Keith Waterhouse RIP

March51

Keith Waterhouse, author, playwright, and journalist died on Friday aged 80.Amongst many works he wrote Billy Liar,screenplays for A Kind of Loving, Whistle Down The Wind and scripts for That Was the Week That Was , The Frost Report and Budgie. Also brought Worzel Gummidge to life on the stage and T.V. He also started a campaign for the correct use of the apostrophe . He wrote columns for the Daily Mirror and, after a falling out, the Daily Mail. In Who's Who listed his sole recreation as 'Lunch'. RIP

Airman Brown

Refused to work for Maxwell - top man.

stilladdicted

The children of today, he wrote, were missing out on "falling into ponds, eating poisonous berries, contracting stomach ache from under-ripe stolen apples, getting lost, being bitten by dogs, fighting and starting fires, sitting in cowpats and acquiring bumps the size of a duck egg on their heads".
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Jeffrey Barnard may have been unwell, but he's in my legend book. RIP

Algarveaddick

RIP.

Stig

Yeah, used to like him in the Mirror when that was a good paper - long time ago now though :-(

bingaddick

When I used to do amateur dramatics, the first ever play I was in was co-written by Keith & Wills Hall. It was called Celebration. I don't remember much other than I was petrified and the play had it's funny moments (mainly when I wasn't speaking!)

RIP

Badger

[quote][cite]Posted By: Airman Brown[/cite]Refused to work for Maxwell - top man.[/quote]

Robert maxwell avoids paying taxwell,like many another dirty swine,he kept his money in Lichenstein.

stonemuse

RIP, great writer

cblock

RIP, remember his daily mirror columns
when they had good journo's

Miserableoldgit

Will be missed.
RIP