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Tom Snyder

 

 

 

Anchor Tom Snyder, who was a late night staple of television and Dan Aykroyd’s inspiration on “Saturday Night Live,” has died after a struggle with leukemia. He was 71.  Snyder died Sunday in San Francisco from complications and a  long battle with the disease at the age of 71.

Tom began his career as a radio broadcaster in the 1960 in Milwaukee.  He later moved on to television news. He anchored newscasts in Los Angeles and Philadelphia before moving to late night.  His favorite phrase was “Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air.” Snyder smoked throughout the broadcast filling the air with cigarette smoke during his famous interviews.  Snyder penned on his Web site  that he had chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2005.”When I was a kid leukemia was a death sentence,” he wrote then. “Now, my doctors say it’s treatable!”  Producer Horowicz reports “He was a great guy and very talented.”

In 1982 Horowicz was introduced to Tom Snyder and worked with him at WABC  network in New York prior to going on to produce the “Tom Snyder” television show.

 

He will be missed darlings!

 

Until my next celebrity gossip,

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