Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Bruno Kirby, R.I.P.

It is with great sadness that we here at Mime is Money pay our last respects to actor Bruno Kirby, who died Monday from complications related to leukemia.
 
He had a long career: he was in such early-70s TV shows as Room 222 and the pilot of M.A.S.H.
 
Most notably for us, he played Rat Pack fan and limo driver, Tommy Pischedda, in This is Spinal Tap. The outtakes on the Spinal Tap DVD of Kirby crooning in his tighty whities is as good as anything in the released movie.
 
Bruno Kirby was certainly no fad.
 

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