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Another actor of Germany's longest running soap opera "Lindenstraße" has died: Kostas Papanastasiou. He was 84 and suffered from dementia. He is actually Greek, but is closely associated with this German series where he played his role from 1985 to 1996 (guess what: as a Greek restaurant owner!). He also owned a restaurant in real life, long before his acting activity. https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/medien/kostas-papanastasiou-ist-tot-der-griechische-wirt-aus-der-lindenstrasse-ist-gestorben/27826468.html

There are also many from Cars 2. As well as Dooley, Wallis, Marin, Waltrip and Ratzenberger, there is also: Michael Caine (age 88, voice of Finn McMissile) Sophia Loren (age 87, Italian dubbing of Mama Topolino) Vanessa Redgrave (age 84, voice of Mama Topolino and The Queen) Brent Musburger (age 82, voice of Brent Mustangburger) David Hobbs (age 82, voice of David Hobbscap) Franco Nero (age 80, voice of Uncle Topolino) Joe Mantegna (age 74, voice of Grem)

This is Hampson's daughter's obituary: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/news-mail-au/obituary.aspx?n=elizabeth-vivien-gibson-viv&pid=158712571&fhid=12368. No mention of father, so seems that he was probably deceased by then, as it mentions her in-laws.

Bill Virdon is a unique for @RoverAndOut

Former college football player and coach Derek Sparks, dead after a pancreatic cancer fight: https://www.yahoo.com/now/former-washington-state-standout-derek-030100866.html

RIP Assman.

Thank you, sincerely, for sharing that. Not something I would have found organically but exactly the wholesome content I needed on this no-bones day.

Give it up Toastie. You cannot win. Gooseberry wants to paper the world (and worse, here) with OK and Hello standard dross and nothing will stop it. I've done my Canute to this with predictable results.

US character actor Lou Cutell, `Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm et al, has died aged 91.

English composer Gordon Crosse (wiki) dead just short of his 84th birthday.

Doctor Who Day! Just look at how far... the show has descended. You know what's been missing? Glee. Joy. Science. I'm sure the current series has had some wetting their knickers. I for one haven't paid it any attention, caught some crappy moments pre-Strictly. Some alien-racist remark about a dog like humanoid being "Scooby-Doo" caught me off guard, unchecked by any character. Also, Tom Baker was trending. I'm off to change my pants, as the crap fell out of me thinking he had carked it.

Would have been a popular pick in the Advent avalanche. And he actually IS a DDP pick for the always curious Theme Team "Not Gone Yet, but Still Forgotten". However, because of his illnesses, the forum actually didn't forget him.

1Dick McTaggart 2Baroness Sharples 3Anthony Sher 4Lynne Reid Banks 5June Brown 6June Spencer 7Anne Baker 8Herbie Flowers 9Jet Black 10Rosemary Squires 11Margaret Barton 12Sammy Chung 13Frank Williams(autosports) 14Frank Williams(comedy actor) 15Daniella Westbrook 16Terry Medwin 17Winnie Ewing 18Vilma Hollingbery 19Phyllis Dal ton 20Beryl Vertue

He's been added. Others will in time. Despite Wordpress crashing repeatedly, the LOTM is updated (who knew there was a Blue Peter theme team once?), the LOTL has more names on it, and we're up to date on the front page stuff like obits. (The theme team league update can wait though.) Last time we were all up to date on DDP obits, the Reaper started up like he was suffering a Gooseberry Crumble enema...

Peter Aykroyd, former cast member of Saturday Night Live, and writer for it, dead at 56: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/peter-aykroyd-dies-saturday-night-070340253.html

Next year will be my 10th and final year in the DDP. I began deathpooling because I like competitions in general, and because I enjoy reading about/discussing celebrities. However, the researching illnesses side of it was ironically never really my cup of tea. For example, finding out whether someone's cancer is at stage 1, 42, or whatever. Or maintaining a long/shortlist in any other month than December. And all of that is reflected in my poor DDP track record over the years. I guess part of it is also because I ended up not wanting my teams to look like everyone else's. You know the deja vu feeling you get when you read every team's entries. I think you can liken it to a meal with ingredients: The better the ingredients are, the better the meal will become. But if you start experimenting with too many strange foods , what comes out of the oven might turn out a complete disaster, even if original. Did you know that 2/180 of my total main DDP team picks have been unique hits (plus 3 LoTLs and 2 already dead)?* Lol. All of this to say that maybe I will go more mainstream in DDP 2022. Just like my debut DDP 2013, although that lot had a super high average age. Perhaps I will still find a few interesting under-the-radar picks in late December, but I will only select them if I feel that it's worth the risk. Rest can be dumped to the bunny pool or Deathrace. The latter one, I only entered once because it usually ends before you've even started sobering up from New Year's Eve... As for theme teams, I won't be using the Disney one anymore. Perhaps an inventor team, though those are tricky because you rarely have those Gyro Gearloose type of inventors who single-handedly come up with something brand new. It's mostly engineers who have patents for improving something that only those in that field can comprehend. Anyway, best of luck to you all in the future DDPs. To be more specific, I mean the DDP 2023 and beyond, not the coming year. *My unique hits were Lennart Johansson & Princess Christina of Netherlands (both DDP 2019 coincidentally). The ones who got Eleanor Rigbied were Magnus Härenstam (DDP 2015), Robert Raiford (DDP 2017) & Christie Blatchford (DDP 2020). The ones who were already dead when picked are Algimantas Dailide & Leo Sharp (both DDP 2017 coincidentally). The curious thing about Sharp is that Clint fucking Eastwood directed and starred in movie based on his life the year after.

Yeah, pretty much, I guess. Here are their WSOP websites: https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=65091 https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=112037 Honestly, both didn't do very well, but the Ireland one had significant earnings outside of the WSOP. And online.

Norman Macfarlane, Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden, Scottish Development Agency Board member and patron of the arts and Queens Park Football Club, dead: https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19697394.scottish-business-doyen-lord-macfarlane-bearsden-dies/ Retired from the House of Lords in 2016.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10136539/The-serviceman-spent-34-years-Queens-Britannia.html The Royal yacht Britannias warrant officer who the Queen nicknamed Norrie has died aged 87.

In light of other news today I would like to remind our younger and non-British members that Bill Rodgers is a British Politician and not a summary of the Clinton Presidency

I just watched this clip from 60 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNrvXw9juNs&ab_channel=60Minutes Really quite emotional viewing. It is incredible to watch him turn into the performer he used to be as soon as the music starts or the curtain is raised. It is also touching to see him remember Lady Gaga's name when she walks on stage, and how much it means to her. But the bottom line for us is: although he is physically quite fit for a 95 year-old and his voice is incredible for someone that old, his Alzheimer's is more advanced than I thought.

Neither does Peter Falk

A commonly forgotten face of the 1950s and 1960s, Austrian film and stage actress Herta Staal, has died aged 91. https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/stars/id_90907454/herta-staal-91-schauspielerin-und-filmstar-der-1950er-und-1960er-ist-tot.html She was one of the last living actresses of the "technically silver but unprofessionally postcoloured" screen-era. She appeared in various shallow, kitschy, romantic Heimat-movies of the post-war period.

Watching an old episode of Give Us A Clue, I had no idea that Libby Morris was still with us and never seemingly mentioned on the forum before. She's going on 91. If A Talent For Loving and The Plank don't instantly get her a UK obit never mind her seemingly endless panel game shows, she might be a cracking choice for the Hartlepool DP (Celebrity Squares). IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606736/