RIP thread

[K_D]

Originally Posted by Greenman

The producer of Hill Street Blues and other 80's series Steven Bochco has died aged 70. I loved HSBlues it was so different to any other cop series from the USA seen here.

Steven Bochco
December 16, 1943 - April 1, 2018
US Television Writer and Producer

"... created several hit television shows including L.A. Law, NYPD Blue, and Doogie Howser, M.D."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Bochco

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/stev...lue-1202741169

[Grouchy]

Originally Posted by Greenman

The producer of Hill Street Blues and other 80's series Steven Bochco has died aged 70. I loved HSBlues it was so different to any other cop series from the USA seen here.

Sad news..

Hill Street Blues was one of the best cop shows ever. I recently re-lived an earlier time and bought the box set of episodes..

Bochco was a prolific producer of other good TV shows.



"Let's be careful out there...."

[tsunamiSD]

Lee Holley (20 April 1932 - 26 March 2018, USA)

I only learned of his death by reading of it on Mark Evanier's blog. Here is what he had to say:

Last Monday morning, a single-engine Mooney M20E airplane crashed and burned at the airfield in Marina, California. The pilot, who was reportedly killed upon impact, was the very fine cartoonist, Lee Holley.
Lee was born April 20, 1932 in Phoenix. He got his first cartooning job at age 15 and by the time he was 21, he was doing animation and layout work for the Warner Brothers cartoon studio. In 1957, he began assisting Hank Ketcham on Dennis the Menace, drawing the Sunday page, a few of the comic books and much of the merchandise art. That went on until 1960 when Lee sold his own syndicated strip, Ponytail, which he did until 1988. Between 1980 and 1988, Lee and his friend and frequent collaborator Frank Hill also produced the syndicated Bugs Bunny newspaper strip.
Lee was no stranger to Bugs, having worked on his cartoons at the Warner Brothers studio. But he also drew Bugs in comic books for Western Publishing's Gold Key line and that made me very happy because I was writing a lot of them. He drew most of the new stories of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Tweety & Sylvester that ran in the early issues of the revived Looney Tunes comic that Western launched in 1975 and did occasional stories for the Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig comics. (Online sources say he also drew The Jetsons for Gold Key but I don't think that's true.)
The editors at Western loved the way Lee drew teenage girls so much that they asked me to create an Archie-like teen comic for him to draw. The result was Tom, Dick and Harriet (not my title) which had three tryout issues but never graduated to a regular series. I wrote the first two and Lee did a terrific job on his end. We were both sorry there weren't more. Other comic books Lee drew would include the Ponytail comics published by Dell and later Charlton.
Though we corresponded a bit, I only spoke to Lee in person once — at a San Diego Comic Con in the seventies. He was a very nice man who obviously loved his profession…and why wouldn't he when he was so good at it?

there are a number of clips of him on YouTube drawing some of the characters that he worked on during his career. Here is one:


Lee Holley draws Dennis the Menace & Ponytail in Colo

note - Ponytail is a character that he created.

[bowlinggreen]

Originally Posted by Grouchy

Sad news..

Hill Street Blues was one of the best cop shows ever. I recently re-lived an earlier time and bought the box set of episodes..

Bochco was a prolific producer of other good TV shows.



"Let's be careful out there...."

That was a very good show. I keep meaning to watch some of those episodes again, and forgetting to.

Who could ever forget detective Belker growling and biting some hapless perp?

RIP Steven.

[Nightjar]

Originally Posted by tsunamiSD

Lee Holley (20 April 1932 - 26 March 2018, USA)

Wow!

Dying at 85 piloting a plane!

It's tragic of course, but he died a young man's death, at a ripe old age.

Who wants to go out with a whimper?

Let me die a youngman's death
not a clean and inbetween
the sheets holywater death
not a famous-last-words
peaceful out of breath death

When I'm 73
and in constant good tumour
may I be mown down at dawn
by a bright red sports car
on my way home
from an allnight party

Or when I'm 91
with silver hair
and sitting in a barber's chair
may rival gangsters
with hamfisted tommyguns burst in
and give me a short back and insides

Or when I'm 104
and banned from the Cavern
may my mistress
catching me in bed with her daughter
and fearing for her son
cut me up into little pieces
and throw away every piece but one

Let me die a youngman's death
not a free from sin tiptoe in
candle wax and waning death
not a curtains drawn by angels borne
'what a nice way to go' death

- Roger McGough

[gedly]

Anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela dies.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ource=Facebook

[Sam Spade]

Originally Posted by Greenman

The producer of Hill Street Blues and other 80's series Steven Bochco has died aged 70. I loved HSBlues it was so different to any other cop series from the USA seen here.

He revolutionised tv drama with shows like HSB, though rather suprisingly he was actually fired from the show....

Originally Posted by IMDb

Steven Bocho was fired from this show due to differences with his staff, and also due to the fact that the show struggled in the ratings, even though he was the main creative force behind it.

I have to say that my favourite of his shows was NYPD Blue.

[ultimatewarlord]

Originally Posted by gedly

Anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela dies.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ource=Facebook

Also complicit in the kidnap and murder of Stompie Moeketsi.

[Greenman]

Bit ironic that whilst he was in prison she enjoyed the freedom to menace and kill and as he came out weeks later she was jailed. Good riddance to a fairly nasty woman.

[Old Jud]

Originally Posted by ultimatewarlord

Also complicit in the kidnap and murder of Stompie Moeketsi.

Originally Posted by Greenman

Bit ironic that whilst he was in prison she enjoyed the freedom to menace and kill and as he came out weeks later she was jailed. Good riddance to a fairly nasty woman.

As expected the BBC are trying to put her on a pedestal with Mother Teresa.
The usual white lefty suspects will shed a few crocodile tears for her. meanwhile in the REAL WORLD, a lot of black South Africans (as well as white) will be rejoicing at her passing.

Her headstone should read......'Here lies the remains of Winnie Mandela -Terrorist,racist,torturer,murderer,embezzler, ect,ect.'