Clive James has died

[WildRosie]

I knew he'd been very poorly for some time. He did well to fight as long as he did.

Oh this is not a good day, Clive James, Johnathan Miller and Gary Rhodes. Fond memories of all of them, they all gave something to this world to be thankful for, Gary epitomised British Cuisine, Jonathan - Beyond the Fringe and Clive, thank you for giving us Margarita Pracatan!

Darling Clive James. It's so sad; he was so funny, gentle, insightful, original... I'm going to reread all his writings. He was a one-off.

Yes wonderfully clever and insightful writer.

He was such a great writer, and spoke so well about his impending death. I can't imagine having such clarity of thought and expression.

OMG, so sad.

Ah, that is sad. I’ve enjoyed his writing, and always found him so funny on telly.

RIP Mr James.

I am quite surprised to discover he was ‘only’ 80, he seemed to have been around forever. Big, big part of my childhood. Such a clever, witty and, it seemed, kind man. Whilst I joked about Margarita, I just went back to watch a clip of his show when she was on, and it was so lovely to watch his face and delighted little hand clap as she starts playing, quite moving.

Oh yes
Forgot margarita pratacan

Didn’t see this thread so mnet hq please delete mine

Margarita Pracatan!
That's a blast from the past!

RIP Clive

Such a shame.

He was on the telly a lot when I was a youngster and I horrified most of my friends by finding him quite sexy! Think it was that twinkle he had in his eye

Oh, he was sexy all right!

Lovely, clever, funny man.

RIP Clive

Haha, he definitely had some sex appeal, the accent helped too 🤔

That is terribly sad. I was not aware Gary Rhodes had also died (59!), but had heard the news about Johnathan Miller. To add also to those Sir Stephen Cleobury, Director of Music at King's Cambridge, and of the King's College Choir. So many icons.

it was so lovely to watch his face and delighted little hand clap as she starts playing, quite moving.

That was such an important quality in a lot of his telly stuff. I remember the one where he showed clips of frankly baffling Japanese TV shows; it could easily have just been 'laughing at funny foreigners' but he seemed to be enjoying it so much and laughing WITH the people in the clips, not AT them. He was so warm.

I hadn't heard about Jonathan Miller or Sir Stephen Cleobury. What a shit couple of days!

Stephen Cleobury - no!

Sadly when I saw him live about 10 years ago it was not a well thought out show. RIP.

'Deep on the ocean floor, the lava flows'

This is sad. I'm old enough to have watched him as the presenter of Cinema, and followed his work since. While I couldn't alwyay agree with his views, he wrote divinely.

I wonder if he will be buried in Australia? I seem to remember him expressing a wish for this.

RIP Clive

Loved listening to him.

Intelligence is always sexy.

Just what I was thinking, Judashascomeintosomemoney, and Stephen Cleobury, as someone said.

Been a sad week.

Such wonderful work they'll all be remembered for. It'll be incredibly sad listening to the Nine Lessons and Carols this year.

I met Clive James a couple of times, I once showed him how to set up the video recorder to record a programme whilst he and my then employer ( was a nanny) went out to dinner. Such a lovely man.

@echt I saw somewhere that he died on the 24th and that his funeral was a private affair today in Cambridge (I think at Pembroke). Guess his body/ashes could still go back to Australia though. Is his wife English or an Aussie do you know?

It’s only coming back to the thread that has alerted me to Stephen Cleobury’s sad demise, Carols from Kings will be even more poignant this year. And yes, Clive James was sexy. I was a teenager when ‘....On TV’ was airing but that’s exactly what I (secretly) thought. I also thought I might be in a minority but maybe not! As pp said, intelligence is sexy. A fitting James quote:
‘Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive’