Deadly Week
Dec. 12th, 2008 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltmurnauObits of the week:
Forrest J. Ackerman, on December 5, of heart failure, at 92. I would not count myself as a actual science fiction fan, but I've read a lot of it, and his lifelong efforts to promote the genre were probably on balance all to the good (though here I invoke Sturgeon's Law, which I frequently do).
Bettie Page, on December 11, who after treatment for pneumonia slipped into a coma from which she did not recover. She was 85. Under all the smiles and winks and teasy silly costumes (and yes, sometimes the ropes and ball gags), she was a very beautiful woman who looked human, not at all like modern centrefolds (who all kind of resemble a shaved boy with long blonde hair and huge mammary implants).
Forrest J. Ackerman, on December 5, of heart failure, at 92. I would not count myself as a actual science fiction fan, but I've read a lot of it, and his lifelong efforts to promote the genre were probably on balance all to the good (though here I invoke Sturgeon's Law, which I frequently do).
Bettie Page, on December 11, who after treatment for pneumonia slipped into a coma from which she did not recover. She was 85. Under all the smiles and winks and teasy silly costumes (and yes, sometimes the ropes and ball gags), she was a very beautiful woman who looked human, not at all like modern centrefolds (who all kind of resemble a shaved boy with long blonde hair and huge mammary implants).
