This won't mean anything to an American but...fuck it. The actor John Savident has died at age 86. He was a familiar face on Coronation Street back in the nineties and for some odd reason I have been thinking about him the last few days. Actually I thought he died years ago. He was also famous for being stabbed. It's a great story, he got some bloke back to his flat for sex (although he claimed they were there to 'discuss the theatre', which has been my favourite euphemism for gay sex ever since) and he knifed him. This was back in the days when people didn't talk about homesexuality (he was a married man) and the media didn't openly talk about what went on so you had to join the dots a bit. It's very different now of course.
