Entertainment For Lively Minds
Obituary writers on overtime
Posted by Paul Wad on 14 January 2009 - 7:43pm.
Is it just me, or do famous people seem to be dropping like flies? Every time you turn on the news another one has shuffled off.
In the last month we have lost Jack Douglas, Eartha Kitt, Davy Graham, Delaney Bramlett, Norah Batty, David Vine, Harold Pinter, Dave Dee, Ron Asheton and now Patrick MacGoohan, not to mention numerous songwriters and directors. Heck we've even lost Deep Throat (Mark Felt, not, er, Linda Lovelace, who's already dead).
Is Andy Gill going to start getting a supplement for his obituary section?
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David Vine?!
This, the man who was la Voix de Val d'Isere? The Prince of the Pistes? The Diaghelev to Eddie the Eagle's Nijinski?
To me this news is just as culturally significant as the death of Harold Pinter. Why on earth wasn't this covered properly? He was more than a national institution; he was a nashal inchachushn.
Although he did tell a 9 year old me
to F**k off when I asked (politely) for his autograph at Bracknell during the infamous Kevin Keegan Superstars. I don't hold a grudge though and it was a sad day on Monday when I read it. He did, at least, teach me that its rude to ask for autographs. And nerdy.
Sounds like a right arse to me...
there's no excuse for that, especially speaking to a young kid in that way.
I thought that at the time
but hey ho, we all have bad days at work and maybe I caught one of his. It helped me love David Coleman even more.
Hmmm
Maybe there's just more famous people than there used to be. The celebrity population has grown as media has grown over the last 50 years and now it seems more people are dying.
Just a thought.
No
It just appears that TV policemen are getting younger...
I used to scoff at my folks reading the obit pages in the local rag. Now I read the celebrity ones online.
khaaaaaannnnn
add Ricardo Montalban to the list.
I tell you!
If I was famous, and a little bit old, I would be ignoring that tap-tap-tapping at the window.
The "and now let's remember them actors, directors and people behind the camera that nobody's ever heard of" bit at the oscars is going to be even longer than a Best Actress acceptance speech.
but with
less tears. Where is perspective when you need it?
Nearer
than it looks.
could well be
A friend works on the obituaries page of The Times and her Facebook status the other day was "is hoping not as many people die today"
isn't everyone famous, now?
The Times are probably updating all of our obits, as we speak
Dissapointed
I read "Is it possible that people are dying more frequently than they used to?" in the newsletter and expected some comment on people passing on more often than the customary once in a lifetime.
Oh well.