Showbiz
Related: About this forumI saw a documentary on Gilda Radner the other day
It was very well done. The thing that struck me was she was so incredibly talented and yet seemed to float on the wind to wherever it carried her. I wouldn't say she had any business sense.
Also it showed how she had boyfriends galore as a young woman, one after another. She got married but the husband didn't like her being humorous, so she left. Then hit stardom after performing in Godspell in Canada and being discovered by SNL in its very beginning. There she was surrounded by the dominant male milieu but fit in with them, learning how to get her ideas in. Several of the SNL guys were her boyfriends. Then at long last she fell in love with Gene Wilder and went to great lengths to prove herself to him until he finally married her. She said at one point in the documentary that love was always the most important thing to her.
Anyway I found it interesting that 1) she had such a big number of boyfriends and 2) she wasn't really into having a big career, it just happened
LisaM
(28,651 posts)When she died, in her obituary in the school newsletter, she was referred to as "Mrs. Wilder".
Beringia
(4,597 posts)LisaM
(28,651 posts)They didn't treat her any differently just because she was famous.
whathehell
(29,815 posts)Yeah.. Some men feel thrratened by that.
in2herbs
(3,157 posts)whathehell
(29,815 posts)Ovarian cancer is awful -- It takes out people young,.
Anothern "great" it killed was singer- songwriter Laura Nyro. Like Gilda, she never saw her 50th birthday.
Beringia
(4,597 posts)and the doctors can't tell you have it, until it is late stage. But don't know this for sure, have never looked it up. They thought she had chronic fatigue syndrome or it was a psychological problem.
whathehell
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and I think Gilda's mother did too.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,690 posts)They don't produce really obvious symptoms in their early stages when they're curable.
whathehell
(29,815 posts)to Gene Wilder, or anyone else?
Beringia
(4,597 posts)I have no idea her motivation. She was head over heels in love with Wilder, but he was fairly cool on her in the beginning. Why do we fall in love with the people we fall in love with? Maybe being unobtainable is part of it.