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It's time to count the corpses, it's time to list them right, it's time to check the obits on the Muppet Show tonight...

Alright, she’s been a pick in past years on the DDP and discussed on here a few times. Finally solved thanks to a user on Wiki who got this from the National Film Information Service. Dusty Anderson (wiki) died in 2007 aged 88/89 in Marbella, Spain (same place her film director husband died in 1993). Death notice online here.

Aww, my gut told me she was on her way out, which is why I picked her in DDP. It might have seemed like a long shot but here we are before the end of January. I don't profess to be some kind of stan (it's only a punny username after all) but she was my favourite of the Mel Brooks-era comedy actors. Very talented and throughly deserving of her Oscar. Watching The Last Picture Show feels like a fitting tribute.

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Actually, that might be Annie Nightingale now I come to think of it.

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Have little people being dying a lot recently? If so, all our teams are equally fucked- very few, if any, little people picked in the DDP!

Finnish actor Tiina Rinne has died. She was 91. https://www.iltalehti.fi/viihdeuutiset/a/b333d511-a36d-4954-bb4c-248ebf9fec60 Most known for her role as matriarch Maija Mäkimaa in the soap opera Kotikatu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotikatu

Alan Alda is 85 today.

Tom Parker got his first Covid vaccine jab: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9193393/The-Wanteds-Tom-Parker-reveals-hes-Covid-jab.html

Looks like it has fallen to Mel to mark the passing of his generation

Cloris Leachman a hit for @En Passant

I was in the Gloucester HMV shop where I briefly once worked, and Ozzy Osbourne came in to try and get a refund on a vinyl album he'd clearly and clumsily scratched up himself. I refused him and he shuffled off sheepishly. Perhaps I represent God or St Peter or Satan, denying him entry to the afterlife for now. Later, or perhaps earlier, I had a putting competition around the shop with the store manager. The 'flags' were feet of the racks (I suppose). Every customer seemed to want advice rather than wanting to buy anything. There was yet another TV advertised Elvis compilation on sale and people asked me about it.

Updated to acknowledge the death of Cloris Leachman.

So, Mary Tyler Moore Show cast: Ted Knight1986 Mary Tyler Moore2017 Georgia Engel2019 Valerie Harper2019 Cloris Leachman2021 Betty White, 99, is now the last female standing. Gavin MacLeod, 90 next month, and Ed Asner, 91, both still with us too. Could they outlive all of the female regulars?

A truly sad loss. Knew her best from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, of course, but also from the Disney film, The North Avenue Irregulars, as well as multiple animated films as a voice actres.

A remarkable performer, and someone that very well could've (should've?) been on the List. She won 8 Primetime Emmys (tied with Julia Louis-Dreyfus for the most ever) from 22 nominations, not to mention an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and even a BAFTA. Hit #5 for me already. May she RIP.

His FB fan page announcing that U.S. TV host Sonny Fox (wiki) has died aged 95 from COVID-19 complications: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Sonnyfoxgroup/permalink/10156787951142168/ PS Second time I’ve tried to embed a FB link lately and it hasn’t worked. I think it’s buggered.

In terms of quantity of hits it actually has been extremely high (already at 30+ hits with still a few days to go in January). It’s just in the big household names there hasn’t been that many so far.

Apparently Adrian Campos, former F1 driver and team boss and current owner of Campos Racing in junior formulae has died. Must be sudden as he looked well on January 14th on a Facebook Post.

She's always been a clueless, provincial blagger in thrall to those with real musical taste and understanding. The indie Fearne Cotton, the living narrator of LCD Soundsystem's 'Losing My Edge'. Peel may have liked just about every piece of crap ever recorded, but at least he seemed like he made up his own mind about it.

Looking well here... https://www.instagram.com/p/CKfUxPWjKdQ/?igshid=j49przvi31dl

Cara O'Sullivan, a noted Irish soprano, has died after a short illness. She was 59. https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40214804.html

Final act for Abe Vigoda on this day 5 years ago, aged 94.

From a local Facebook page .... an unpleasant chav couple have been ranting that someone knocked down their kids' snowman. It got really nasty, with threats issued, and a ridiculous number of people chiming in saying how dreadful it was, how mean, such evil people about. And the kids being offered sweets and toys to ease their grief. Then a neighbour posted footage from his CCTV showing the snowman collapsing by itself.