2018 Deaths

[fsn]

Philip Roth.

I'm flat on my back at the moment with some sort of virus, and am listening to the Radio 4 Today programme. Apparently he was the best thing since sliced bread.

Never read him.

Anybody else read him?

[FierceKitty]

Self-indulgent east coast American. Think Woody Allen without the wit he once had.

[Ben Waterhouse]

Used naughty words, so the emotionally arrested adolescents that run our culture love(d) him...

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello

Clint Walker of Dirty Dozen and Cheyenne fame has died at 90.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/obituaries/clint-walker-towering-western-star-is-dead-at-90.html

GrumpyOldMan

[fsn]

Awww!

Clint Walker had a cool name, was very tall and very buff.

Sort of chap one aspired to when I were a lad.

[Techno]

I second Nobby's ! "Awww". 

Decent innings, tho'.

Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

A damned good innings and a great name as others have said. Also looked pretty big in the Dirty Dozen.

[Ithoriel]

Norman Eugene Walker - no wonder he went by "Clint"

Brings back memories of watching various Westerns on the telly with my father.

[ronan]

Philip Roth.
(...)
Anybody else read him?

Yes I did.
( Some translated in french, and some in english)
I really liked his books.

[fsn]

Norman Eugene Walker - no wonder he went by "Clint"

Well you would, wouldn't you?

[Elliesdad]

In the late 1980s we had an Alsatian dog called Bodie. Yes, of course he was named after the Clint Walker character.

As a young child I'm told I used to sit on the back of our settee (imagining it was a horse) when Cheyenne was on TV. Ahhh - the old days. But now I've just turned 60 so I guess it's not just those days that are old.

Geoff

[Elliesdad]

Leslie Grantham. Perhaps better known as "Dirty Den" from EastEnders.

I was going to mention a 4 letter word - t*xi - but thought that was perhaps uncalled for.


Geoff

[Techno]

Naughty....

Do we know what he died of ?
'They' seem to be being very quiet about that.

Cheers - Phil

[Dr Dave]

Leslie Grantham...
I was going to mention ... t*xi

Quite. My thought exactly.

[toxicpixie]

Did anyone mention PETER Stringfellow? Died a couple of weeks back, family keeping the details quiet and minimal fuss. Given how much larger than life and huge self publicist he was that's very restrained!