RIP, Ingmar Bergman and Tom Snyder

[D-3 Fan]

Famous director Ingmar Bergman dies at 89
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070730/ap_on_en_mo/obit_bergman;_ylt=AmA_squJ.rqSxK9psCMLkjes0NUE

And just coming across that Snyder, famous of the Tomorrow Show passes away at age 71
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070730/ap_en_tv/obit_snyder;_ylt=AhPKYQZJ7Ky88_9LSIWiH6Gs0NUE

The Colortini has lost its best friend.   :'(

 

[Chef]

Enjoyed Snyder very much.

RIP.

 

[ondeadline]

Loved Snyder's talk show. Dan Aykroyd did an excellent impression of him.

 

[Pencil Dick]

Dan Aykroyd's impression was a good one, too. ::)

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

And the real thing:

 

[friend of the friendless]

Sirs, Madames,

I was a huge TS fan. Some legendary interviews back with Tomorrow. Johnny Rotten. Manson. Alfred Hitchcock near the end. I remember him having a sex expert on who was advocating masturbation and TS said: "I have to hand it to you ..." and then collapsed in laughter for two minutes. He was a good friend of--of all people--David Brenner. It was weird ... i could give a **** about David Brenner until TS said he was a friend and the show they did together was great. (Brenner, friend of all it seems, said he had no hard feelings about anybody in Hollywood ... except Jack Lord and then went vitriolic for three minutes about what an ass he was.) Even the show on CBS was way better than the average fare.

RIP, etc

 

[Duane Postum]

I have never heard a good word said about Mr. Jack Lord.

RIP both.

 

[crusoes]

Tom Snyder's dead?

Okay. Fair enough. I'll buy that.

A very fond farewell, sir.

 

[lantaur]

A great interviewer. I was too young for The Tomorrow Show, but liked his version of The Late, Late Show. Had to love that laugh and how he could just lose it. I also remember the time he showed up late and they just showed his empty chair for a while. How many shows would do that?

RIP.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Loved Snyder's talk show. Dan Aykroyd did an excellent impression of him.

How many different colors did they say was in Snyder's hair?

 

[Bubbler]

Lumping Bergman and Snyder in the same RIP is just weird on its face. Both men would probably have liked that.

RIP to both.

 

[finishthehat]

It was through a Tom Snyder interview that the world learned of Elvis Costello's love of Rogers & Hart and other American Songbook classic writers.

There was a DVD set out a while back that featured Syder's interviews with rock stars -- Costello, Iggy Pop, Rotten, etc.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Always liked Snyder...

RIP for both...

 

[Tommy_Dreamer]

I recently watched Snyder interview Howard Stern and wow, I've never seen Snyder get that flustered before.

I loved watching Snyder's interviews though, he was thoughtful and incisive with his guests and it made for a good talk show.

 

[JayFarrar]

One of my favorite momentos is an autographed picture of Tom Snyder.
I used to send his show e-mails and he would read them on the air, that was back in like '96 when e-mail was a new fangled gadget and I strongly suspect I was one of only a few that sent in e-mail.
One day I got an e-mail asking for my physical address and a few days later I got the picture.

 

[part-timer]

One of my favorite momentos is an autographed picture of Tom Snyder.
I used to send his show e-mails and he would read them on the air, that was back in like '96 when e-mail was a new fangled gadget and I strongly suspect I was one of only a few that sent in e-mail.
One day I got an e-mail asking for my physical address and a few days later I got the picture.

I, too, have an autographed picture from Snyder. When I worked in the collectibles biz, I would send him some stuff because he a baseball fan, etc. and he sent me back the photo and a coffee mug. I think he used to do Tomorrow from the same studios in Philadelphia Mike Douglass did his show.

Also sorry to see Bergman lost his chess match.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

David Brenner was a TV producer in Philly before he got into stand-up. He and Snyder worked at KYW-TV together on documentaries and became good friends.

"Tomorrow" came from 30 Rock in NY and the NBC studios in Burbank. It was never done from Philly on a regular basis.

"Tomorrow" was exceptional until NBC started tweaking it. Most nights it was Snyder in his cloud of cigarette smoke, doing an hour of gimmick-free conversation with interesting people. I discovered Harlan Ellison through his "Tomorrow" appearances.

When he did the CBS show, I used to love the slice of life observations he did at the beginning of the show, often regarding "Mother Snyder" or "the companion."

Thanks, Tom.

 

[Cape_Fear]

Tom first told my favorite baseball joke on the Late, Late Show after Letterman.

A Scotsman goes to his first baseball game and his buddy is explaining the rules to him. After seeing the guys hit the ball and run, he's puzzled why the batter is just walking to first base.

"That's a walk," the buddy explained. "He has four balls."

The Scotsman leaps from his seat and yells: "Walk with pride, man!"

RIP

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Interesting take from Newsday's Verne Gay:

http://weblogs.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/blog/2007/07/verne_gay_on_tom_snyder.html

 

[bigbadeagle]

One of my favorite momentos is an autographed picture of Tom Snyder.
I used to send his show e-mails and he would read them on the air, that was back in like '96 when e-mail was a new fangled gadget and I strongly suspect I was one of only a few that sent in e-mail.
One day I got an e-mail asking for my physical address and a few days later I got the picture.

I, too, have an autographed picture from Snyder. When I worked in the collectibles biz, I would send him some stuff because he a baseball fan, etc. and he sent me back the photo and a coffee mug. I think he used to do Tomorrow from the same studios in Philadelphia Mike Douglass did his show.

Also sorry to see Bergman lost his chess match.

Very nice touch in your homage to Seventh Seal.
Of course, nothing tops Martin Short as Jerry Lewis in "Scenes From an Idiot's Marriage," a great SCTV send up of Bergman AND Jerry Lewis at the same time.
And Snyder was one of the great interviewers. I always seemed to get something out of his show. Can't say that for most TV fare now.