{"id":1261,"date":"2016-02-27T13:45:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2024-01-14T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T10:32:20","slug":"9th-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"9th February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/picture-643675.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/picture-643675.jpg\" alt=\"picture-643675\" width=\"590\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/picture-643675.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/picture-643675-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very sad to hear that my good friend Norman Hudis has died at the age of 93. A good innings for a lovely man, his work has made me laugh, cry, and think for more years than I care to remember. Obviously, as the scriptwriter for the first six Carry Ons, he created a British film legacy that continues to entertain millions across the world. His other work, from the rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll biopic &#8216;The Tommy Steele Story&#8217; to the animated adventure &#8216;A Monkey&#8217;s Tale&#8217;, via American television credits on the likes of &#8216;The Man from U.N.C.L.E.&#8217; and &#8216;Marcus Welby, M.D.&#8217; are very much worth searching out too. From our first meeting, we bonded as both writers, and friends. He looked me deep in the eyes and said: &#8220;You know, Robert, if there is a generation gap, you provide the bridge&#8221;. I&#8217;ll miss our laughs on stage, our e-mail correspondences, and our all too infrequent reunion dinners, when he found himself in London. Norman was a kind, gracious, and generous friend. Rest well, old chum. And Carry On. Always!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very sad to hear that my good friend Norman Hudis has died at the age of 93. A good innings for a lovely man, his work has made me laugh, cry, and think for more years than I care to remember. Obviously, as the scriptwriter for the first six Carry Ons, he created a British &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=1261\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9th February 2016<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}