Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant

Not to seem even more like an insensitive ho-bag than I generally do, but I had no idea Helmut Newton was alive.

Let alone that he had to die in such horrendous fashion. RIP indeed.

Strange that he died like Desmond Llewellyn -- a guy in his eighties in an auto accident. What is it about 1960s icons that have something to do with cultural perversity and octagenarian car crashes? Whatever Helmut's faults (and there were many), I still loved the bastard. Andy Kaufman meets Hugh Hefner meets Diane Arbus.

Captain Kangaroo died too.