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unearths some literary gems.
[This is Feldman's "autobiography"--more like a draft of autobiographical materials, really, published long after his death with literally no editing.]***I want to walk the wicket at Lords; I don't want to actually play. I just want to walk out there, putting on my gloves as they do with such class, adjust my cap a little, look around, put the crease down. That's all I want to do. [I'm sold! Now I sort of want to do this, too. (:v>]***I was on a roll and would set myself exercises in writing for people who were no longer alive. [And, as you know, I have definitely done this.]***Lew Grade...didn't recognize me. Long cigars, short memory!***[In case you didn't know that the traveling hump was originally just done as a behind-the-scenes antic.]I wore it on the other side one day to see if anyone would notice and Mel and Gene said that it should be part of the gag, what hump![Similarly, I've just added to that "Walk This Way" Wikipedia section to relate Feldman's own account of how that arose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Frankenstein#%22Walk_this_way%22]***My car is just like me, a little package with a huge engine and I often seem to arrive before it does.***[When Lennon was estranged from Ono, Feldman's wife] would joke that she was ready to go with him and had a bag packed. She said the same thing about one of the Muppets so I wasn't too worried!***I toyed with the idea of calling it Marty Feldman's First Second Movie.***Bonus: Among a list of ideas for projects is a movie called "One of Our Cliches Is Missing."
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