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Nearly Sane

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Jonathan Miller dead
« on: November 27, 2019, 12:10:49 PM »
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Nearly Sane

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Re: Jonathan Miller dead
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2019, 12:55:20 PM »
And a more in depth obituary on the BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21144364
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Steve H

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Re: Jonathan Miller dead
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2019, 01:04:54 PM »
Pretentious old sod.
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Re: Jonathan Miller dead
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2019, 04:45:51 PM »
Quote from: Steve H on November 27, 2019, 01:04:54 PM
Pretentious old sod.

Said the cantankerous not quite so old sod.
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Re: Jonathan Miller dead
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2019, 05:20:07 PM »
This:- Erudite and clever, witty and paradoxical, Jonathan Miller was a born performer, a brilliant talker and a first-rate director.

He will be remembered as a man, who even at his grumpiest, couldn't help being entertaining.
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Definitely. I enjoyed seeing him on TV but that was a while back. Do remember 'The Body in Question', 'Mikado',  amongst other things.

Glad he reached old age.
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Re: Jonathan Miller dead
« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2019, 05:29:17 PM »
Quote from: Robbie on November 27, 2019, 05:20:07 PM
This:- Erudite and clever, witty and paradoxical, Jonathan Miller was a born performer, a brilliant talker and a first-rate director.

He will be remembered as a man, who even at his grumpiest, couldn't help being entertaining.
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Definitely. I enjoyed seeing him on TV but that was a while back. Do remember 'The Body in Question', 'Mikado',  amongst other things.

Glad he reached old age.
The Body in Question is brilliant. One of those great documentary series that changes what a documentary does that seemed to happen every few months in the 70s.

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Re: Jonathan Miller dead
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2019, 05:35:18 PM »
Quote from: Robbie on November 27, 2019, 05:20:07 PM

Glad he reached old age.

Unfortunately, he was suffering from Alzheimers
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Re: Jonathan Miller dead
« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2019, 10:20:33 PM »
Quote from: Robbie on November 27, 2019, 05:20:07 PM
a first-rate director.

He was a crap director - unsubtle and pretentious. I've heard of (but didn't see, thankfuly) a production of his of Hamlet, in which everyone but H. wore grey, supposedly to suggest that it was all going on in H's head, and which was denounced as pretentious rubbish bythe OU literature lecturer I heard about it from; and talking about his production of 'The Mikado' in an interview, he said, wuite rightly, that it was essentially pantomime. Well, panto is very traditional, and you mess around with it at your peril (Oh, no you don't!), so why did he set it in 1930s England?
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Re: Jonathan Miller dead
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2019, 06:19:21 AM »
Here's an oddity I hadn't seen before film by Jonathan Miller on Patti Smith


https://youtu.be/u1uOG3bKGNI
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