Dom DeLuise: Wonderful actor, comedian, and childhood friend

Dom DeLuise died at 75 of cancer. This is horrible to hear. When I was a little kid, my best friend and I used to play hide n seek in the Broadway, a department store in Santa Monica. We used to run into Dom all the time. It got to the point where he saw us so much that he used to sit with us at McDonald's and tell us stories. One day, my mom and I were at Carl's Jr and she saw Dom, and said, "Look there's Dom DeLuise, the guy in those movies with Burt Reynolds." Dom's face lit up, and he said: "Duane! Come join me!" So my mom and I joined him and ate dinner. My mom was so overwhelmed that we were sitting at the table with someone so famous. He was also extremely charming. I remember him saying, when he first saw us: "Duane, this must be your lovely mother. Please join me." My mom hit me after he left, saying, "why didn't you tell me you knew Dom DeLuise?"

He will truly be missed.

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