Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time

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James was a fan of the St George Dragons and wrote admiringly of Rugby League Immortal Reg Gasnier who was a schoolmate at Sydney Technical High School. [75] He guest presented one episode of The Footy Show in 2005. [76] Health and death [ edit ] It's frustrating, because there are threads running through all of this, several at a time -- but it's not tied together well enough to truly make for an argument (or several). In the mid-1980s, James featured in a travel programme called Clive James in... (beginning with Clive James Live in Las Vegas) for LWT (now ITV) and later switched to BBC, where he continued producing travel programmes, this time called Clive James's Postcard from... (beginning with Clive James's Postcard from Miami) – these also eventually transferred to ITV. He was also one of the original team of presenters of the BBC's The Late Show, hosting a round-table discussion on Friday nights. [35] The Burma Campaign UK: AboutUs". Archived from the original on 10 October 2007 . Retrieved 24 December 2007. Star's secret affair". ninemsn: A Current Affair. 23 April 2012. Archived from the original on 24 June 2012 . Retrieved 26 June 2012.

Luzzi, Joseph. "This Could Be 'Heaven', or This Could Be 'Hell'", The New York Times, 19 April 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2019. urn:lcp:culturalamnesian00jame:epub:5ba8e8c8-e67a-4fa0-8c5a-2035d813422f Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier culturalamnesian00jame Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t88h2mv8x Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780393061161 He then studied for a further degree in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, but did not read the required books. Instead, he became president of Footlights and established himself as a critic. “Reading off the course was in my nature. My style was to read everything except what mattered.” He nonetheless surprised himself by getting a 2:1, and began a PhD on Shelley. Describing religions as "advertising agencies for a product that doesn't exist", James was an atheist and saw it as the default and obvious position. [64] [65]a b c d e f Jeffries, Stuart (27 November 2019). "Clive James Obituary". The Guardian . Retrieved 27 November 2019. Clive James — writer, TV broadcaster and critic — dies aged 80 ABC News, 28 November 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019. Waterson, Jim; Cain, Sian (27 November 2019). "Clive James, writer, broadcaster and TV critic, dies aged 80". The Guardian. Reviewing the book for The Atlantic, Christopher Hitchens argued that James tries "to glamorize the uninspiring - tries to show how tough and shapely were the common sense formulations of Raymond Aron for example, when set against the seductive, panoptic bloviations of Jean Paul Sartre" and that he "succeeds in it by trying to comb out all centrist clichés and by caring almost as much about language as it is possible to do." Additionally, Hitchens noted that "a unifying principle of the collection is its feminism" and that "one of James's charms as a critic is that he genuinely seems to enjoy praising people." [3] Contents [ edit ]

James certainly endorses some very worthwhile books (and does so with quite convincing enthusiasm). So he not only pays tribute to Sophie Scholl but dedicates the book to her memory (along with three others) -- and it's one of the few portraits where he really gets carried away, for example quoting without questioning that: "The chief executioner later testified that he had never seen anyone dies so bravely as Sophie Scholl". Japanese Maple' by Clive James". The New York Times. 27 November 2019 . Retrieved 29 November 2019. Atkin and James toured together to promote both the final album, a "contractual obligation" collection consisting of parodies and humour numbers written over the years, and James's own Felicity Fark epic poem. James wrote the album sleeve notes, which mostly linked the songs with thinly disguised jibes at popular artists and trends. On stage James both read from his poem, and introduced the album songs. Despite the success of the tour, there were no more recordings by Atkin, who pursued other opportunities and eventually became a BBC radio producer.Clive James obituary: 'A man of substance' ". BBC Online. 27 November 2019 . Retrieved 27 November 2019. Appleyard, Bryan (12 November 2006). "Interview Clive James". The Times. London . Retrieved 30 April 2010.