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Keith Waterhouse RIP
March51
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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
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Refused to work for Maxwell - top man.0
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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. RIP0 -
RIP.0
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Yeah, used to like him in the Mirror when that was a good paper - long time ago now though :-(0
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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!)
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[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.0 -
RIP, great writer0
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RIP, remember his daily mirror columns
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Will be missed.
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