So long, Bob!

 So sad to hear of the passing of the brilliant Bob Hoskins, who has died from pneumonia at 71. I loved his work, especially from the beginning in the legendary Dennis Potter's ' Pennies from Heaven' with Cheryl Campbell and Gemma Craven both of whom we fell in love with and especially Bob!  . . . . I also enjoyed his production of 'The Raggedy Rawnie' an idea that fascinates me still. . . . to his work with the deliciously brilliant Cathy Tyson in 'Mona Lisa' that also starred Michael Caine and Robbie Coltrane. To 'The Long Good Friday' with Helen Mirren to 'Roger Rabbit' where he studied his daughter's ability to enter the world of the imagination until he was hallucinating for real. That's method!

We had mutual friends and we shall miss his unique position in the pantheon of British 'Stars' and the extraordinary character he brought out in everything that he acted in. Brought up by a communist father as an atheist we had much in common in many ways

 Our thoughts got out to his family . . . . . . we are all the poorer for his passing

The legendary Stephen Fry, another humanist/atheist hero, lead the tweets

“Oh no, Bob Hoskins. Gone? That’s awful news,”

he tweeted.

“The Long Good Friday was one of the best British movies of the modern era. A marvellous man.”

The Independent news of Bob Hoskins tributes