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Luigi De Magistris dead at 95.

Pheung Kya-shin, chairman of Myanmar's Kokang special region, longtime Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army commander in chief dead at something between 91 and 94: https://news.ifeng.com/c/8Dg7etK6j2T He established a heroin factory in the region in the 1970s, later legalized opium planting and was involved in drug trafficking for around 30 years until making the region "drug free" (or not, according to narcotics experts) His region and army had two major clashes with Myanmar's army, in 2009 and in 2015.

Bappi Lahiri, "legendary" film composer and singer known for wearing gold chains, dies at 69 from COVID: https://www.businesstoday.in/trending/entertainment/story/bappi-lahiri-passes-away-at-69-in-mumbai-hospital-322733-2022-02-16 I immediately recognized the name from my own past Cup searches. He must have been in poor health for a while.

Why not pick a surviving Columbo killer? Lee Grant (b. 1925), Ransom for a Dead Man (1971) Susan Clark (b. 1943) Lady in Waiting (1971) Vera Miles (b. 1929) - Lovely but Lethal (1973) Dick van Dyke (b. 1925) - Negative Reaction (1974) George Hamilton (b. 1939) - A Deadly State of Mind (1975) - the one with the evil Doctor who uses hypnotism to kill, Caution Murder Can Be Hazardous to your Health (1991) Hector Elizondo (b. 1936) - A Case of Immunity (1975) William Shatner (b. 1931) - Fade in to Murder (1976), Butterfly in Shades of Grey (1995) Joyce van Patten (b. 1934) - Old Fashioned Murder (1976) Trish Van Devere (b. 1941) - Make Me A Perfect Murder (1978) Clive Revill (b. 1930) - The Conspirators (1978) Tbh I mistook Revill for Davis above hence this. This far and no further? Anthony Andrews (b. 1948) - Columbo Goes to the Guillotine (1989) Fisher Stevens (b. 1963) - Murder, Smoke and Shadows (1989) Lindsay Crouse (b. 1948) - Sex and the Married Detective (1989) Robert Foxworth (b. 1941) - Grand Deceptions (1989) Patrick Bachau (b. 1938) - Murder A Self Portrait (1990) Ian Buchanan (b. 1957) - Columbo Cries Wolf (1990) Helen Shaver (b. 1951) - Rest in Peace, Mrs Columbo (1990) James Read (b. 1953) - Uneasy Lies the Crown (1990) Andrew Stevens (b. 1955) - Murder in Malibu (1990) Gary Hershberger (b. 1964) - Columbo Goes to College (1991) Stephen Caffrey (b. 1959) - Columbo Goes to College (1991) Dabney Coleman (b. 1932) - Murder of a Rock Star (1991) Tyne Daly (b. 1946) - A Bird in the Hand (1992) Greg Evignan (b. 1953) - A Bird in the Hand (1992) Faye Dunaway (b. 1941) - Its All in the Game (1993) Claudia Christian (b. 1965) - Its All in the Game (1993) Ed Begley Jr (1949) - Undercover (1994) George Wendt (b. 1948) - Strange Bedfellows (1995) Shera Danese (b. 1949) - A Trace of Murder (1997) - Peter Falk's widow David Rasche (b. 1944) - A Trace of Murder (1997) Billy Connolly (b. 1942) - Murder with Too Many Notes (2001) Matthew Rhys (b. 1974) - Columbo Likes the Nightlife (2003) Jennifer Sky (b. 1976) - Columbo Likes the Nightlife (2003) Someone else did this list years ago but it appears to have been deleted, for shame. Anyhow, most of the best Columbo villains have joined Falk on the other side, including Patrick McGoohan, Jack Cassidy, Theodore Bikel, etc. Of the living classic era killers, Shatner's probably the best, though Van Devere's 4 minute murder getaway is still an engaging bit of TV - even if it wouldn't work today. Just one more thing - Bob Dishy who appeared twice as overeager Sgt Wilson is still alive and just turned 88. Also, while Playback's killer died decades ago, his put upon wife, Gena Rowlands (b. 1930) is likewise still with us.

Kristofferson looked and sounded awful when he played Glastonbury a few years ago. I'm surprised he's still here.

Yes. I have noticed his silence, too. Could be COVID, maybe he has a co-morbidity. Or well, could be his age and inevitably worsening health.

Not as great a precedent as it sounds - Waylon Jennings pretty much retired a few years before he died due to his health, but Johnny Cash was still performing and recording pretty much up to his final hospitalisation!

When you say 'over', what exactly do you you mean?

You would need to smoke a joint, or 10, to sit through that Super Bowl shite.

DL pick No. 8 June Brown celebrates her 95th birthday today

I have now managed to find some replacements (this is getting hard to find for some years) Ruth Bidgood replaced by Joan Langdon Gloria Whelan replaced by Jill Knight Estell Harris replaced by Queen Ratna of Nepal

You wile away a couple of mins a day on Wordle, don’t you? And it’s piss easy. How about trying Worldle? Guess the country.

American production designer, writer and director Alfred Sole (Wiki) dead at 78. He was known for his work directing Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)

1960s rock drummer Sandy Nelson dead at 83

Damn, he's running out of time to finish that book he started writing 20 years ago that required him to download all the cheese pizza.

Looking through the list of weekly winners, there are no sports players represented; Sports journalists on the other hand, fare rather better, with Chris Hollins, Colin Murray & Mark Chapman all amongst the weekly winners.

Yeah, I'd say the John Promfumo route (quietly spending the rest of his life doing good charitable work helping others) would be beyond his skillset. They could try a comeback on the panel game circuit - his appearance on Would I Lie to You might be interesting.

Chennaveera Kanavi dead at 93: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/chennaveera-kanavi-7776304/

Another one from my team is down: drummer Sandy Nelson dead. This is actually a painful hit as the timing of it completely screws me in every death pool on this side of the pond.

Bollywood singer and composer, Bappi Lahiri, has passed away at the age of 69. (For some reason, the link won't paste.)

Obituary for Keston. Cause of death given as COVID-19. He was vaccinated (before drol asks). Also mentions he was a WWII vet, serving in the RAF.

Geraldo de Jesus has died according to his niece on Facebook.

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Emanuel Marx (wiki), Israeli anthropologist, reportedly dead at 94.

By chance, I caught a 1976 episode of George And Mildred this morning. It's the one where Mildred finds out George isn't insured for his death - bitter sweet, as there's lines in it in which Mildred makes it quite clear that George is going to die first. Anyhow, of interest, Brian Murphy gave an interview a couple of weeks ago: https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/brian_murphy/interview/brian-murphy-on-george-mildred/ Sheila Fearn I think is the next oldest regular cast member still alive - 81 this year. What surprised me was that Peter Frazer-Jones is apparently still going - so many comedy show credits it's painful to pick out any one - he's about to turn 91, unless he has died off radar.