Ernest Maxin - d. September 27th 2018

In heaven we rise early,
soft-shoe steps to finesse, 
showstoppers to perfect, 
but first: cue the music!
we have breakfast to prepare.

Read about Ernest Maxin here

Chas Hodges - d. September 22nd 2018

This is the last round, fellas;

one more on the joanna 

then home. Still, I’ve got

some beer in the sideboard,

and a bit of brown bread.

read about Chas Hodges here

Denis Norden - d. September 19th 2018

The news today

wasn't all glum;

script rewritten

forever, ideas

taken from there

to here, and no

director to say
Cut! Can we do
that life again?

Read about Denis Norden here

Fenella Fielding - d. September 11th 2018

I think we flirted in a dream
though what remained when I awoke
was velvet soused in bitter smoke,
a voice that whispered life's a scream
and death the corniest of jokes.

Read about Fenella Fielding here

Liz Fraser - d. September 6th 2018

Beyond froth and fizz,

feigned innocence 

and foxy innuendo, 

was the flash of eye,

the fresh smirk that said

I know

exactly

what I'm doing. 

Read about Liz Fraser here

Burt Reynolds - d. September 6th 2018

Today, your last wisecrack

doesn’t feel like a joke,

the blondes have all left you,

the Trans-Am is broke,

and in a flash of white lightning

you went up in smoke.

Read about Burt Reynolds here

Jacqueline Pearce - d. September 3rd 2018

At the end of the galaxy

is evil, designer-draped, 

stilted in unwise heels, 

eyes dark with power,

Shiva in a ballgown,

Death-Next-Door.

Read about Jacqueline Pearce here

Neil Simon - d. August 26th 2018

Your characters: simple

yet cock-eyed.

Your humour: truth,

but magnified,

the sweet and bitter

side by side.

read about Neil Simon here

Lindsay Kemp - d. August 24th 2018

Beyond dance,
beyond mime
beyond prose
is the essence
of performance;
how you moved, 
how you moved us.

Read about Lindsay Kemp here

Aretha Franklin - d. August 16th 2018

This is the gospel:
that a choir will gather
to wring the last drops
of song from their souls,
to give you your propers
when you get home.

Read about Aretha Franklin here

Bernard Hepton - d. July 27th 2018

The secret is out;
The Stalag is deserted,
the cafe is shuttered,
the last act 
has left the Circus.

Read about Bernard Hepton here

Barry Chuckle - d. August 5th 2018

To you, pratfalls are sense unspooled.
To me, slapstick is the purest art.
To you, fol-de-rol is for child or fool.
To me, I am the idiot at its heart.

Read about Barry Chuckle here

Tab Hunter - d. July 8th 2018

To the girls 
you left behind 
you were everything;
swoon-bait, boy soldier,
young love whose smile
broke hearts
ninety-nine ways.

read about Tab Hunter here

Peter Firmin - d. July 1st 2018

Listen to the Otwituary here

Read about Peter Firmin here

Harlan Ellison - d. June 27th 2018

On the edge of forever
is a city of gold and glass,
though it is founded 
on pulped fictions 
and the girders 
of your imagination.

Read about Harlan Ellison here

Leslie Grantham - d. June 15th 2018

Sometimes the script
leaves the door ajar
for unlikely resurrections.
A weighted soul 
sinks into a canal,
and everything 
is murk and ripples.

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Eunice Gayson - d. June 8th 2018

Do you remember 
the first time? The thrill
of someone’s surrender
to the kiss, or the kill?
It bonds me to forever;
indelible, uneditable, still.

read about Eunice Gayson here

Peter Stringfellow - d. June 7th 2018

Your perdition;

to become Tiresias

in basque and mullet,

work the eternal club

where gentlemen

are not gentlemen

and all members 

are upstanding.

Read about Peter Stringfellow here

Alan Bean - d. May 26th 2018

Your canvasses,
- footsteps in dust,
blue globe on
a gold-leaf visor -
stretch 240,000 miles,
hang in the galleries
of our future.

read more about Alan Bean here

Verne Troyer - d. April 21st 2018

Hollywood is no Lilliput,

no imaginarium;

it is the reality

that shelters the unreal,

where stature

is not measured

in feet and inches.

Read about Verne Troyer here