Michael Gough, 1916-2011
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?Michael Gough passed away earlier today at the age of 94. Gough will surely be best remembered by nerds for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four Burton/Schumacher Batman movies, which he played with a quiet dignity and a wry humor, even while pretending to be happy to see Alicia Silverstone. However, Gough’s career included more than 100 movies and TV shows, from early Doctor Who and The Avengers, countless Hammer horror films, and movies such as Top Secret, Sleepy Hollow, and several Shakespearean adaptations.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.