Posts Tagged ‘Dom Deluise Dead at 75’

Eric Golub

Dom DeLuise: Larger than Life

by Eric Golub

Farewell, Captain Chaos.

The great ones leave us way too soon. Dom DeLuise has left the road on Earth for the big racetrack in the sky.

As a young boy, Burt Reynolds was my hero. Yet every hero needs a sidekick, and Burt Reynolds became as great as he was with considerable comic relief from the equally great Dom DeLuise.

As a favor to the Republican Party, Dom DeLuise helped attempt to deliver a pregnant elephant in “Smokey and the Bandit II.” Yet his hilarity peaked with “Cannonball Run” and “Cannonball Run II.” (more…)

Big Hollywood

R.I.P. Dom DeLuise

by Big Hollywood


Dom DeLuise was 75.