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SusieP40 · 21/01/2013 14:37

Sad a larger than life character.

gazzalw · 21/01/2013 14:38

That's very sad...Knew he'd given up his restaurant critic job for the Sunday Times but not aware how close he was to death....

Sparklingbrook · 21/01/2013 14:39

Nooo, Sad I liked him, even though he was a real grump, he was very funny with it.

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JoanByers · 21/01/2013 14:44
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OnTheBottomWithAWomansWeekly · 21/01/2013 14:45

He had no prob with taking the mick out of himself in his column, they used to print all the insulting letters from readers next to it. He was only married about a year or two also.

threesocksmorgan · 21/01/2013 15:36

very sad

ripsishere · 22/01/2013 02:57

Sad, but my overwhelming image of him is his constant referrals to the long good Friday and friendship with Joan Collins.

Piemother · 22/01/2013 03:57

He went to my school which he was always shockingly rude about. He was right in some ways though the food was terrible!

Viviennemary · 22/01/2013 12:46

That is sad. I read his diet book which was more like a food diary and it was quite entertaining. I liked him on that programme where he had a meal at different people's houses and gave them a crit on it. There weren't very many episodes.

TheCarefulLaundress · 22/01/2013 19:36

Didn't he direct the Death Wish films with the most violent gratuitous rape scenes in cinematic history?

zippey · 24/01/2013 03:26

Quite an interesting and powerful interview with Michael Winner and Anne Raeburn on the overlong sequence and realism of the rape scene and film merits in Death wish 2. Quite shocking when Winner asks Anne if she had ever been raped:

Frizzbonce · 24/01/2013 11:36

By all accounts he was an absolute monster to work with. However, the ghastly Richard Littlejohn once hosted a discussion programme where he invited a lesbian couple to ostensibly discuss their difficulties in adopting and of course threw all kinds of horrible mysogynistic abuse at them. He clearly expected MW to join in but on that occasion Winner said that the 'lesbians behaved with great dignity and you Littlejohn have behaved like an arsehole.'

gazzalw · 24/01/2013 13:06

I think I've read that he could be very rude but that he could be the most kind and generous man too....

I remember seeing him having lunch with Jenny Seagrove in Kensington Place back in the early 1990s....(saw Janet Street Porter with her Sigue-Sigue Sputnik beau the same day)

torychicetc · 24/01/2013 15:29

Having the critics letters published was braver than most public figures RIP

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