Appreciations: Bill Walsh; Tom Snyder; and Ingmar Berman

The sports and entertainment worlds are mourning the passings of three very colorful personalities.

Legendary NFL coach Bill Walsh died this morning, at 75, after a long battle with leukemia. He is noted for the West Coast Offense, which turned around a moribund San Francisco 49ers team into a five-time Super Bowl champion team. He also coached for the Cincinnati Bengals and Oakland Raiders, and was head coach for Stanford.


OSUISCOOL/YouTube

Talk show host Tom Snyder had dry wit. His shows, Tomorrow, which aired for years on NBC; and The Late, Late Show on CBS (the latter aired after David Letterman's Late Show, with Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants producing).


Synthese78/YouTube/ NBC


Colortinis/YouTube/Worldwide Pants/CBS

Snyder died last night at 71. He had leukemia.

Many movie buffs would place Ingmar Bergman's films among the best that the industry had to offer. The Virgin Spring (1961); Through a Glass Darkly (1962); Fanny and Alexander (1982)- three films that won Academy Awards(R) for Best Foreign Films. Over a 61-year period, Bergman wrote; produced; and/or directed over 40 films, and produced and directed numerous of plays for the stage.


mgarlrinho/YouTube/Sandrew(Sweden)/
A clip from Fanny and Alexander, which won 4 Academy awards in 1984.

Bergman died peacefully this morning at 89 in Faro, Gotland, Sweden.

There is too much to describe about these three legends passed, and time won't permit me write more on them (besides, there's very little anyone doesn't know about them). But, we will all remember them; and each will be sorely missed.

Copyright 2007, by Darren W. Alexander
All Rights Reserved.