Brian Murray (IBDB) (IMDB), veteran South African broadway actor, has died aged 80. Besides broadway, he also appeared in TV shows and films including The Angry Silence, League of Gentlemen and Disney's Treasure Planet.
Ri Kun-mo, Premier of North Korea between 1986 and 1988, died in 2001 according to NK expert Alexandre Mansourov. Plus an anonymous IP continued to add 2012 as his Wiki date of death. There is no reason to doubt he is dead.
According to this, Don Cherry died on April 4th, 2018 aged 94: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2174998692729514&id=1530062100556513
UK #6 (1956) Band Of Gold
Not the DDP pick. But perhaps a Su Wukong one.
Just finished watching Is Paris Burning? and oh boy, was it a slog. It really didn't need to be 175 minutes long. War films from that time are fairly undramatic but I like that because it seems more realistic, almost as though the characters are numb to the conflict (the film took place years after WWII began). I recognised my 3 picks so it was all worth it, ha!
Nothing but respect for all those obituary writers who have so far ignored a Nobel prize winner, the oldest living baseball player and a man every newspaper wrote about last December, so I can do my update at the weekend instead.