Dom Deluise

If I had any question as to whether folks are following this blog, I got my answer on a relatively quiet and rainy Tuesday afternoon. No less than ten e-mails and text messages poured in with the news that Dom Deluise had passed on. Clearly, this portly gentleman strikes a chord with those interested in the camp, the trivial, the semi-famous. And now the burden is on my shoulders. To deliver a celebrituary worthy of this bright star's cult status.

I just don't know if I am up to it.

Here's the thing. I have stiff competition from all these publications, with all their damn reporters, who knew he had cancer and were rarin' to go with tributes like this.

But I can win on the personal touches. I can win with leftfield links and deep content from the DeLuise archives. I can win with tidy compilations of trivia. And the best part is that all this comes from you. People like Peter Knierim, Dennis Pereira, and Gian Lavecchia. I have an army and they number in the thousands. OK, maybe the tens, but most definitely the tens.

So, perhaps I don't get the scoop. But, I can be ruthless, resorting to the Muppet Show if I have to.

Here's something even more fun than the Muppet Show. It's fair to say that domdeluise.com is perhaps the WORST celebrity Web Site I have ever seen. But, it isn't completely without value. I learned that Dom was quite the prolific writer of Children's Books. And, as much as I would love to give all the business to the DeLuise estate, I just can't get past that Web page, so buy from Amazon.

Here is an excerpt from "Charlie the Caterpillar":

One day, One bright and sunny day,
Charlie the caterpillar was born.
The world looked very, very big to Charlie...
because he was very, very small...
because he was just born.

A little slice of relativity theory from Fatso. Enjoy the irony.