[Misc] RIP Jonathan Miller

Goldstone1976

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Herts

• Nov 27, 2019

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Doctor, Comedian (Beyond the Fringe, with Alan Bennett, Cook & Moore), Broadcaster (The Body in Question etc.), Theatre Director (Artistic Director of the Old Vic, directed Olivier et al), Opera Director (Glyndebourne and the Met et al), Sculptor, Author.

God, what a polymath.

RIP to an utter legend.

 

The Antikythera Mechanism

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The Body in Question was an amazing TV series. RIP JM

 

jakarta

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• Nov 27, 2019

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Is it Au Revoir?

No Perkins....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5YW4qKOAVM

 

DavidinSouthampton

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Good grief - a major entertaining part of my life for more years than I care to remember. ….. and I've just written exactly the same on the Clive James thread.

 

Lower West Stander

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RIP.

A very clever and funny guy who was never up his own arse like Alan Bennett

 

Motogull

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He was a clever bleeder and no mistake.

 

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They say things come in threes - and today we've had Clive James, Gary Rhodes, and now Jonathan Miller.

RIP to all three gentleman - and I guess the rest of us can now breathe easily, at least until tomorrow!

 

Stato

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I remember loving the version of Eugene O'Neill's 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' that he directed in the eighties. He made the decision that, at times, the actors should talk over each other instead of waiting for the other actor to finish their lines: a very perceptive move that made the family squabbles far more alive and real. It also knocked nearly an hour off what is a very long play. The version I saw on the telly is on the internet if anyone has a couple of hours to spare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uVwAPVfDnI