Talk:Jonathan Miller

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Please do not add pointless, unhelpful headings like "biography" or "life and career". This article is a biography, those things are implied by the fact that it's an article about a person. The heading in question does not help usefully structure the article, it is not a logical way to group the paragraphs in question and it creates an unhelpful single sentence introduction. I get the feeling that people are adding it to shift the TOC up the page, which can be done in more sensible ways which comply with WP:MOS. Joe D (t) 02:47, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jeremy Hilary Boob

The article states: Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D., a strange character in the Beatles animated movie Yellow Submarine, is widely believed to be based on Miller. Boob describes himself as an "eminent physicist, polyglot classicist, prize-winning botanist, hard-biting satirist, talented pianist, good dentist too", and the band sing the song Nowhere Man about him.

These are weasel words and no evidence for this "widely believed" thing is cited, not even that it is widely believed. -- Zz 11:15, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

There is exactly one possible citation for this on the web. "Lee Minoff said this character was based on director Jonathan Miller, who’d directed Minoff’s play ‘Come Live With Me’ on Broadway."[1] No mention of when or where Minoff said this, although it does at least pin down who was supposed to have said it. — coelacan talk — 12:43, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

If a more reliable source (along the line of your criticism) could be given, then the claim may return to the article. -- Zz 23:33, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Research Fellowship at UCL

I have tried to edit the section where this reference occurs so that the user a better grasp of chronology. I am pretty sure it occurred in the early 1970s. I remember A. S. Byatt referring to his academic position at UCL in the revival, a decade ago, of The Brains Trust on BBC2, but I do not have access to, er Who's Who to be more precise. The Web only refer to this period of Miller's career in mirrors of this article. Philip Cross 19:24, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I've added the dates of Miller's fellowship at UCL, 1970-73, taken from Who's Who. Mick gold (talk) 15:33, 26 January 2008 (UTC)