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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on November 27, 2019, 04:14:36 PM

Title: And now Clive James dead...
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 27, 2019, 04:14:36 PM
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
Title: Re: And now Clive James dead...
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 27, 2019, 04:45:43 PM
Sky apparently announced the death of Clive Anderson!
Title: Re: And now Clive James dead...
Post by: Anchorman on November 27, 2019, 04:51:16 PM
Sky apparently announced the death of Clive Anderson!
   


Clive James would've just loved that!
Title: Re: And now Clive James dead...
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 27, 2019, 04:56:31 PM
   


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.
Title: Re: And now Clive James dead...
Post by: Roses on November 27, 2019, 05:06:57 PM
James was an interesting broadcaster.
Title: Re: And now Clive James dead...
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 27, 2019, 05:17:09 PM
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
Title: Re: And now Clive James dead...
Post by: Robbie on November 27, 2019, 05:21:40 PM
Witty and clever, one of the old school.
Title: Re: And now Clive James dead...
Post by: Steve H on November 28, 2019, 07:53:58 AM
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.
Title: Re: And now Clive James dead...
Post by: Steve H on November 28, 2019, 08:11:14 AM
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!
Title: Re: And now Clive James dead...
Post by: jeremyp on November 28, 2019, 09:08:59 AM
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"
Title: Re: And now Clive James dead...
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 28, 2019, 11:13:02 AM
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
Title: Re: And now Clive James dead...
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 28, 2019, 11:21:23 AM

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