Actor Gene Wilder compared him to Charlie Chaplin in saying " no matter how farcical performance was ... there was always an element of reality to what he did.

The film critic Pauline Kael wrote of her performance as writer Joan Wilder, " Turner knows how to use her dimples amusingly and how to dance like a woman who didn ’ t know she could ; her star performance is exhilarating.

Wilder once said the reason she wrote her books in the first place was to preserve the stories of her childhood for today's children, to help them to understand how much America had changed during her lifetime.

Among the latter is the tale of how her grandmother Sally Wilder Frost was named by Col. John Hunt Morgan.

" In the documentary film 101, Wilder demonstrates how different synthesiser parts of a song are split and arranged across a sampling keyboard for playing them live during the concert, just one small example of Wilder's ongoing contributions to Depeche Mode during his time as a member of the group.

In By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Mrs Boast shows the Ingalls family how to make a " whatnot ".

He returns to the others and joins them as they pursue Spender, and Wilder shoots Spender in the chest during the fight before he has the opportunity to be killed by anyone else.

In the next moment, Hathaway has a heart attack and dies, begging Wilder not to call his family to his side because they " would not understand ".

As Wilder prepares to depart, one of the crew returns to the house with a pistol, thinking to put an end to the androids, whose existence seems pointless now that Hathaway is gone, but he returns shortly, having been unable to bring himself to kill the robotic family even knowing that they are not truly human.

Wilder theories speculated that they could have been launched from German prisoner of war camps in the U. S., or even from Japanese-American internment centers.

Together they hosted a salon that attracted expatriate American writers, such as Ernest Hemingway, Paul Bowles, Thornton Wilder, and Sherwood Anderson, and avant-garde painters, including Picasso, Matisse, and Braque.

New Ipswich, situated on the Massachusetts border, includes the villages of Bank, Davis, Gibson Four Corners, Highbridge, New Ipswich Center, Smithville, and Wilder, though these village designations no longer hold the importance they did in the past.

By the late 1920s, they had scaled back the farming operation considerably and Wilder had resigned from her positions with the Missouri Ruralist and the Farm Loan Association.

Simply stated: if Wilder had not written the books, they would not exist — Lane had no interest in writing what she called " juveniles "— but had Lane not edited the books, they might well have never been accepted for publication let alone become famous.

Chris Wilder found himself again in a relegation battle in 2007 – 08 after the team were docked 10 points when they were placed into administration by a local consortium trying to buy the club.

Instead, Cole tries to provoke the sisters to kill him by sending an assassin after them, knowing that they will be able to recover thanks to their recent contact with Paige's father, whitelighter Sam Wilder ( Scott Jaeck ).

" When asked if his characters were historical or imagined, Wilder replied, " The Perichole and the Viceroy are real people, under the names they had in history street singer named Micaela Villegas and her lover Manuel de Amat y Juniet, who was Viceroy of Peru at the time.

Wilder claims to be grateful to Mostel for teaching him such a valuable lesson, and for picking Wilder up every day so that they could ride to work together.

This planned yet unproduced sequel would have seen Jack Colton and his partner Joan Wilder take their two teenage children to Thailand where they would find themselves blackmailed into stealing a priceless statue.

In 1958 he married Jo Wilder ; they divorced in 1982.

Damon works for his sister at Wilder Advertising, a top San Francisco ad agency, from where they both plot to take over Falcon Crest and ruin Angela for her alleged crimes against their family.

Of it, Wilder observed, " The best thing they did was leave the script alone ," and of Patti LuPone he exclaimed, " She's a star from the moment she walks on stage.

The " Dramat " produced the American premieres of Albert Camus's Caligula and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, as well as original works by Cole Porter, Stephen Vincent Benet, and Thornton Wilder written when they were students.

This meant that if the Republicans could have established true party discipline, they could have chosen either to retain Wilder or replace him ; however, since several incumbent Republicans who were either reelected or whose terms did not expire in this election cycle were known to be allies and close friends of Wilder, the outcome that was considered to be most likely by most close observers was that these Republicans would join with the Democratic minority to continue Wilder's working majority and that he would be reelected Lieutenant Governor.

Revised versions of these chapters that were purported to have existed, along with " A Severe Insult to the Brain ", " Yachts and Things ", " And Audrey Wilder Sang " and " Father Flannagan's ...", have not been located ( if they indeed do exist ) as of 2008.

They originally pitched it as a straightforward buddy comedy done in what they described as " a sophisticated Billy Wilder kind of way.

" When ABC executives asked Miller and Boyett to explain what they meant by the comparison to Wilder, the producers mentioned Some Like It Hot and ABC bought the show on condition that it would include men in women's clothing, just like that movie.

All of the Wilder children spent part of their childhood in China because of their father's work.

Carrie Ingalls ( sister of Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder ) spent a significant part of her adult life there, living with her husband David N. Swanzey and his children.

Mumford spent a year as ALA President and during this time helped to streamline management of the association and oversaw the establishment of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for substantial and lasting contributions to literature for children.

When he returned, Lance Wilder and his team spent time creating new scenes and backgrounds, incorporating small details such as signs and hundreds of extras that would correctly illustrate the city.

In June 1995, having spent fourteen years as an integral part of one of the most popular and influential bands the UK has ever produced, Alan Wilder made the decision to leave Depeche Mode.

When Gert was killed at the hands of Geoffrey Wilder, Molly spent time sitting in front of a photo of Gert in the new Hostel's photo wall.

Two surgeries by Doctor Wilder Penfield of the Montreal Neurological Institute were insufficient to save him, and his death on 11 February was eulogised on the radio by Mackenzie King: " In the passing of His Excellency, the people of Canada have lost one of the greatest and most revered of their Governors General, and a friend who, from the day of his arrival in this country, dedicated his life to their service.

Radner went on to make a second film, The Woman in Red, in 1984 with Wilder and their relationship grew.

Little Laura Ingalls Wilder with her family, aunt Polly Melona Ingalls and uncle Henry Odin Quiner with their children moved here in 1868.

In 1894, Laura Ingalls Wilder, along with her husband, Almanzo Wilder, and their daughter Rose Wilder Lane moved from South Dakota to Mansfield.

Today, their unique 10-room farmhouse is a National Historic Landmark, and the home of the Laura Ingalls Wilder-Rose Wilder Lane Home and Museum, which attracts thousands of visitors to Mansfield each year.

It was also recorded by Webb Wilder and the Beatnecks for their album Doo Dad, and featured in the " trip " sequence in Webb's movie Horror Hayride.

As even this meager food runs out, Laura's future husband Almanzo Wilder and his friend Cap Garland risk their lives to bring wheat to the starving townspeople – enough to last the rest of the winter.

In 1874, when Wilder was seven years old, the family left their home near Pepin for the second time and settled just outside Walnut Grove, Minnesota.

The tales of their trials at farming can be found in The First Four Years, a manuscript that was discovered after Rose Wilder Lane's death.

For the next eight years, she lived alone, looked after by a circle of neighbors and friends who found it hard to believe their very own " Mrs. Wilder " was a world-famous author.

Rose Wilder Lane was the first child of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder ( and their only child to survive into adulthood ).

The other three time winners, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, have all shared their awards with co-writers.

In 2001, the band released their third album, Start Static, which featured the hit singles " Pretty Girl ", " Bouncing Off The Walls " ( which featured in " Van Wilder ") and " Stuck in America ".

Meanwhile, Almanzo and Laura take in their niece, Jenny Wilder ( Shannen Doherty ), when Almanzo's brother dies and raise her alongside their daughter, Rose.

In the last chapter of These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote a descriptive account of the pantry that Almanzo Wilder built for her in their first home together in DeSmet, South Dakota.