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So did you think you'd outlive OJ?

The year is 2040. AI Trump rules half the world, Clorox is running the msc memorial Deadpool, and James Whale is still saying he's only got one more Christmas this time.

Latest according to Bev Stohl "Noam has not made significant progress, I’m sorry to say. I doubt he will be able to return to the public eye, as he is not communicating much if at all. At 95, his natural aging process is also a factor. His body is tired. I will continue to keep you posted as I learn more. Thank you all for caring. Bev"

Now. (For a week at least).

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

Josip Manolić (wiki) dead at 104.

Dead. Obituaries: BBC, Daily Mail, The Independent, The Sun, The Guardian, Daily Mirror

Now you have outlived Frank Field, how about a real challenge. Will you outlive Linda Nolan?

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.

Not to break up the thread by discussing the king's health, but from this week's Popbitch:

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

Terrible when he slips into his coffin and he doesn't fit.

Battlestar Gallactica’s Terry Carter dead at 95.

Her name sounds like "rigor mortis" !

As someone currently undergoing chemotherapy, about 80% (if not more) of the patients I see at chemo (including myself) still have their hair. Not all chemo drugs cause hair loss, and even if they do, for some cancers (not leukaemia or lymphoma, I believe) you can opt to wear an ice cap during treatment if maintaining your locks is important to you. The chemo = bald image is outdated. Also, you can be normally mobile/feel fine even with widely metastatic cancer.

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.

Sorry.

So prominent was this case you could compile several DDP teams from it. Murder trial of O.J. Simpson, 1995 concerning the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson (1959–1994) and Ron Goldman (1968–1994) accused: O. J. Simpson (1947–2024) judge: Lance Ito (wiki, born 1950) defense "Dream Team": led by Johnnie Cochran (1937–2005), with Robert Shapiro (wiki, born 1942), F. Lee Bailey (1933–2021), Alan Dershowitz (wiki, born 1938), Robert Kardashian (1944–2003), Shawn Holley (wiki, born 1962), Carl E. Douglas (wiki, born 1955), Gerald Uelmen (wiki, born 1940), Barry Scheck (wiki, born 1949) and Peter Neufeld (wiki, born 1950) prosecution: Marcia Clark (wiki, born 1953), William Hodgman (wiki, born 1952), Christopher Darden (wiki, born 1956) and District Attorney Gil Garcetti (wiki, born 1941). other trial contributors: investigator Mark Fuhrman (wiki, born 1952), domestic violence expert Lenore E. Walker (wiki, born 1942), chief medical examiner Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran (wiki, born 1949), physician Robert Huizenga (wiki, born 1950s), pathologist Michael Baden (wiki, born 1934), forensic scientist Henry Lee (wiki, born 1938) and toxicologist Fredric Rieders (1922–2005). broadcasters covering the chase: Zoey Tur (wiki, born 1960) – spotted his vehicle from a news copter, NBC's Tom Brokaw (wiki, born 1940), ABC's Peter Jennings (1938–2005) and Barbara Walters (1929–2022), and Jim Hill (wiki, born 1946). broadcasters covering the courtroom: Larry King (1933–2021), Linda Deutsch (wiki, born 1943), Harvey Levin (wiki, born 1950), David Margolick (wiki, born 1952). Writers Dominick Dunne (1925–2009) and Joe McGinniss (1942–2014) also had full access. others associated: football player Al Cowlings (wiki, born 1947) – close friend of O.J. / aided him in the low speed police chase whilst evading capture, actor Kato Kaelin (wiki, born 1959) – with friend Nicole Brown Simpson shortly before her murder, former football coach to O.J. John McKay (1923–2001), and fellow players Walter Payton (1953–1999) and Vince Evans (wiki, born 1955) – all spoke to Simpson during his police chase to talk him out of committing suicide, former NFL player and pastor Rosey Grier (wiki, born 1932) – visited and comforted O.J. shortly after his capture, television personality and author Faye Resnick (wiki, born 1947) – friend of Nicole's who O.J.'s defense team described as a drug user in debt to dealers who may have been involved in the murders, journalist Jeffrey Toobin (wiki, born 1960) – printed a famous article claiming that the defense were considering suggested the glove was planted at the scene by "racist" investigators, Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan (wiki, born 1933) – provided Cochran with bodyguards during the trial after he received death threats, prosecutor and author Vincent Bugliosi (1934–2015) – wrote the famous book "Outrage" detailing why O.J. got away with murder, Willie L. Williams (1943–2016) – head of the LA Police Dept during the case and trial, lawyer Daniel M. Petrocelli (wiki, born 1953) – filed the 1997 wrongful death civil suit against O.J., screenwriter Pablo Fenjves (wiki, born 1953) – ghostwrote "If I Did It", a collaborated account with O.J., journalist Ed Gordon (wiki, born 1960) was the first to interview O.J. following the trial, with Katie Couric (wiki, born 1957) getting an in depth interview with O.J. in 2004 about the case, actress and television personality Ruby Wax (wiki, born 1953) did a famous interview with O.J. in 1998 where he pretended to stab her with a banana, detective William Dear (wiki, born 1937) – published "O.J. is Innocent and I Can Prove it", convicted serial killer Glen Edward Rogers (wiki, born 1962) – claims to have been hired by O.J. to carry out the murders.

I didn't get around to posting about Sunak's shitty speech yesterday about sicknote Britain. Isn't it funny how the Tories solution is always to reclassify people as being fit for work under false pretences rather than dealing with the underlying issues. Maybe if we had hospitals fit for purpose, anything resembling a functioning mental healthcare system, a social care system that actually helped people recover and so much more besides (not to mention appropriate pandemic response measures that kept people safe when it was most needed) that we wouldn't have so many people claiming benefits. I do have personal experience. My dad suffered a stroke in 2010 at 59 - left him with no short-term memory and scrambled long-term memory. He has common sense, he can function on a day-to-day level and has a certain amount of independence - can walk to the paper shop and get his paper, but anything more complicated is a minefield (if we sent him to Asda, by the time he's got there, he'd have forgotten what he went for). You can have the same conversation with him umpteen times in a day and the Blackburn in his mind is not the same as the Blackburn of 2024 (from bus routes to shops in town to the price of anything). Anyway, that's just some background to saying that when the DWP did their reviews when they were moving everybody over to PIP, dad was reassessed. We did our own count-up of the points as we saw them and got that he should be on the lower rate for mobility and the higher rate for the living, which would match what he was previously on. When the verdict came back, he got nothing. Not a single point on the whole review. 0/30. Benefits stopped. Took it to review: no change. Appealed it. Months went by. Eventually appeal date came up. Took him to a tribunal in Blackburn with a judge and two medical advisers. They asked him some questions, we helped him to answer where necessary - went out and waited for the verdict. Worn down, we weren't sure we'd get anything at all. We went back in to be told he would get the higher rate for living and the lower rate for mobility. With no prospect of change, they said it would be indefinite, but officially labelled it for 10 years, simply because that way we wouldn't be blindsided by a sudden review at some point. But the hope is since we've already won on appeal once, he should be safe now. But it was a ridiculous and worrying 6-8 months (something like that, I forget how long it was now, I've tried to blank it out). Unsurprising newsflash: the Tories are heartless bastards.

Yes. Ida Sahr was alive, but has now died aged 105: https://www.dailygazette.com/news/kirk-douglas-sister/article_c1b5d7fa-f750-11ee-9682-0b0c2125b38d.html