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Posted 20 April 2005 - 08:34 PM
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Former late-night player Tom Snyder has a new battle on his hands--and this time it's not Conan or Craig.
The folksy former NBC newsman and CBS talk-show emcee has announced he has been diagnosed with chronic, but treatable, lymphocytic leukemia.
Snyder, who once held the The Late Late Show host post, was optimistic about his chances.
"When I was a kid leukemia was a death sentence. Now, my doctors say it's treatable! With pills or chemotherapy or a combination of both," he said Friday on his Website, www.colortini.com. He said that, if caught early, patients can live up to 30 years.
"I ain't looking for thirty years," he said, "but fifteen more would be nice!"
Snyder, who is scheduled to meet again with doctors May 4, said he first became aware that something was wrong when he started gaining weight and having night sweats.
"I don't eat that much but I have gained weight--about 50 pounds since I quit smoking more than five years ago," the Emmy-winning broadcaster said.
Snyder, who will turn 69 next month, got his start in the entertainment world in radio--landing a job as a news correspondent at WRIT AM radio in his native Milwaukee in 1955.
Older viewers remember him for his nearly decade-long run as a host on NBC's pioneering The Tomorrow Show from the mid-1970s into the early 1980s and his subsequent stint on CNBC, where he regularly encouraged viewers to "fire up a colortini [a fictional cocktail], sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air."
For younger viewers, however, Snyder is known as the old guy who preceded Craig Kilborn on CBS' The Late Late Show. Snyder, personally tapped for the The Late Late Show gig by David Letterman, stepped down in 1999, saying he was weary of the talk-show grind. Around the same time, he received a pacemaker to treat heart disease.
The folksy former NBC newsman and CBS talk-show emcee has announced he has been diagnosed with chronic, but treatable, lymphocytic leukemia.
Snyder, who once held the The Late Late Show host post, was optimistic about his chances.
"When I was a kid leukemia was a death sentence. Now, my doctors say it's treatable! With pills or chemotherapy or a combination of both," he said Friday on his Website, www.colortini.com. He said that, if caught early, patients can live up to 30 years.
"I ain't looking for thirty years," he said, "but fifteen more would be nice!"
Snyder, who is scheduled to meet again with doctors May 4, said he first became aware that something was wrong when he started gaining weight and having night sweats.
"I don't eat that much but I have gained weight--about 50 pounds since I quit smoking more than five years ago," the Emmy-winning broadcaster said.
Snyder, who will turn 69 next month, got his start in the entertainment world in radio--landing a job as a news correspondent at WRIT AM radio in his native Milwaukee in 1955.
Older viewers remember him for his nearly decade-long run as a host on NBC's pioneering The Tomorrow Show from the mid-1970s into the early 1980s and his subsequent stint on CNBC, where he regularly encouraged viewers to "fire up a colortini [a fictional cocktail], sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air."
For younger viewers, however, Snyder is known as the old guy who preceded Craig Kilborn on CBS' The Late Late Show. Snyder, personally tapped for the The Late Late Show gig by David Letterman, stepped down in 1999, saying he was weary of the talk-show grind. Around the same time, he received a pacemaker to treat heart disease.
It's a good thing he stopped smoking.
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Posted 20 April 2005 - 09:37 PM