RIP, Ingmar Bergman and Tom Snyder

Good tributes on both NBC Nightly News and MSNBC's Countdown as well.

 

Snyder was a treat to watch as a kid. You never knew who was coming on or what direction the discussion would take. Wow. What a concept.

 

Let's go smoke a cigarette and let out a loud HA HA HA HA HA HA in Tom's memory.

Thanks, Tom.

 

Sirs, Madames,

I guess Michelangelo Antonioni's death along with Bergman's makes it the international cinema's equivalent of the July 4,1826.

I have L'Avventura on DVD -- I've watched it through a couple of times and with the commentary later. I can see what critics loved and audiences hated. Takes the Seinfeld "nothing happens" and self-absorption to a Godot-like extreme with Italian high society.

The Passenger with Nicholson (aka Professione: Reporter) much more fun to watch. I think I'll watch Blow-Up when I get a chance.

Gets an Oscar one year and it's stolen the next.

YHS, etc