Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on November 27, 2019, 04:14:36 PM
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Bit of a death day. James's TV columns were quite brilliant.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-50578512?__twitter_impression=true
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Sky apparently announced the death of Clive Anderson!
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Sky apparently announced the death of Clive Anderson!
Clive James would've just loved that!
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Clive James would've just loved that!
Ah they got Clive James right but said the Bee Gees stormed off his show - which was Anderson.
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James was an interesting broadcaster.
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Hadn't seen this review before. There is an irony that Dan Brown caused so much good writing about himself.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/dan-brown-inferno-clive-james-da-vinci-code
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Witty and clever, one of the old school.
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A sad loss, though not unexpected: he's had terminal leukaemia for some time, and wrote about it in a column he had in the Guardian. I loved his TV criticism, and he was also a very gifted poet: I bought his ollected poems a few years ago. He should be better-known as a poet.
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Hadn't seen this review before. There is an irony that Dan Brown caused so much good writing about himself.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/dan-brown-inferno-clive-james-da-vinci-code
Brilliant, but it might have been helpful to be told which of Brown's books it was a review of!
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Brilliant, but it might have been helpful to be told which of Brown's books it was a review of!
I noticed that too. Anyway, it's Inferno.
I haven't read it, I just Googled "Dan Brown book Dante"
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Having posted the Clive James roast of Dan Brown - here's my favourite ever
https://patch.com/new-jersey/westfield/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown
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Back on topic this is a good tribute
https://amp.theguardian.com/culture/2019/nov/28/my-debt-to-clive-james-the-howlingly-funny-critic-who-made-tv-writing-sing?CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true