[Magdalen] RIP Gene Wilder.

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 23:27:55 UTC 2016


I'm listening to "Fresh Air" and a 2005 interview Terry Gross did with Wilder. Wonderful...

> On Aug 30, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> In a message dated 8/30/2016 1:35:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> mjl at ix.netcom.com writes:
> 
> Cloris... Young Frankenstein:
> 
> "He vas... my  BOYFRIEND!">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> "What hump?"
> 
> I had an Igor (the humpbacked servant in The Young Frankenstein)
> experience about 20 years ago.
> 
> There was a patient who saw me for a minor skin problem, but had the
> most amazing elephantine nose from uncontrolled rosacea/rhinophyma.
> It was horrendously disfiguring.
> 
> I didn't usually volunteer unsolicited information to patients, but in  this
> case I mentioned to him that there was quite simple and easy  surgery 
> available
> for his swollen nose.
> 
> I was astonished and embarrassed with his response, "What swollen
> nose?"
> 
> Indeed.  "What hump?"
> 
> 
> 
> David S.
> 


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