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And it is a place that was founded after Gildas death by Gene Wilder and some of Gildas friends.
You walk through the door and there are murals of her.
At one point it was just your typical documentary, which was just people talking about Gilda.
You mentioned some of the audio was destroyed.
She never met him, but then she wound up giving money to this chimp island.
These are crazy stories that dont make sense in the film.
But it is such a cute story.
Something I found very interesting was how the documentary shows her struggle with fame.
Which is just fascinating to me in general.I was fascinated by that as well.
So Gilda, who loved the world, her world started to close around her.
So that is the whole Gilda thing: Even the darkest, heaviest stuff has a sense of humor.
She finds a way to cope with things.
I loved watching all the comedians andSNLcast members interviewed for the documentary flipping through the pages of Gildas journals.
I did not know how that part would ever work.
So I pulled out the book and Amy was like, Is that Gildas?
and she just grabbed it was was rumbling through it, so I asked her to read some.
But it happened organically, and it really happened organically with each of the performers.
I really had no clue, so that was a big learning experience.
I have her diary from 1978, which was at the height of her fear.
She was really lonely and her eating disorder was really kicking in.
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