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A man whose career makes Al Pacino look consistent. He was in Rocco and His Brothers and The Leopard, but he was also in Airport 79 and Asterix at the Olympic Games.

He's a continental phenomenon. Eternal A-list name in Europe.

I can't believe you guys are trying to argue rationally with someone who has "Mannequins" listed under interests.

Yeah selfish bitch needs to buck her ideas up

They're falling like dominoes, so I went for Fats.

Just looked at the DL obit. "Booth was best known for his role as Mike Rawlins in the shockingly racist 1960s/70s BBC sitcom, Till Death Do Us Part." I do feel it's inaccurate to describe 'Till Death Us Do Part' (sic) as "shockingly racist". The main character (Alf Garnett) was indeed racist, but he was constantly ridiculed by his daughter and son-in-law (Booth) who found his racism reprehensible. The show reflected the generation gap where the younger characters had more liberal attitudes. Alf was usually the butt of all the jokes: the audience laughed at him and not with him.

Happy Birthday! Meat Loaf, 70 Today!

Dawn of the Dead

Aye, but you keep telling us it's beautiful

Ah, Ruzickova (or as our player decided to spell it for this pool Rusickova) is now playing the harp rather than the harpsichord, elsewhere and pointage duly awarded.

FAO: YoungWillz Did you know a pre-fame Russel Tovey played a checkout assistant in a 1999 WH Smith advert, back when Nicholas Lyndhurst was their star spokesman? At 8:08 in this, after Lyndhurst in drag pretends to urinate in the wrapping paper section:

^^^ bringing together the Fourth Reich premise. A unified Europe under one economic behometh, led from Berlin with one currency and effectively one border.

Rising Damp Edited - Beat me to it!

Ah good I thought I was out of touch - I mean, I usually am, but I always considered the show anti-racist (because Alf is often shown to be wrong) like that Rossiter/de la Tour show I've forgotten the name of right now. Mitchell was an athiest Jew and lifelong liberal, so used to be horrified at the BNP style fan mail he'd get for the show.

Edgar Degas dried on this day 100 years ago, aged 83.

I keep seeing the name Herman Wouk in my head so might as well go for him .Also 4 of the 5 centenarians are still alive so one of them has to die surely !

2017 has fewer days than 2016, so maybe not as big. Was that the kind of answer you had hoped for?

Aren't you supposed to be at nap time now?

Yeah, but the mayhem that will be caused in that particular game when one of the big American political beasts goes will be a sight to see.

Holy hell I missed a bumper of a day, didn't I? How is Wouk not yet dead? I'm still on that train...

In the last episode of Soap 2000, Richard Mulligan died of colon cancer. Confused, you won't be....

Quick quick... King Michael

Most people seemed to think that Tony Booth wouldn't make it, and they were right...

You are a star DI.

It's fine to post it in the "Dead of" year thread. All deaths would be posted here if I was in charge.