RIP Dom DeLuise

[Moderator1]

Anyone see anything on this?
Two Facebook "friends" have put something in their status about it but I haven't seen it elsewhere yet.

 

[EStreetJoe]

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/entertainment&id=6796745

can't believe nobody's posted this yet

 

[Pancamo]

Re: RIP Dom DeLuise?

Wiki has him dead. TMZ says he died last night at a hospital due to kidney disease.

 

[forever_town]

Re: RIP Dom DeLuise?

Frankly, with his size and eating habits, I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did.

Having said that, he was definitely part of my memories growing up. The world is a little emptier place without him in it.

RIP.

 

[Football_Bat]

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Seems confirmed.

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/ny-domdeluisedead0506,0,4313153.story

He ate himself to death while locked in his car.

(Edited for more relevant comedic effect)

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

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RIP Captain Chaos.

 

[Killick]

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Godspeed, (da-da-DAAAAAAA!) Captain Chaos.
Have no fear, him is here.

 

[heyabbott]

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RIP

 

[EStreetJoe]

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RIP Caesar -

 

[spnited]

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Dom DeLuise's wife, Carol, grew up two houses down from me in North Jersey. I did not know her well but his mother-in-law and my mother were good friends and as a teenager I used to mow his mother-in-law's lawn.
Every now and then on a summer Sunday in the late 60s, Dom and Carol and kids would come for an afternoon barbeque and we were sometimes invited. He would pretty much keep us laughing the entire afternoon.
A brilliantly funny and warm and genuine man.

RIP, Dom.

 

[Birdscribe]

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RIP Caesar -

Beat me to it, EStreetJoe. For that, you get a "WASH THIS!" followed by a "What's next, Faggot?"

KNX Newsradio here in LA had his son Peter on this morning. Apparently, Dom knew he was going and summoned his entire family. Peter had to come down from Vancouver, where he lives now. Somehow, Dom hung on until everyone was there, with Peter the last to arrive. Then, he died.

RIP to one of the true comedic legends, a man who didn't need a script -- as Mel Brooks discovered. Just put him in character, turn him loose and watch hilarity ensue.

 

[Bubbler]

Even in some of the "****" he did -- Cannonball Run jumps immediately to mind -- he was funniest in them.

RIP.

 

[dooley_womack1]

RIP

Wow, there was enough interest in that to put it on DVD? It was an NBC response to All in the Family that lasted just a season, I think. Anyhoo, RIP to a man who usually transcended the material he had to deal with.

 

[EStreetJoe]

RIP Caesar -

Beat me to it, EStreetJoe. For that, you get a "WASH THIS!" followed by a "What's next, Faggot?"

KNX Newsradio here in LA had his son Peter on this morning. Apparently, Dom knew he was going and summoned his entire family. Peter had to come down from Vancouver, where he lives now. Somehow, Dom hung on until everyone was there, with Peter the last to arrive. Then, he died.

RIP to one of the true comedic legends, a man who didn't need a script -- as Mel Brooks discovered. Just put him in character, turn him loose and watch hilarity ensue.

Exactly...

 

[Bob Cook]

Any statement yet from Burt Reynolds? Those two had to be one of the more unlikely comic pairings of all time.

 

[DanOregon]

Funny dude. Thought he was at his best with Mel Brooks.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

RIP. Dom.
In his honor, we all will now do The French Mistake.



Voila!

 

[alleyallen]

What a sad loss. He was one of the funniest men on screen for a long time. I always thought he was funniest as Ceasar.

 

[Matt1735]

Dom, Jerry Reed and Suzanne Pleshette... in the movie Hot Stuff... one of my favorites for it's hilarity through bad humor... Dom getting hi on pot was a highlight scene from that flick, eating everything in sight afterward.

RIP to a very funny man

 

[21]

RIP to the genius who taught us the joy of shoving a couple Reese's inside a donut and microwaving it. (See FATSO for further instructions.)