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2 pointsDon't know anything about Bob Hamlin's status, but he's also the only unknown for Alice in Wonderland, too, where the Mellomen played the cards that were painting the roses red. Kathryn Beaumont (Alice) is still alive and turning 80 this year, but she's the last confirmed survivor; Hamlin's a question mark, and everyone else is gone. On the topic of Disney movies, Fantasia is an interesting one. None of the six vocal performers from the original 1940 version are still alive (the last one was Julietta Novis, the 'Ave Maria' singer, who died in 1994). But the master tape of Deems Taylor's original voiceover narration has deterioriated so badly that they can't use it anymore, so the narration has been re-recorded by three other actors since then, most recently by Corey Burton in 2010 - and all three of those actors are still alive. So I don't know if you want to count that one or not. Disney's Swiss Family Robinson (1960) only has one surviving cast member: Tommy Kirk, who turns 77 this year. Outside Disney, I also looked up the three Topper movies, which I thought might be good candidates: Topper (1937), Topper Takes a Trip (1938), and Topper Returns (1941). Topper Returns yielded a hit - in fact, the last two cast members of that movie (Patsy Kelly and William H. O'Brien) both died way back in 1981. The other two movies each have one unknown gumming up the works, with everyone else confirmed deceased. In the original Topper the mystery actress is Donna Dax, who played a minor role. Her name also pops up in several other famous movies from the late 30's and 40's, most notably Citizen Kane, so she's someone who could end up haunting this thread if no one can find any information on her. Topper Takes a Trip has the more familiar problem of a total unknown named Jimmy Colman, who played a waiter in his only film role.
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2 pointsEssentially, yeah. Or, to try and put it slightly more clearly in Leah's inimitable prosy style: I was lying in my Shaman friend's tipi enrobed in rags stylish looking like a fucking 15th century clairvoyant then he came in found me composing my shit told me impassioned let's perform carnal happy fun times neath the scintillating night sky stars glistening glimmering dancing spectating the bloody perverts behold we connect like Katie Hopkins that time with her ex in that field fear rises in my belly hoping no one nearby is brandishing a camera
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1 pointHistorical note: I read that book when I was about 11, under its original title of Ten Little N-iggers. Amusing that the politically correct title that replaced it was later itself deemed politically incorrect.
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1 pointThere are only four survivors from the 1974 remake: Charles Aznavour, Stephanie Audran, Elke Sommer & Maria Rohm
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1 pointAnd the producer for the Topper series was Hal Roach, who died aged 100 in 1992, so you've got a behind-the-scenes name who outlasted the entire cast for Returns.
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1 pointCould've just married Andy Dick and we woulda gotten the jist of it
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1 pointA man who claims that Earth is flat tried to leave it in a homemade rocket Saturday but failed to overcome the gravitational force of a 13,166,800,000,000,000,000,000,000-pound sphere directly beneath him. In fairness to Mike Hughes, he knows how to build a rocket. He built them for many years under the precepts of classical physics, when he was still a relatively conventional daredevil, which is to say, one who believed Earth is round. But Saturday marked Hughes's third aborted launch since he declared himself a flat-earther last year and announced a multipart plan to fly to space by the end of 2018 so he could prove astronauts have been lying about the shape of the planet. Hughes blamed technical difficulties — possibly a bad O-ring (snark) — for his steam-powered rocket's failure to ignite this weekend in the Mojave Desert. SC
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1 pointMaria Menounos is a US TV presenter. She's done a fair bit for the WWE (wrestling) but works for Access Hollywood or one of those type shows. Bit self-centred imo. Her mum is her mum, and has brain cancer. The dog was an innocent party in all of this, I'm pretty sure.
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1 pointThe man who wrote the McDonald's "I'm Lovin' It" jingle jumped to his death from the upper floor of a Chicago hotel in 2008. Eat shit ("Syö paskaa" in Finnish) is the EP album of the Finnish punk band Shitter Limited, released in 1992. The cover of the album was an image of McDonald's mascot, Ronald McDonald. McDonald's hamburger chain threatened the band with legal actions and the disc was pulled out of the market.
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1 pointSaw the Damned at the O2 Academy on Saturday. Captain Sensible and Dave Vanian et al were in fine fettle...
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1 pointTrue enough, she wasn't terribly memorable until she died and the past 'famous' event came racing back to life.
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1 pointOr Brian Cox and Courtney Cox. If Courtney married Brian, divorced and married Brandin Cooks, divorced and married Paul Cocks, then divorced and married John "Cocksy" Cocks... she would be Courtney Cox-Cox-Cooks-Cocks-Cocks.
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1 pointBloodhound Gang are today Kid, the porno queen song very up-to-date even now. Its the level of 'shock' , 'Lola' was banned by the beeb for product placement, ie Coca Cola, had to revisit it quickly. Wasn't about the 2018 wankfest over 'trans'. Brown Sugar by the Stones more iffy. 'She lost it at Astor' wid be tame today for example, but its all about the times you're in. Made*broadcast are two different things.
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1 pointFuck sake! That's a shock. Love that show, watch it most weeknights if I have time. RIP.
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1 pointOkay I admit it, this is bothering me. I presume that this is instructions to a woman from a man. Also I presume that the word 'heals' is simply atrocious spelling and the correct word intended is 'heels'. But then I imagine being a woman lying on her back trying to point her heels at Jesus (who again I presume is in heaven) and I worry that my wife is simply not flexible enough. (plus I presume that in the final line the reference to handbags the intention is not to link the fact that the bottom of a handbag has more germs on it than a dog's anus). So much to think about in three lines it's ruining my afternoon at work.
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1 pointThe latest: Meghan McCain is excited for her dad John McCain’s progress. The 81-year-old Arizona senator has been fighting a Stage 4 brain tumor, and she opened up about it on Thursday night’s The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “He’s doing really well. It’s a really scary cancer." She added that her father went through a “rough time” at Christmas, noting that he has since “made this crazy amazing recovery.” “I guess I shouldn’t be surprised because he is so resilient in so many different ways,” she added. “He’s a tough bastard. I hope he comes back to Washington soon, because I would like to see him go up against Trump a little more.” SC
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1 pointIvan Fandino, famous bullfighter, killed by a bull: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/matador-ivan-fandino-dies-after-10640508
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