Obituaries - RIP
It is a very sad day that we have to say farewell to both Arthur C Clarke and John Hewer. Or is that HAL and Captain Birdseye?
Either way, we have lost two massive icons of 20th C society. As the Guardia puts it:
"The actor John Hewer, who has died aged 86, embodied Captain Birdseye, the face of fish fingers, in a series of television commercials from 1967 to 1998. He outlived brand-personalities such as the Milky Bar Kid and the Honey Monster, and came 65th in the Channel 4 poll of the 100 greatest TV adverts in 2000. Seventeen years earlier he had done rather better when he was voted "the second most recognised captain in the world", having been pipped to the post by Captain Cook.
"Giant among imaginative promoters of the ideas of interplanetary travel, the colonising by man of nearby planets and the urgent need for peaceful exploration of outer space, Sir Arthur C Clarke, who has died aged 90, was pre-eminent because of his hard and accurate predictions of the detailed technologies of spaceflight and of the use of near-earth space for global communications."
Two colossi in one day. Think deeply about why you are here.
Either way, we have lost two massive icons of 20th C society. As the Guardia puts it:
"The actor John Hewer, who has died aged 86, embodied Captain Birdseye, the face of fish fingers, in a series of television commercials from 1967 to 1998. He outlived brand-personalities such as the Milky Bar Kid and the Honey Monster, and came 65th in the Channel 4 poll of the 100 greatest TV adverts in 2000. Seventeen years earlier he had done rather better when he was voted "the second most recognised captain in the world", having been pipped to the post by Captain Cook.
"Giant among imaginative promoters of the ideas of interplanetary travel, the colonising by man of nearby planets and the urgent need for peaceful exploration of outer space, Sir Arthur C Clarke, who has died aged 90, was pre-eminent because of his hard and accurate predictions of the detailed technologies of spaceflight and of the use of near-earth space for global communications."
Two colossi in one day. Think deeply about why you are here.
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