Tom Snyder Dies at 71
In further depressing news since yesterday's death of Ingmar Bergman, it's been announced that television personality Tom Snyder died Sunday in his San Francisco home due to complications with leukemia. Though as an adolescent I referred to him as "the guy with the eyebrows" that cued me when it was time to switch to Conan, I had since learned to appreciate the uniquely conversational interview style he used on Tomorrow and The Late Late Show. Smoking cigarettes in extreme close-up will never be done so well again.
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Don Herbert, the former children's TV science host better known as Mr. Wizard, died this morning after a long battle with an evil, more powerful wizard.
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