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Josip Manolić (wiki) dead at 104.

About time this 87-year-old Hollywood icon gets his own thread, especially with his consistent absences in public nowadays, sparking speculation about the state of his health. Doubt he'll see 90. One to keep on the DL's radar.

Now I'm tempted to post here a million times a day.

Carl Erskine dead at 97 and straight to QO.

Josip Manolić is a hit for @Commtech Sio Bibble, @wannamaker, @The Daredevil, @drol, @Bibliogryphon, @Summer in Transylvania, @Insane, @theoldlady, @diego, @DoorSlammer, @gcreptile, @msc, @LizLemon, @MortalCaso, @Book, @Funeralopolis and @MariNisia CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Josip "Joza" Manolic was the last one of the original state leaders, and that means the game has now ended. It's been almost seven years and we saw them falling one by one: Bush snr, General Anh, Mugabe, Tun Tin, Kim Yong-ju, Echeverria, The Queen, Comrade Jiang, Benedict XVI, Napolitano and finally Manolic. Scoring with the likes of legendary Burmese PM Tun Tin, @TQR has won the game with 8 hits!!! Congrats, well done ! I'll evaluate if a new game should be started, but I won't likely live to see the end of it!

Josip Manolic (1920-2024) "He is in very good health but can't currently be interviewed because he is in a coma" (Josip's family updates his status) "Joža Manolić je nadživio Joža Manolić" Age at death: 104 Known health issues: Severe COVID pneumonia in 2021, bedridden and received last rites in 2023. Cause of death: So sudden and unexpected he may have been murdered. Alignment: Resistance fighter during WWII, he was a controversial communist agent after the war, and took part in imprisoning archbishop Stepinac and putting him on a communist show trial. In the 90s he was seen as a moderate opposing ultranationalists. He was perceived by Croatians as the Ultimate Immortal, a bit like JP Enrile in the Philippines and Jimmy Carter in the Milky Way.

From the FT describing Truss: "Unfortunately, her approach worked a bit like this: imagine a bunch of people are stuck in a warm, stuffy room together. Everyone wants the windows to be opened, but they are fastened shut by complicated locks. While people try to work out how the locks operate, one of them, Liz, attempts to throw a chair through the window. The chair bounces off and hits her in the face."

Baseball Hall of Famer Whitey Herzog, Former Manager of the Cardinals, dead at 92.

Sorry.

I assumed Francis Ford Coppola had his own thread for years. He's 85 years old and directed some of the most iconic films ever made.

German former professional footballer and world cup winner Bernd Hölzenbein, who played as a striker, died at 78 years: https://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/eintracht-frankfurt/tot-mit-78-eintracht-frankfurt-trauert-um-weltmeister-hoelzenbein-87900948.bild.html At international level, he was a member of the Team that won the World Cup 1974.

No, nobody knows. It’s uncartered territory.

Because he dreams of Jimmy licking him all over.

@The Old Crem I have hidden your most recent post as, yet again, you have chosen to regurgitate a tweet and plaster it here with no context whatsoever. The tweet has no information about Sharon Osborne's health and you haven't even bothered to type anything which may indicate why it might be interesting. If you want to have another go, you're welcome. You seriously need to work on your quality control though!

It would be a bit silly (but this is Rishi we're talking about, so not entirely implausible) if he didn't. "Mr. Sunak, when is the election going to be?" "Oh, it was last week, I'm just not announcing it yet."

American artist Sylvia Fein (wiki) dead at 104 according to this San Francisco art page on FB. Post is from April 3rd. An unsourced edit to her Wiki page suggests she died on April 1st.

Frank Olson, Executive Who Linked O.J. Simpson With Hertz, Dies at 91

It might be of interest here to say that after Prince Richard dies, the Dukedom of Gloucester will cease to be Royal. After two generations they lose their Royal status. Richard's father Henry was a son of a monarch (George V) and Richard a grandson and first cousin of a monarch. After this the relationship of the Duke becomes too distant from the Crown. The same will apply to Kent when Prince Edward, the current Duke of Kent, dies. This is why Edinburgh was changed to a life peerage - to prevent the Dukedom going out of the immediate family.

Was watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents (later called The Alfred Hitchcock Hour) earlier, and was curious to see who's still around. Of the 361 episodes that aired from 1955 and 1965, only two of its many directors are still living: George Stevens Jr. (wiki, born 1932) and Lewis Teague (wiki, born 1938). Of its cast, the following (with Wiki pages) are still living: June Lockhart (wiki, born 1925) – oldest surviving but actually starred in one of the last episodes Dick Van Dyke (wiki, born 1925) David Frankham (wiki, born 1926) Barbara Dane (wiki, born 1927) Betty Harford (wiki, born 1927) Rosemary Harris (wiki, born 1927) Peter Walker (wiki, born 1927) H. M. Wynant (wiki, born 1927) Kathleen Hughes (wiki, born 1928) Nancy Olson (wiki, born 1928) Rachel Ames (wiki, born 1929) Vera Miles (wiki, born 1929) – the star of the very first episode Bob Newhart (wiki, born 1929) Ann Robinson (wiki, born 1929) Clint Eastwood (wiki, born 1930) Will Hutchins (wiki, born 1930) Gena Rowlands (wiki, born 1930) Nita Talbot (wiki, born 1930) Joanne Woodward (wiki, born 1930) Barbara Barrie (wiki, born 1931) Angie Dickinson (wiki, born 1931) Robert Duvall (wiki, born 1931) Darryl Hickman (wiki, born 1931) William Shatner (wiki, born 1931) Neile Adams (wiki, born 1932) Antoinette Bower (wiki, born 1932) Dabney Coleman (wiki, born 1932) Felicia Farr (wiki, born 1932) Gary Clarke (wiki, born 1933) Pat Crowley (wiki, born 1933) Mark Damon (wiki, born 1933) Kathleen Nolan (wiki, born 1933) Tom Skerritt (wiki, born 1933) Joby Baker (wiki, born 1934) Richard Chamberlain (wiki, born 1934) Joyce Van Patten (wiki, born 1934) Rex Holman (wiki, born 1935) Nancy Kovack (wiki, born 1935) Ruta Lee (wiki, born 1935) Joyce Meadows (wiki, born 1935) Nicholas Pryor (wiki, born 1935) Burt Brinckerhoff (wiki, born 1936) Bruce Dern (wiki, born 1936) Evans Evans (wiki, born 1936) Walter Koenig (wiki, born 1936) Susan Kohner (wiki, born 1936) Robert Redford (wiki, born 1936) John Wilder (wiki, born 1936) Zohra Lampert (wiki, born 1937) Barbara Steele (wiki, born 1937) Gus Trikonis (wiki, born 1937) Danielle De Metz (wiki, born 1938) Billy Gray (wiki, born 1938) Dolores Hart (wiki, born 1938) Anne Helm (wiki, born 1938) Chris Robinson (wiki, born 1938) Buck Taylor (wiki, born 1938) Lee Majors (wiki, born 1939) Eileen O'Neill (wiki, born 1939) Katharine Ross (wiki, born 1940) Susan Hart (wiki, born 1941) Jimmy Hawkins (wiki, born 1941) Tom Lowell (wiki, born 1941) Gigi Perreau (wiki, born 1941) Randy Boone (wiki, born 1942) Susan Silo (wiki, born 1942) Harry Shearer (wiki, born 1943) – child actor Cathie Taylor (wiki, born 1944) Marta Kristen (wiki, born 1945) – child actress Michael Burns (wiki, born 1947) – child actor Mimi Gibson (wiki, born 1948) – child actress Barry Gordon (wiki, born 1948) – child actor Gary Hunley (wiki, born 1948) – child actor Tom Nolan (wiki, born 1948) – child actor Veronica Cartwright (wiki, born 1949) – child actress Evelyn Rudie (wiki, born 1949) – child actress Mickey Sholdar (wiki, born 1949) – child actor Angela Cartwright (wiki, born 1952) – child actress Bill Mumy (wiki, born 1954) – child actor The most recent cast members to die were Jackie Loughery (wiki, 1930–2024) and William O'Connell (wiki, 1929–2024).

Werner Spitz, a forensic pathologist who testified at OJ’s trial, has died aged 97. He had also worked on the investigations of the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King.

Clarence Thomas misses session without explanation. Might be nothing, might be something.

Beverly LaHaye, Mrs. Left Behind, dead at 94.

So do I. Unfortunately I'm only 43.

Worked for Paula Cole tonight She's probably best known for her song "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?"