Tom Snyder RIP Aged 71

 San Francisco -AP- Tom Snyder, whose smoke-filled interviews were a staple of late night television and an inspiration for Dan Aykroyd on “Saturday Night Live,” has died after a struggle with leukemia. He was 71.

Snyder died Sunday in San

Swedish film direcctor Ingmar Bergman has died at age eighty-nine.  Adam Bernstein, Washington Post:

Ingmar Bergman, , an Academy Award-winning Swedish writer-director whose name came to define an entire genre of stark movies about the human condition, such as

Word from James at OTB, which happened to be my first stop,  this morning:

Christiana Hendrix, wife of Cold Fury blogger Mike, was killed in a motorcycle accident Friday. My condolences.

(Sigh)

I can do little but had my

RALEIGH, North Carolina -AP—

Tammy Faye Messner, who as Tammy Faye Bakker helped her husband, Jim, build a multimillion- dollar evangelism empire and then watched it collapse in disgrace, has died. She was 65.

Elsewhere, stocks in mascara and lipstick

Former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson has died at age 94 due to natural causes:

AUSTIN, Texas -(AP)- Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband,

Via Michelle, we find…

Another hero of the Greatest Generation passes:

Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86. Lindberg

COLUMBUS, Ohio —AP- Bob Evans, whose quest for quality sausage to serve the truckers who filled his 12-stool, 24-hour-a-day steakhouse in southeast Ohio led to the creation of a restaurant chain that bears his name, died Thursday, Bob Evans Farms

U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AFPN) — Legendary fighter pilot, retired Brig. Gen. Robin Olds, died June 14 from congestive heart failure one month short of his 85th birthday.

General Olds, rated a triple ace for having shot down a

VIENNA, Austria -AP- Former U.N. chief Kurt Waldheim, who was barred from the United States for two decades after revelations he belonged to a German army unit that committed World War II atrocities, died Thursday. He was 88.

Although it

Don Herbert, television’s “Mr Wizard” has died at age eighty-nine.  Lynn Elder, AP Television reports:

LOS ANGELES — Don Herbert, who as television’s “Mr. Wizard” introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89.

I noticed Billy talking about how Richard Rorty had died…and I finally got round to refreshing my memory on this guy.

Billy’s quite right; This happened about 5 decades too late… and I regret Billy never got the  review

WASHINGTON —AP- Wyoming Sen. Craig Thomas, a three-term conservative Republican who stayed clear of the Washington limelight and political catfights, died Monday. He was 74.

The senator’s family issued a statement saying he died Monday evening at National Naval Medical

Hugo Chavez’s subjects weep as he slams the door on freedom.  Gateway Pundit has this photo, the story and more.

Here’s someone I lost track of for a bit:

LOS ANGELES-AP- Charles Nelson Reilly, the Tony Award winner who later became known for his ribald appearances on the “Tonight Show” and various game shows, has died. He was 76.

Reilly

LYNCHBURG, Va. â€”  The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority and used it to mold the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University.