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― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I knew very little of Moore's sixties and seventies UK work -- growing up I just knew him for things like 10, Wholly Moses and Arthur, and after that period he became more famous for being famous than anything else, at least stateside. I will always remember him for his hosting It's About Time, a brief but worthy documentary done around the time of Cosmos, I think, about the nature of time and physics. Special cameo appearance by Isaac Asimov!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dammit Ned, I thought I had a scoop. Arthur was hideous, poor guy.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's so nice of them to throw in the tenuously-relevant photo of Bo Derek: "Weep ... sob ... mmmm, will you look at that."

― Nitsuh, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A sad loss, though not exactly unexpected - he had been very ill for some time. If you've never heard the Derek & Clive albums or seen what remains of "Not Only... But Also..." you've really missed out. Try taking a look here - http://www.phespirit.i nfo/derekandclive/ - pisses all over his wretched film work.

― Chris Lyons, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

also his music - buy the Bedazzled soundtrack

― michael, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My parents have a book of "Beyond the Fringe" scripts. In the middle there's a bunch of black and white photographs that mystified me when I was young, because my little childe brane couldn't make the connection between the WORDS in the book and the PIX. But it was clear just from the latter that Dudley was the silliest of them all.

― Tracer hand, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned, you should check out the original Bedazzled if you haven't seen it yet. Decidedly non-wretched.

― nickn, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I'm sad. And I second the recommendations for Bedazzled, the film and the soundtrack.

I really want those Derek and Clive albums.

― Arthur He Does As He Pleases., Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Spike Milligan, John Thaw, George Harrison and now Dudley Moore.

I must be getting older.

I hope Pete and Dud are having a pint or 20 in heaven.

― Chris, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

re: Derek and Clive - they'd been reissued on CD i think, and the LPs turn up occasionally for a quid. Ad Nauseum is good, and Come Again has it's moments

― michael, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Come Again is classic in the extreme..

Rasberry Jam.... up the arse

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just heard this on the radio, and how sad. Ned: "Bedazzled" makes me piss myself laughing-- GOD is it funny, and groundbreaking. (Other Cook/Moore stuff nearly as good.) And the Bedazzled soundtrack: there's something to the "Love Me"/"I'm Self Contained" disjunct that cuts right to the core of pop music.

― Benjamin, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wonder if he regretted Arthur 2: On the Rocks to the very end?

― JC, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CLIVE: I heard that, er, George Stit had, er, moved away from, er, the, er, the Willesden area and, er, gone up, er, round Chadwell Heath.
DEREK: Cancer?
CLIVE: Yeah.
DEREK: Tch. ..... Oh my ..... It's funny you should say that 'cause you remember Enid? Who used to, erm, live across the road at number 104?
CLIVE: Yeah, just next to 105.
DEREK: Right.
CLIVE: Mmm.
DEREK: She's now working at the United Dairies down Green Lane.
CLIVE: What, cancer?
DEREK: Yeah.
CLIVE: Tch, Christ. You remember the Nolan twins?
DEREK: Ohhh, yeah, .....
CLIVE: Fifi? F-Fifi Nolan, .....
DEREK: Right.
CLIVE: ..... and .....
DEREK: And-, and Ronnie.
CLIVE: And Ronnie Nolan, mmm.
DEREK: Yeah.
CLIVE: They've taken up darts.
DEREK: Cancer?
CLIVE: Yep.
DEREK: Tch.

― Sam, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I heart Derek and Clive, I must dog out the albums that I've got on tape somewhere.

― chris, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

Still dead.

― Masked Gazza, Saturday, 15 January 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i hadn't realized he'd died!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 15 January 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

So is Generalissimo Francisco Franco.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 15 January 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't know this either!

― Awesome Welles (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 January 2005 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a Master List somewhere? Cause I'm definitely as out of the loop as amateurist.

― martin m. (mushrush), Saturday, 15 January 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I just forgot.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Saturday, 15 January 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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