As a child I grew up with Gene Wilder and the whole gang in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory once a year when it aired. This was back in the days before VCRs, etc. No matter when it came on, our whole family made plans to be in front of the TV to watch the movie.
Normally I would not post such news stories until the person has passed, and usually I do not even post stories about popular people that have passed, but I thought that in this case it would be different.
Many of us, I am sure, have equally good memories of the movie, and might want to say a prayer, or send a good thought to Denise Nickerson who played Violet Beauregarde as she was just taken off life-support.
She had a stroke last year and had not really improved, and she was taken to the hospital with seizures and in pulmonary and respiratory distress and pneumonia.
Do you have a favorite memory from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?