actor Gene Wilder announces that he has cancer

NYP2000020401 - 04 FEBRUARY 2000 - NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA: Actor Gene Wilder, 64, shown here in this August 1999 file photo, who lost his wife Gilda Radner to cancer in 1990, has confirmed, February 4, that he is being treated for lymphoma cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York. jr/ep/Ezio Petersen UPI