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Tony Snow Dies At Age 53

We are deeply saddened to hear the news that Tony Snow has passed away.  Tony was loved by so many people; he was a family man who had more integrity than anyone I have ever seen in the spotlight.
This is a loss that is suffered by so many people; both who knew him and those [...]

Harvey Korman Dies At Age 81

Harvey Korman, an Emmy-winning comedic actor best known for playing the self-described “luminous second banana” for a decade on television’s “The Carol Burnett Show” and for starring in such Mel Brooks films as “Blazing Saddles,” has died. He was 81.
Korman, who had undergone several major operations, died Thursday at UCLA Medical Center of complications from [...]

Winemaker Robert Mondavi Dies At Age 94

Pioneering California vintner Robert Mondavi has died at the age of 94. I remember being introduced to his wines by an ex-boyfriend whose family did business with the Napa winemaker.
Mondavi was 52 and a winemaking veteran in 1966, when he opened the winery that would help turn the Napa Valley into a world center of [...]

William F. Buckley, Jr. Dies - Age 82

William F. Buckley has passed away at the age of 82; the exact cause is unknown although it is reported that he had emphysema.
Bill Buckley was born Nov. 24, 1925 in New York City. He was the sixth of 10 children of a multimillionaire and he spent his “early childhood in France and England, [...]