When I was younger, I devoured comedies, even Saturday Night Live, which my dad always taped (like, on tapes), labeled and let me watch over breakfast on Sunday morning.
I remember watching a black and white short by Tom Schiller done as a tribute to Fellini’s La Dolce Vida. At the time, I didn’t entirely understand it, but by the end, when Gilda said dreams were like paper and walked away, I always cried.
Gilda was a master at consuming characters. Making me simultaneously laugh and boil over with envy.
But sometimes she wasn’t funny at all, but rather brilliantly complicated and beautiful.
It’s weird, I still cry at the end.
See, I always knew we were long lost sisters! Gilda has been one of my idols for so very long. When I first read her autobiography, I cried. As a gift last year, my husband gave me her album. She was brilliant and beautiful.
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Bunny, Bunny by Alan Zweibel. A love story to Gilda from her best friend. I read this book every year. And cry every time.
http://www.amazon.com/Bunny-Gilda-Radner-Sort-Story/dp/1557832765
I didn’t grow up watching SNL and don’t really know why I am not watching it now, I stay up late enough. Thank you for sharing those clips. I can totally see why you cry at the end of La Dolce Gilda. I love the comparison of dreams and paper. I know how fragile your dreams can be and torn away as easily as paper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQmPiPytK5w
This is, and will forever be my favorite. Please please watch it.
Sigh, as always, perfect. The perfect mix of funny beauty. And it was effortless.
I watch that video when I need a little pick me up.
I have always, and will always, LOVE, Gilda Radner
I love that you cry at the end.
I remember crying at that, too. I remember thinking it was so odd that it was on SNL at the time, but so lovely.
‘Live from New York’ is a great behind the scenes book about SNL from the beginning to the early 00’s. There’s a backstory to La Dolce Gilda, it’s pretty awesome.
always has been one of the funniest women in comeday. I miss her so much. One of my alltime favourite quotes by her . “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.” Sums up life. Thank you for posting those videos…gave me the warm and fuzzies
She’s one of the women I watched, admired and wanted to be like when I grew up and became an actor. I loved everything about her. Her ability to sacrifice silly notions of what’s beautiful and what’s not in order to crack the best joke….genius.
I remember La Dolce Gilda. And it’s still a tear-jerker. What a lovely, beautiful, and funny person she was. She was a true genius….
If you have not read the book Gilda, you should. I <3 Gene Wilder like you <3 Bill Murray because of her.
I am also very moved by La Dolce Gilda. I thought it was brilliant. I remember it aired on an SNL anniversary show, (maybe the 20th?) as a tribute to Gilda. It had not been very long since she had passed, so it was especially sad when the mime releases the balloon and reveals the heart on his chest, and then we watch the balloon drift off. It just so perfectly expressed how we all felt about losing her. So eerie in its foretelling.