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This Weekend In Death

mark · 07/30/07 11:19AM


With legendary director Ingmar Bergman, talk show host Tom Snyder, and La Cage aux Folles actor Michel Serrault all passing this weekend, hopefully the Show Business Reaper's "Rule of Three" quota has been met, freeing us from worrying about who his next victim might be for at least the next few days. A round-up of obituaries for the recently deceased trio:

Ingmar Bergman Loses Chess Match With Death

abalk · 07/30/07 07:59AM

Ingmar Bergman, undisputedly one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, has passed away at the age of 89. The atheist child of the chaplain to the king of Sweden, by 2004 he admitted that most of his films depressed him terribly. He was married five times, divorced four, and fathered at least nine children.