Subject: Gene Wilder

• Candied Camera

  Willy Wonka's dark chocolate still tasty at 25

  August 29, 1996

• Kid Pics for the week

  August 29, 1996

• Recordings

  December 12, 1996

• Why the Huffington Post Needs to Get Over Chip Saltsman and "Barack the Magic Negro"

  Is Barack really "the magic negro"? Considering the state of the economy, let's hope so. The liberal political correctness posse over at the Huffington Post is doing backflips of fake outrage over RNC Chairman hopeful Chip Saltsman's sending out a humor CD to Republican committee members -- one that included the Paul Shanklin parody Barack the Magic Negro, set to the tune of Puff the Magic Dragon. Actually, there's probably some real outrage mixed in with the fake stuff. The most I can go with

  December 29, 2008

• Springtime for Mel

  Flawed, but better than the original

  December 29, 2005

• Blessed Are the Buttmunches

  November 10, 2005

• The View From Vu

  Great American nouvelle

  September 8, 2005

• Bad News

  One more awful remake strikes out

  July 21, 2005

• Chocolate Kisses

  Wonka just got weirder

  July 14, 2005

• Excess Hollywood

  In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise

  June 2, 2005

• Pie-Faced

  Pizza guy gets lucky

  May 26, 2005

• Hitler Hilarity

  Believe the hype. The Producers -- even in its touring incarnation -- is spectacular theater.

  January 23, 2003

• An Eventful Life

  Career brought man in touch with the great and near-great

  March 1, 2001

• Richard Pryor

  ... And It's Deep, Too! The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968-1992) (Warner Archives)

  December 7, 2000