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Actress and comedienne Wendie Jo Sperber passed away last week. I usually don't turn Savant into an obituary column but I knew her from 1941 and liked her a lot. She and John Candy were the friendliest actors on the set and of all the gang from "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" she was the most talented. Wendie got the thankless 'Nancy Walker' role in 1941 and ran with it -- literally -- and regardless of the movie as a whole, every scene she was in worked like a charm. I never saw Bosom Buddies on television but I'm sure she was good in it ... and I wish her family the best.
A few months ago Jon Lidolt, a Toronto based correspondent told me that he had worked on David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future and I encouraged him to write something about the experience. He sent along an amusing article with a couple of snapshots from the late 1970s and I'm happy to include them in Savant's first guest article, Working with Cronenberg on Crimes of the Future.
This is sort of a film noir weekend, with light comedies and a chance of French tragedy predicted for early next week. Good luck on Christmas shopping ... at least in L.A. traffic. Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at December 03, 2005 08:18 AM