my monthly MUSEletter will have received other examples but for the sake of a public blog, let me explain. Dating back to the 2021 launch of my monthly (+\/-) newsletter I discovered a fun means of focusing a disjointed effort at putting myself out there. I\u2019d structure my newsletter <\/em>then around the significance of day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example; June 11, 2024 happens to mark the 91st birthday of iconic actor Gene Wilder. For artists and chocolate lovers of my generation he\u2019s the definitive Willy Wonka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But I think it\u2019s his starting role in Mel Brooks\u2019 masterpiece film Young Frankenstein<\/em> that is the high point of his career. Appropriately, I discovered this movie when I was a bit older. I\u2019m not sure if it was before or after Blazing Saddles<\/em> but, at a guess, I\u2019d go with the later as it was in color and my default attitude towards black and while films was, that they were boring. <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Subscribers of my monthly MUSEletter will have received other examples but for the sake of a public blog, let me explain. 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