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William Gianelli, American senior civil servant during the Reagan administration, died March 30th in Monterey, California at the age of 101.

UK publisher Felicity Bryan already dead at 74, shortly after she announced her cancer-related retirement: https://www.thebookseller.com/news/felicity-bryan-dies-aged-74-1207542

The lovely Prunella Scales turns 88 today.

Bruce Kent is 91 today Doreen Mantle is 94.

American author of novels such as Love, Roger (1969) and The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1970) Charles Webb died at 81 years: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/06/22/charles-webb-novelist-found-fame-not-fortune-novel-graduate/ He was best known for his 1963 work, The Graduate, which was adapted into a popular 1967 film. His later novel, New Cardiff, was also turned into the 2003 film, Hope Springs.

I was just thinking What made you think of that?

Wonder if Jim Cornette will get some more heart problems after being outed as a cuck

Joey Ryan might be one to watch . Deleted everything online twitter,wrestling merch etc.After he's been been exposed allegedly as a serial rapist and multiple sexual assaults. Looking at prison time by the looks of it , if only half are true.

British motorcyclist/superbike rider Ben Godfrey has died aged just 25 after a crash at Donnington park. https://www.crash.net/bsb/news/938521/1/superstock-rider-ben-godfrey-dies-track-day-accident

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/11919522/ben-godfrey-dead-aged-25-donnington-park-crash/ British suoerbike star Ben Godfrey dies aged 25 in a motorbike crash at Donnington Park.

I've remembered who this was now. Not a king, but a soldier. Bertrand Du Guesclin Don't ask how I know this.

Finally... 3 of 6 centenarians bishops have died this year

We do not look back, but forward! Benedikt on 16th slot for 2021!

Bummer!

What about Frank Gehry (91), Mary Quant (90), Liz Sheridan (91) Or Tippi Hedren (90) ?

Watching a Channel 5 thing last night about 1978, think it a repeat from that series that Dirty Den and Jim Bowen appeared on just before dying in 2018. Anyhow, Eric Chappell (Rising Damp writer) and Ted Childs (The Sweeney/Inspector Morse producer) both showed up and are still alive. I think I knew about Chappell as hes on Willz's teams here or there abouts, but Childs was a new one to me, so sharing it.

Cancellation of the festival and summer holiday season will have hit them particularly hard on top of that.

Buzz Aldrin if he survives the year !

William Hale, an Emmy-winning film and television director whose work includes Journey to Shiloh, S.O.S. Titanic, The Murder of Mary Phagan, and The Streets of San Francisco, dead at 88.

Endre Lépold, hungarian Olympic sprinter who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics died at 64 https://www.bama.hu/sport/helyi-sport/elhunyt-lepold-endre-az-mte-olimpikonja-2596247/ (in hungarian)

Just because you don't care doesn't mean nobody cares.

OdH

Alright, update for three hits: the popular pick Vera Lynn, Ian Holm and surprisingly popular Nanci Ryder. The latter hit means that Banana and RadGuy switch places for indeed another time. Don't forget: the replacement day is in two weeks. Rank Team Points 1 Death Impends 771 2 gcreptile 661 3 RadGuy 626 4 Banana 608 5 Cpt. Chorizo 564 6 Deadsox 533 7 Joey Russ 529 8 msc 509 9 DevonDeathTrip 496 10 John Key 475 11 Book 469 12 Skinny Kiltrunner 465 13 The Quim Reaper 457 14 JiroemonKimura 437 15 The Mad Hatter 427 15 Clorox Bleachman 427 17 Sean 422 18 Grave Danger 420 19 The Unknown Man 413 20 drol 398 21 theoldlady 375 22 Torva Messor 368 23 Sir Creep 342 24 Toast 311 24 The Old Crem 311 26 Etushispushingupdaisies 285 27 Chilean Way 279 28 YoungWillz 269 29 Kenny 248 30 Gooseberry Crumble 200 31 Bibliogryphon 192 32 Great Uncle Bulgaria 179 33 markb4 170 34 ThePrematureBurial 141 35 Pedro67 57

As an aside, Timothy West looks good for 85. Must be all that Royal Jelly.

Most of the misery comes down to contracts - people with little power in a negotiation sign deals that trade off the costs of making them famous with future royalties (meaning basically if they start making serious money they pretty soon discover the contract obliges them to give it all to the record company or - these days - the management company that handles tours). Shit if you have a short term pop career. Those who've made serious money have survived long enough to learn. So - for example - Genesis are definitely NOT coming back because they're skint. They were skint decades ago and couldn't at first understand why they had chart albums and small royalty cheques, when they realized exactly how much it was costing to record those prog rock anthems they got smart. When they jumped ship for a new record contract they sank the advance into their own studio saving the studio costs, then when the albums shifted industrial quantities they went on massive tours to milk the fans and slept soundly knowing other people were booked into the Genesis studio and paying to be there. The moral being, most of those who get minted do so because they learn to behave like the people who took a lot of money from them in the early days. Fairly sure we' had this chat over a decade ago somewhere hereabouts! David Crosby - btw - had a choice about taking up freebasing as a hobby, so arguably less deserving of sympathy than the two guys from Bros who were - according to their recently deceased ex-manager - "not the brightest," and were skint largely because they didn't understand the difference between gross and net income until it was too late. And, those two (three at the start) were always likely to have a short pop career with a few big hits.