Wilder than fiction

It's a pity Gene Wilder has taken his schtick to another place.  The master of neurotic comedy and star of the comedies I loved most in my teens and early 20s would have been the perfect film interpreter of the election we are now witnessing.  He would have been the perfect actor to play Donald Trump.  The totally un-selfaware  Trump would have been child's play for Wilder, whose various characters had some or all of The Donald's traits.  He would have had difficulty with Trump's woman hating and intolerance, but his character in The Producers was even able to make Hitler a "sympathetic" figure.  "Springtime for Trump"  has a certain ring to it.