If you haven't seen it, we highly recommend Role Model, a one-hour special produced for Turner Classic Movies. It's Alec Baldwin interviewing Gene Wilder and it's one of the best conversations I've ever seen about an actor's career. Mr. Wilder is disarmingly candid and frank…and I don't know how many questions Mr. Baldwin asked which were edited from the show, but all that were included elicit pretty interesting responses. If you've ever liked Gene Wilder in anything — and I don't know how you couldn't — you'll enjoy this very much.
It runs on TCM this coming Saturday, July 18. It's on at 4 PM on my satellite dish but your cable company or source may have other ideas.
I just checked to see if the Turner folks were running this in conjunction with some Gene Wilder films, which is how they usually program such things, but no. Earlier, they're running a bevy of Dick Tracy movies from the forties, culminating in the 1990 flick starring Warren Beatty. Afterwards, they're going Jonesing as they run Tom Jones, Carmen Jones, The Devil and Miss Jones (the 1941 film with Jean Arthur, not the similarly-named porn epic) and Cinderella Jones. Oh, well.