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[Flynbyu]

Must have been hanging out while the buggy tumbled.

~Brian

[P.I.M.P.]

He was doin a wheelie and when he came down the wheels were turned and flipped him. His steering wheel broke and went into the dash and that's how he broke his arms. When they pulled him out his one arm just hung by skin. He snapped it in the middle of his wrist and elbow.

[P.I.M.P.]

Just read this on the message boards from that news story.

To my Dear Friend Chris,

I helped pull you out of your full size sand car after you rolled it 8 times (We watched your video). I got there after you stopped rolling and landed on your roof. You looked dead and your hand wasn't where it was supposed to be. Someone gave us their belt to stop you from bleeding out. We put it on your wrist and the bleeding stopped thank GERD!! Good thing you drink casually and you had no alcohal in your system otherwise your blood wouldn't have clotted so quickley. It took us one hour to pull you out of your car we had to take it apart. You where contious the entire time and just wanted out. It took ten of us to push together. You looked some what like a pretsel unfolding. Everyone worked together to put you on a stretcher. We had to use tie down straps for 4 wheelers, and some card board, thank GERD someone found a neck brace, the medics were running short on supplies. (I think I will donate some money when I can). The medics worked fast with alot of care. Life flight had landed by now (We were all impresed at how fast it got there). We put you in the BLM sand car, and went down the hill. Me and 10 people, some we didn't know helped put you in life flight, what an awesome team of medics and fellow duners. Your wife and daughter just arrived. Thank GERD they didn't see you on the mountain. In histeriks she asked me if you where paralized, I did my best to calm her down and told her no and that you were ok, and could feel all your limbs. She gave you a kiss and told you she loved you (you joked they should have brought a bigger helicopter). Life flight took off, I looked up the hill and all our fellow duners had flipped your car over, Shannon (Sand Craft) hooked onto your car and dragged it down the hill, George had the flat bed waiting and 20 of us picked it up and put it on the trailer. Eveybody ran back to pack up camp. It felt like it took forever. We finaly got to the University Hospital where they had some fancy docter putting your hand back on. Thirty or so of your best friends waiting sick to our stomachs wondering, is he going to keep his hand? Finaly 10:00 p.m. The docter came in and said we placed plates to mend the bone, took tendens, veins and ligiments from your leg, connected the main aritery. An hour later I got to see you contious and alert. You said to me I don't want to lose my hand. Then a finger moved I said bud I think your going to keep it!
To be honest I was just happy you were alive!
Thank you to all our friends that helped save yor life, fellow dunners, BLM, Oficer Craig, Medics even the one that got mad when we swore when things were not going good, life flight for arriving so soon, the nurses for taking care of you & the docters that are putting you back together. To the comments that are made, it's cool he has a sense of humor and I'm sure he will just laugh. Liked the religous one though that was cute. Oh be careful though his 12 year old daughter found your comments and is in hysterics. They are moving you to your room now its 3:12 p.m. on Monday they are going to do your hip replacement tomorrow, and re-open your hand to take out any sand or dead tissue.
Thank GERD for buggie insurance, & your medical insurance. You're going to be down for a while. I will have your car put back together. It will be ready when you are. We will ride again!!!

Your best friend Turbo, And all your friends
(Brian Beck).

Here's the vid of that crash 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV9zSb0OUVI

[Krandall]

Sounds like he has a good group of friends. And had an amazing team of doctors working on him.

that crash is pretty insane.

[Flynbyu]

That shit was wicked!

Awesome group of guys, that's for sure.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

LOS ANGELES - Dom DeLuise, the portly actor-comedian whose affable nature made him a popular character actor for decades with movie and TV audiences as well as directors and fellow actors, has died. He was 75.



DeLuise died Monday night, Michael DeLuise told radio station KNX on Tuesday. The comedian died in his sleep after a long illness. Calls to Dom Deluise's agent and his son were not immediately returned Tuesday.

The actor, who loved to cook and eat almost as much as he enjoyed acting, also carved out a formidable second career later in life as a chef of fine cuisine. He authored two cookbooks and would appear often on morning TV shows to whip up his favorite recipes.

As an actor, he was incredibly prolific, appearing in scores of movies and TV shows, in Broadway plays and voicing characters for numerous cartoon shows.

Writer-director-actor Mel Brooks particularly admired DeLuise's talent for offbeat comedy and cast him in several of his films, including "The Twelve Chairs," "Blazing Saddles," "Silent Movie," "History of the World Part I" and "Robin Hood: Men in Tights." DeLuise was also the voice of Pizza the Hutt in Brooks' "Star Wars" parody, "Spaceballs."

The actor also appeared frequently in films opposite his friend Burt Reynolds. Among them, "The End," "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," "Smokey and the Bandit II," "The Cannonball Run" and "Cannonball Run II."

Reynolds fondly recalled DeLuise in a statement issued by his publicist.

"I was thinking about this the other day," Reynolds said. "As you get older and start to lose people you love, you think about it more and I was dreading this moment. Dom always made you feel better when he was around and there will never be another like him. I never heard him say an unkind word about anyone. I will miss him very much."

Another actor-friend, Dean Martin, admired his comic abilities so much that he cast DeLuise as a regular on his 1960s comedy-variety show. In 1973, he starred in a situation comedy, "Lotsa Luck," but it proved to be short-lived.


~Brian
"To know Dom was to love him and I knew him very well. Not only was he talented and extremely funny, but he was a very special human being," said actress Carol Burnett, who starred with DeLuise on TV show "The Entertainers" in the '60s. DeLuise also appeared on "The Carol Burnett Show" in the '70s.

Other TV credits included appearances on such shows as "The Munsters," "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.," "Burke's Law," "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and "Diagnosis Murder."

On Broadway, DeLuise appeared in Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" and other plays.

Because of his passion for food, the actor battled obesity throughout much of his life, his weight reaching as much as 325 pounds at one point. For years he resisted the efforts of family members and doctors who tried to put him on various diets. He finally agreed in 1993 when he needed hip replacement surgery and his doctor refused to perform it until he lost 100 pounds.

He and his family enrolled at the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center in Durham, N.C., and DeLuise lost enough weight for the surgery, although he gained some of it back afterward.

On the positive side, his love of food resulted in two successful cookbooks, 1988's "Eat This — It Will Make You Feel Better!" and 1997's "Eat This Too! It'll Also Make You Feel Good."

At his Pacific Palisades home, DeLuise often prepared feasts for family and friends. One lunch began with turkey soup and ended with strawberry shortcake. In between were platters of beef filet, chicken breast and sausage, a bowl of spaghetti and meatballs and a saucer of lettuce.

He strongly resembled the famed chef Paul Prudhomme and joked in a 1987 Associated Press interview that he had posed as Prudhomme while visiting his New Orleans restaurant, K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen.

DeLuise was appearing on Broadway in "Here's Love" in the early 1960s when Garry Moore saw him and hired him to play the magician "Dominick the Great" on "The Garry Moore Show." His appearances on the hit comedy-variety program brought offers from Hollywood, and DeLuise first came to the attention of movie goers in "Fail Safe," a drama starring Henry Fonda. He followed with a comedy, "The Glass Bottom Boat," starring Doris Day, and from then on he alternated between films and television.

"I was making $7,000 a week — a lot of money back then — but I didn't even know I was rich," he recalled in 1994. "I was just having such a great time."

Day remembered him Tuesday as "such a sweet man."

"I met Dom when we were filming 'The Glass Bottom Boat,' and I loved him from the moment we met," she said from Carmel, Calif. "Not only did we have the greatest time working together, but I never laughed so hard in my life as when we were together."

He was born Dominick DeLuise in New York City on Aug. 1, 1933, to Italian immigrants. His father, who spoke only Italian, was a garbage collector, and those humble beginnings stayed with him throughout his life.

"My dad knows everything there is to know about garbage," one of the actor's sons, David DeLuise, told the AP in 2008. "He loves to pick up a broken chair and fix it."

DeLuise's introduction to acting came at age 8 when he played the title role of Peter Rabbit in a school play. He went on to graduate from New York City's famed School of Performing Arts in Manhattan.

For five years, he sought work in theater or television with little luck. He finally decided to enroll at Tufts College and study biology, with the aim of becoming a teacher.

Acting called him back, however, and he found work at the Cleveland Playhouse, appearing in stage productions that ranged from comedies like "Kiss Me Kate" to Shakespeare's "Hamlet."

"I worked two years solidly on plays and moving furniture and painting scenery and playing parts," he remarked in a 2006 interview. "It was quite an amazing learning place for me."

While working in summer stock in Provincetown, Mass., he met a beautiful young actress, Carol Arthur, and they were soon married.

The couple's three sons, Peter, Michael and David, all became actors and all appeared with their father in the 1990s TV series "SeaQuestDSV," in which Peter and Michael were regulars. David was one of the co-stars of the hit children's series "Wizards of Waverly Place."

[Peelz]

Very Sad. Dom Deluise was hilarious. Favorite role was Caesar in History of the World.

[Flynbyu]

Very Sad. Dom Deluise was hilarious. Favorite role was Caesar in History of the World.

I thought of you when I read that.

~Brian

[P.I.M.P.]

So now who will kick it from Smokey and the Bandit? They say it comes in threes, and so far it's the death of the Pontiac and now Dom. Was B Arthur in any of the Bandit shows?

[P.I.M.P.]

Woman stabs man accused of beating her
Police say an argument turned physical at an apartment near 100 South and 300 East early Wednesday morning. A woman allegedly stabbed a man who was beating her over the head with a toaster.

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=10

[Flynbyu]

So now who will kick it from Smokey and the Bandit? They say it comes in threes, and so far it's the death of the Pontiac and now Dom. Was B Arthur in any of the Bandit shows?

No she wasn't.

Here's Dom's filmography:

    * Diary of a Bachelor (1964)
    * Fail-Safe (1964)
    * The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
    * The Busy Body (1967)
    * What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)
    * The Twelve Chairs (1970)
    * Norwood (1970)
    * Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)
    * Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972)
    * Blazing Saddles (1974)
    * The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
    * Silent Movie (1976)
    * The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
    * Sextette (1978)
    * The End (1978)
    * The Cheap Detective (1978)
    * The Muppet Movie (1979) (cameo)
    * Hot Stuff (1979) (also director)
    * The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
    * Fatso (1980)
    * Wholly Moses (1980)
    * Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
    * History of the World, Part I (1981)
    * The Cannonball Run (1981)
    * Peter-No-Tail (1981) (voice in English dubbed version)
    * The Secret of NIMH (1982) (voice)
    * The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
    * Cannonball Run II (1984)
    * Johnny Dangerously (1984)
    * Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
    * An American Tail (1986) (voice)
    * A Taxi Driver in New York (1987)
    * Spaceballs (1987) (voice only)
    * Going Bananas (1988)
    * Oliver & Company (1988) (voice)
    * The Princess and the Dwarf (1989)
    * All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) (voice)
    * Loose Cannons (1990)
    * Driving Me Crazy (1991)
    * An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) (voice)
    * Munchie (1992) (voice only)
    * The Magic Voyage (1992) (voice)
    * Almost Pregnant (1992)
    * The Skateboard Kid (1993) (voice only)
    * Happily Ever After (1993) (voice)
    * Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
    * Don't Drink the Water (1994)
    * The Silence of the Hams (1994)
    * A Troll in Central Park (1994) (voice)
    * All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996) (voice)
    * Red Line (1996)
    * Boys Will Be Boys (1997)
    * The Good Bad Guys (1997)
    * Between the Sheets (1998) (Cameo)
    * The Godson (1998)
    * An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island (1998) (voice)
    * Baby Geniuses (1999)
    * An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster (1999) (voice)
    * Lion of Oz (2000) (voice)
    * The Brainiacs.com (2000)
    * It's All About You (2001)
    * Always Greener (2001)
    * My X-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception (2001)
    * Remembering Mario (2003) (voice only)
    * Girl Play (2004)
    * Breaking the Fifth (2004)
    * Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm (2006) (voice)


~Brian

[Colorado700R]

So now who will kick it from Smokey and the Bandit? They say it comes in threes, and so far it's the death of the Pontiac and now Dom. Was B Arthur in any of the Bandit shows?

Jerry Reid died (The Snowman) in sept 2008, so the three is complete.....for now

[Flynbyu]

So now who will kick it from Smokey and the Bandit? They say it comes in threes, and so far it's the death of the Pontiac and now Dom. Was B Arthur in any of the Bandit shows?

Jerry Reid died (The Snowman) in sept 2008, so the three is complete.....for now

Burt is still with us......The mustache is alive and well.



~Brian

[Colorado700R]

Will Burts (and his mustache's) death destroy you deliverance fantasys

[Flynbyu]

Will Burts (and his mustache's) death destroy you deliverance fantasys

No, but when he dies he needs to be burried in a "Mustache rides" shirt.



~Brian