{"id":23969,"date":"2022-01-06T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23969"},"modified":"2022-01-06T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:08:00","slug":"obit-watch-january-6-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23969","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: January 6, 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"

Lawrence N. Brooks<\/a>. He was 112 years old, and, at the time of his death, was the oldest surviving veteran of WWII.<\/p>\n

Assigned to the mostly Black 91st Engineer General Service Regiment stationed in Australia \u2014 an Army unit that built bridges, roads and airstrips \u2014 Private Brooks served as a caretaker to three white officers, cooking, driving and doing other chores for them.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

Mr. Brooks said he considered himself fortunate to have been spared combat duty when later in the war troop losses forced the military to send more African American troops to the front lines. In 1941, fewer than 4,000 African Americans were serving in the military; by 1945, that number had increased to more than 1.2 million.<\/a>
\n\u201cI got lucky,\u201d he said. \u201cI was saying to myself, \u2018If I\u2019m going to be shooting at somebody, somebody\u2019s going to be shooting at me, and he might get lucky and hit.\u2019\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By way of Lawrence<\/a>: Willie Siros<\/a>, noted Austin SF fan, book collector, book dealer, and a personal friend. (Apologies if that Facebook link is wonky: for some reason, I can view it on my phone, but I can’t view it on the big computer even in incognito mode. At least, not without logging into my non-existent Facebook account.)<\/p>\n

Peter Bogdanovich<\/a>. Ordinarily I would wait until tomorrow, but it looks like they had this one in the can. (And it has already been corrected once.) THR<\/a>. Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before the end of the \u201970s, however, Mr. Bogdanovich had been transformed from one of the most celebrated directors in Hollywood into one of the most ostracized. His career would be marred for years to come by critical and box-office failures, personal bankruptcies, the raking of his romantic life through the press and, as it all unspooled, an orgy of film-industry schadenfreude.<\/a>
\n\u201cIt isn\u2019t true that Hollywood is a bitter place, divided by hatred, greed and jealousy,\u201d the director Billy Wilder once observed. \u201cAll it takes to bring the community together is a flop by Peter Bogdanovich.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wouldn’t mind seeing “Paper Moon”. I saw “What’s Up, Doc?” many many years ago, and would welcome seeing it again. And we’ve watched “Last Picture Show” recently. I’d also like to read those MoMA monographs.<\/p>\n

Though Mr. Bogdanovich repeatedly disavowed the connection, critics liked to point out affinities between Welles\u2019s career and his own: Both men began as directorial wunderkinds. (\u201cCitizen Kane,\u201d released in 1941, was Welles\u2019s first full-length feature.) Both were later expelled from the Eden of A-list directors. (In the 1970s, a down-and-out Welles lived for a time in Mr. Bogdanovich\u2019s mansion in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles.)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

In the late 1990s, after declaring bankruptcy again, the down-and-out Mr. Bogdanovich lived for a time in the guesthouse of the young director Quentin Tarantino.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawrence N. Brooks. He was 112 years old, and, at the time of his death, was the oldest surviving veteran of WWII. Assigned to the mostly Black 91st Engineer General Service Regiment stationed in Australia \u2014 an Army unit that built bridges, roads and airstrips \u2014 Private Brooks served as a caretaker to three white […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,97,31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-movies","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23971,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23969\/revisions\/23971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}