 Harvey Korman, the comic actor who won four Emmys for his work on ``The Carol Burnett Show'' and appeared in the movie ``Blazing Saddles,'' took his Final Taxi at age 81.
Korman won the Emmy awards for his television comedy roles on ``The Carol Burnett Show,'' where he performed from 1967 to 1977 in a cast led by Burnett and including comedian Tim Conway.
His film roles included playing Hedley Lamarr in ``Blazing Saddles,'' a 1974 spoof Western directed by Mel Brooks. He also performed in Brooks's film ``High Anxiety'' in 1977. In 1983 he appeared in ``Curse of the Pink Panther.''
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It's been a bad week for musical artists. The Final Taxi has made 5 trips this week with people with musical talent.
1.Paul Davis- American singer and songwriter who recorded such songs as "Cool Nights," "65 Love Affair," "Sweet Life," and "I Go Crazy."
2. Brian Davidson - Drummer and songwriter for the 60's band The Nice- the forerunner of Emerson Lake and Palmer.
3. Danny Federci - Keyboardist for Bruce Springsteen's E Street band.
4. Jim Gilchrist- Lead guitarist who played with The Doors, Van Morrison, Captain Beefheart, and Frank Zappa.
5. Al Wilson - Classic soul singer who recorded such memorable songs as "The Snake," I've Got a Feeling We'll Be Seeing Each Other Again, " and his Billboard hit "Show and Tell."
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Charlton Heston, who won an Oscar for his leading role in Ben-Hur, has taken His Final Taxi at 84. On screen, Heston was best known as the star of religious and historic epics—he played Moses in The Ten Commandments and John the Baptist in The Greatest Story Ever Told also Sci-Fi movies like Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man. But off-screen he was an influential political activist, first as a proponent of civil rights in the 1960s, and more recently as an outspoken advocate of gun rights.
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Ola Brunkert was a former drummer for 1970s Swedish pop group ABBA. The group has not performed together since 1982, but continues to sell 3 million records a year.
Ivan Dixon was an African American actor and television director, best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes.
Gary Gygax was an American writer and game designer, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.
All have taken their Final Taxi in the past weeks.
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 Suzanne Pleshette, the dark-haired, smoky-voiced actress who played
Bob Newhart's sardonic and sexy wife, Emily Hartley, for six years on
the 1970s sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show," has taken her final taxi at 70.A stage-trained New York actress, she made her movie
debut in the 1958 Jerry Lewis comedy "The Geisha Boy." Ms. Pleshette
appeared in such films as Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," "Nevada
Smith," "Youngblood Hawke," "A Rage to Live," and "Fate Is the Hunter."
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