Roger Day wrote:
> Gene Wilder was the best Wonker. Swords at dawn to any who say otherwise.
Agreed. The Tim Burton remake was a terrible disappointment. Interesting
in its own way, up to a point, but in too much of a hurry to import its
own Burton-branded weirdness into the story, and missing the
fundamentally more subversive weirdness that was already there (and that
the Wilder version was much more keyed into).
For similar reasons, Mister Sprinkles -
http://acceptable.tv/videos/246-Mr-Sprinkles - is ultimately less
subversive than Dr Seuss. And as for "Sad Kermit"...
http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=392
Dominic
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