Burt Reynolds: I’ll miss Dom very much!
Tags: Burt Reynolds, Cannonball Run, Dom DeLuise, florida, jupiter, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
| Tuesday 5 May 2009 2:46 pm
At home in Jupiter, big screen legend Burt Reynolds was dreading the moment he’d hear that his friend and co-star in several films, Dom DeLuise, had died.
That moment became reality late Monday, as porky bon vivant DeLuise passed away at 75. He’d been admitted at a Los Angeles hospital with kidney failure and respiratory problems earlier in the day.
Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise in Cannonball Run. (Courtesy 20th Century Fox)
Often playing the clown to Reynolds’ tongue-in-cheek straight man, DeLuise and the debonnaire Reynolds were together in some of the biggest box office hits of the early 1980s, including The Cannonball Run I and II, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
“I was thinking about this the other day,” Reynolds said through his publicist, Jeffrey Lane. “As you get older and you lose people you love, you think about it more and I was dreading this moment.
“Dom always made you feel better whenever he was around and there’ll never be another like him. I never heard him say an unkind word about anyone.
“I’ll miss him very much.”
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29years ago when my son was 18months old, we flew to Florida to see my husband. When we arrived at the airport,I was told we could sit in First Class because there were vacant seats available. Imagine my surprise when Dom DeLuise stopped by my seat to tell me what a beautiful baby I had! He stood and carried on a conversation with me for about 5minutes. He and his sons were heading to Florida as well. He was a very kind and caring man and I have never forgotten him. I, too, will miss him.