Christopher Hitchens has died.
Christopher Hitchens has died.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#1Christopher Hitchens has died.
Posted: 12/16/11 at 1:46am
"Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging British-American author and essayist whose polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other provocations established him as one of his generation's most robust public intellectuals, has died. He was 62."
He was one of few strong voices that dared to stand apart, and that's a rare quality in this or any age.
Link to article.
#2Christopher Hitchens has died.
Posted: 12/16/11 at 2:17am(too bad..dying so young).wow...this guy was REALLY something. I was lucky enough somehow to engage him in conversation one nite after a show I was working at, and boy, what a brilliant, quirky and engaging wit! Went to a dive bar across the st. And he was super drunk, too (not I). Used to love him on TV interviews. Never minced words.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2Christopher Hitchens has died.
Posted: 12/16/11 at 2:51am
I agreed with him vigorously on some things (pretty much anything to do with religion) and found him to be a troll at other times (His whole Women. Aren't. Funny. nonsense). A brilliant man and superb writer, even if he was really wrong about Iraq and could clearly be something of a d-bag.
I was just reading his latest (and I guess now last) article in Vanity Fair yesterday. Actually, I never really got to the article. There was a picture of him that was so startling that I was unable to focus for a little while after. He was diagnosed with cancer not too terribly long after I was diagnosed with a different type of cancer and seeing that picture really brought back some visceral memories of my own struggles with that effing disease. I'm so bummed his fight ended differently than mine. His mind will be missed, even if he could be kind of an asshole.
Updated On: 12/16/11 at 02:51 AM
#3Christopher Hitchens has died.
Posted: 12/16/11 at 5:12amOne of the few public figures I can think of recently, who even when I completely disagreed with, I still enjoyed and respected his opinion. RIP
#4Christopher Hitchens has died.
Posted: 12/16/11 at 10:21am
His voice will be missed.
Gone too soon.
Christopher Hitchens - The Best of Hitchslap
Updated On: 12/16/11 at 10:21 AM
#5Christopher Hitchens has died.
Posted: 12/16/11 at 10:56amI wonder what Mother Teresa said when he arrived.
#6Christopher Hitchens has died.
Posted: 12/16/11 at 12:14pm
A Hitch classic from a few years ago. "Sausage-sized fingers" still makes me giggle to this day.
Falwell
Updated On: 12/16/11 at 12:14 PM
#7Christopher Hitchens has died.
Posted: 12/16/11 at 4:14pm
"My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass. ”
—Christopher Hitchens
Don't know about the kissing bit, but he was willing to take an azz-kickin' for his views. Helluva guy!
#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
#8Christopher Hitchens has died.
Posted: 12/16/11 at 5:18pm
He was an asshole but if you agreed with him on some issues, it didn't much bother you because you knew he had the intellect. When you disagreed with him, it gets very problematic. Hated his sexism and hawkishness but boy, he was a great writer, orator, and his final pieces were great reads.
"I wonder what Mother Teresa said when he arrived."
Oh he knows that if God were to exist he would not be at the pearly gates as he considers himself an enemy.... unless you think Mother Teresa is in a different place, entirely.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#9Christopher Hitchens has died.
Posted: 12/16/11 at 5:27pmSexism? Really? Why do you say that? Hitchens was a huge proponent for women's rights.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#10Christopher Hitchens has died.
Posted: 12/16/11 at 5:27pm
Why waste a doublepost?
Women and religion
Updated On: 12/16/11 at 05:27 PM
#11Christopher Hitchens has died.
Posted: 12/16/11 at 5:45pmPhyllis mentioned it before about his piece on Women in Comedy.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#12Christopher Hitchens has died.
Posted: 12/16/11 at 5:55pm
Oh, that "women aren't funny" thing? Sure - but as Phyl said, Hitchens was obviously trolling there. If you look over his lifetime, Hitchens was a huge proponent of women's rights, and even went so far to say that if women were given any kind of control over their reproductive rights, they inevitably bettered the environment they were in, because they didn't have to spend all their energy taking care of child after child.
He could be a chauvinist, yes, but never a misogynist. He had a great deal of respect for women.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#13Christopher Hitchens has died.
Posted: 12/17/11 at 1:31am
Finally, heaven has a new St. Christopher.
Oh, and Mother Teresa wouldn't even allow him to talk to her agent at the pearly gates.
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