To answer the thread title...
...you can't be a has-been if you're a never-was.
I don't wish him any Ill, but apart from a few pseudo intelligentsia in the media no one really knows who he was.
...am more of a lasagne-man me-self....A true polymath. Also a grumpy man. I’ll miss him. I loved his mafia styled Rigoletto.
I’m sorry to hear that, but not so sorry that I’ll lose any sleep.Ive never heard of him in 54 yrs
Me too, I'm 59 & have been aware of him for a long time, not a fan of his, but I was aware of him.I’m sorry to hear that, but not so sorry that I’ll lose any sleep.