Gene Wilder copies of Mel Brooks films, while "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" was not a commercial success, although it later gained a cult following and an Oscar nomination for Best Score, as well as a Golden Globe award nomination for Wilder. When Woody Allen offered him a role in one segment of "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)", Wilder accepted, hoping this would be the hit to put an end to his series of flops. "Everything ... " was a hit, grossing over $18 million in the United States alone against a $2-million
Everything Your Listeners Ever Wanted to Hear by Rush... But You Were Afraid to Play Everything Your Listeners Ever Wanted to Hear by Rush... But You Were Afraid to Play Everything Your Listeners Ever Wanted to Hear by Rush...But You Were Afraid to Play is a rare, promo-only LP by the Canadian rock band Rush, serviced to American radio stations in early 1977. Compiled by Rush's then-U.S. label Mercury, it has an AOR sampling of tracks from the band's second, third and fourth albums ("Fly by Night", "Caress of Steel" and "2112" respectively), bypassing selections from their 1974 first album, "Rush". "Rush" had received substantial airplay from FM stations, but their subsequent LPs had not,