C: Is for a comedian who is celebrated

Comedic actor Dom DeLuise, has died. Best known for his scene stealing roles in Mel Brooks and films with his close friend Burt Reynolds, DeLuise, 75, had been battling cancer for more than a year. In the 1974's "Blazing Saddles" in played a flamboyant musical director who led dancers in a number called "The French Mistake" and 1976 film "Silent Movie," he played the assistant to Brooks' director Mel Funn. In 1980 he took on the dark comedy "Fatso," in which he played an overweight man trying to wean himself from comfort food. The film was directed by Brooks' wife, Anne Bancroft. DeLuise, who struggled with his own weight, was also an author of cookbooks. He felt powerless over food. "You know, anybody who's an alcoholic or cocaine or something, that's what food was to me." Besides authoring cookbooks, DeLuise penned seven children's books. His voice was featured in the children's films as "An American Tail" and its sequels, "All Dogs Go to Heaven" with Burt Reynolds and its sequel, and "Oliver & Company." He started on Broadway in the musical The Student Gypsy and Here's Love and took on Neil Simon in Last of the Red Hot Lovers. On film he was in "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." USA Top Model 2008 Mallory Snyder states "He was someone who made the world laugh, He will be missed." Frequent collaborator Burt Reynolds stated "I was thinking the other day about this. As you get older you think about this more and more, I was dreading this moment. Dom always made everyone feel better when he was around. I never heard him say an unkind word about anyone. I will miss him very much." Like Mallory and Burt the world world says good-by to a great comedian and that is a F.A.C.T.