Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Monday, July 30, 2007


Tom Snyder has died. We remember him as the archetypal brash local newsman who graduated to NBC to stick his finger in the eyes of millions. Indeed he seemed to spend his whole career boasting; yet as Disco Tom he told people his hyperkinetic personal life was none of their business, a reasonable thing to say but perhaps not so reasonable when it came to Disco Tom. He spent years insisting he should have done the Nightly News. His brashness proved his undoing, and in recent years he suffered from leukemia. He was hot once, as today's sensations are hot, and he and they will be remembered, if at all, for a pose and an attitude.

Which is why Romy called him "LEGENDARY."

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