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Dead at 81. Telegraph obit, and just got a BBC Breaking News notification.

Esther Ranzen has been forced to pull out of a Westminster debate on assisted dying because she is too ill. She was planning to attend the debate on Monday. Dame Esther Rantzen sends message to MPs after pulling out of assisted dying debate No new information, second time in a month that she's not appeared at an event (see post above by @RadGuy). From the article: In a statement Dame Esther said: "While, sadly, my health issues (I have stage four lung cancer) prevent me from attending it myself, I will be watching the debate closely as it affects my own decision to go to Dignitas in Zurich if necessary, to protect my family from witnessing a painful death."

Not a death anniversary as such, but I missed my own anniversary on death list. Twenty years ago on the 20th April 2004, I joined the death list. (Actually it was a bit earlier as I lurked for a couple of months before joining).

And it seems like Frank Field is the one and only hit in March and April for the Prediction Game... what a drought at the moment...

45 years ago today Blair Peach died at the hands of the police. Either you know or you don't. Look him up.

Rob Dray out at relegated Taunton in National League South (Southern Premier next year). Bit harsh, they've had financial problems compounded by the fact that their pitch regularly floods in bad weather and they got massively behind with their fixtures and had a run at the end catching up. At one stage of the season they also had a ground sharing arrangement with Truro (also in NLS) so their pitch got a double pummelling at times.

Ro Jai-bong has died aged 88.

Frank Field a miss for me but a hit for some: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68887629 Probably need a scoreboard soon as the bodies pile high.

24/Apr/2024 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 43 Adele — Chasing Pavements 25 Taylor Swift — Love Story 15 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 10 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody +4 07 Rihanna — Russian Roulette -6

Shirley MacLaine is 90.

This video is from Lars Von Trier a few months ago. In 2022, he was diagnosed with parkinsons disease. You can clearly see the toll it's taking on his body. Overall, the way he talks about his situation is pretty grim as well.

For completeness I'm going to note that the IMDb page for Miss Jason has 2 different people confused. The drag queen Miss Jason (aka Jason Sutton) did appear in Maisie. The other Miss Jason is this British YouTube star, who appears in the Celeste music video. I watched that music video twice earlier and thought I was going mad when I couldn't find him and that's why. Mel C makes an appearance in that music vid strangely enough. So I'm guessing the YouTube star just pops up in random stuff but isn't a "performer" as such given the sensible Equity rule of not allowing the same name to be used by two individuals.

"Working assumption" - code for "unless the bastards try and knife me after the local elections."

24/04/24 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 41 Adele — Chasing Pavements 25 Rihanna — Russian Roulette 17 Taylor Swift — Love Story 14 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 13 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody +4 04 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind -6

1924: Ip Chun / Priscilla Pointer 1925: David Graham / June Lockhart 1926: Abdoulaye Wade / Noreen Riols 1927: Alvin Rakoff / Cleo Laine 1928: Noam Chomsky / Hazel Ascot 1929: Bob Newhart / Violeta Chamorro 1930: Peter Procter / Gladys West 1931: James Earl Jones / Isabel Martinez de Peron 1932: Indarjit Singh / Antonia Fraser 1933: Alexander Mitta / Yoko Ono Congratulations, Azrael.

Battlestar Gallactica’s Terry Carter dead at 95.

Mooryati Soedibyo dead at 96.

Perhaps it is fair to say the one on the left is a C, for Conservative?

Brian Tobin is dead aged 93.

I'm not proud of this, but my second thought was, the one on the left is a liar. My first thought was indeed, omg how crass is that? And the third (which should have been second I know - and I'm sort of mortified it wasn't - was why did they allow themselves to be used like that?). At least I'm being honest I suppose.

Congrats @Azrael 1924 William H. Webster/Marianne Bernadotte 1925 - Eugen Gomringer/Anita Lasker-Wallfisch 1926 Michael Blumenthal/Betsy Jolas 1927 Thomas Niguchi/Nayantara Sahgal 1928 Desmond Morris/Peggy Dow 1929 Peter Dale Scott/Queen Ida 1930 - Adônis (poeta sírio libanês)/Jennifer Johnston 1931 Alfred Brendel/Caterina Valente 1932 Dabney Coleman/Nonny Hogrogian 1933 Richard Riley/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

23/Apr/2024 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 44 Adele — Chasing Pavements +2 27 Taylor Swift — Love Story -2 26 Rihanna — Russian Roulette -2 20 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 09 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody +2 06 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind -2

All I want is for the country to be run by honest, competent grown-ups who put the country's and the people's interests before their own. Yes I know it's too much to ask now.

22/4/2024 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 40 Adele — Chasing Pavements 26 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 25 Taylor Swift — Love Story  24 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind 23 Rihanna — Russian Roulette 17 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody -6 07 La Roux — In For The Kill +4

Miguel de Miguel Montañés dead at 102.