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Dom DeLuise,1933-2009

By Eric Robinette | Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 05:59 PM

I cannot claim to have been a great fan of Dom DeLuise, but he was one of those performers who tended to make me smile, even when he was in movies that weren’t as funny as he was. David Poland put it best at The Hot Blog:

“It’s been 35 years since Blazing Saddles debuted. Korman, Kahn, Little, and Pickens are all gone. Now DeLuise. Sad. But after a year in which we lost both Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella, I guess it’s time for me (and others) to grit my teeth and get used to the idea… younger, older… the losses come… but the work does live on… the pleasure of the work keeps coming…

“Dom DeLuise is dead. And I am smiling, thinking of him.”

Me too.

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