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Leo Fong (Wiki) - Chinese-born American actor dead at 93. He was also a martial artist, boxer and Methodist minister, know for his work on films like Low Blow, Killpoint, Blood Street, Enforcer from death row etc. A good friend also of Bruce Lee. RIP (1928 - 2022)

One of the best episodes in some time this week. Beryl Vertue, who obviously had a legendary and important career. Flavio Carboni, an Italian fixxer for the Vatican, politicians and Mafia alike who had the misfortune of continually being linked to mysterious murders. Phil Harvey, who took on the Republican Party for the right to sell safe sex equipment for profit in the third world. And forum favourite Lata Mangeshkar, who was apparently a massive George Harrison fangirl as well as being India's answer to Marni Nixon. The best bits were either the revelation that Mangeshkar had an addiction to Las Vegas slot machines, or the journalist who, during a court case in which Carboni was an actual suspect in a bankers death, willingly took lifts home from the man until the day a witness's story made Carboni's hypothetical involvement in the case a bit too realistic for the guys liking!

NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOoooooooo! Not Henny. (Sarcasm in case you didn't realise)

More importantly, she wasn't an Uruguayan-born German actress. She was a German-born Uruguayan actress. I think @gcreptile will be much happier now.

Napoleon Dynamite is a bit of a favourite round these parts. Dale Critchlow who played the farmer Lyle (quite by chance) has died aged 92: https://www.eastidahonews.com/2022/02/napoleon-dynamite-actor-from-preston-dies-at-92/ RIP.

Obituary for character actress Mitzi Rogers who has died aged 81: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/18/mitzi-davies-obituary Another from that Why Didn't They Ask Evans? 1980 adaptation (I think that's three in the last year) she played Jenny Sutton, a character who married Dennis Tanner in Coronation Street, a couple of appearances in very early The Avengers and various other supporting roles. A well known face. RIP, darling.

This twat continues to be a twat though

Eunice/God clearly has good taste - today's Simply Red concert in the 02 has been cancelled.

I'm feeling very peaceful and optimistic (thank you Michigan legalising things) so this is what I imagine the next DL Con vibe would be as opposed to the all-out brawl you'd normally expect.

Got a pacemaker due to a heart disease at 103 and has had two battery replacement surgeries, in 2015 and 2021. Oldest person living, maybe the oldest person ever with a pacemaker? Taka Tsuji and Emilio Flores Marquez had one but both died at 113.

Yep, here’s a QO

You have very thick skin I see.

Gabrielle Giffords now hospitalised for appendicitis: https://www.wptv.com/news/national-politics/former-congresswoman-gabby-giffords-hospitalized-with-appendicitis

Would Chaim Kanievsky be worthy of becoming an immortal? Old friend of Dovid, ultraorthodox rabbi, now 94 and with many health troubles in as Drol mentioned over a year ago: He hasn't left his house much during the last years, overweight, apparently senile and doesn't know who the prime minister of his country is, nearly deaf and survived covid in 2020 when he was reported to be in "worsening" and "deteriorating" condition by the Israeli press. But despite all of this he's now doing pretty well. He's also been one of the most ghoul-looking people alive for the last decade: I have no idea what's happening in the second picture. Looks like he's examining a pair of limes but shows how large he is. And the three other names I'll put here, they have some potential: Dagny Carlsson (1912-2022) Hospitalised multiple times, most recently in January 2022, has survived multiple bouts of pneumonia after 105. Satya Mohan Joshi Pneumonia, UTI, pulmonary edema and gastritis in 2014, pneumonia and heart issues in 2021, pneumonia and UTI in 2022. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee "Young", but he's looked like a corpse for yeara, suffering from COPD for ages and also has lung and heart diseases. Hospitalised in 2019 on BIPAP support with breathing problems and high bp, hospitalised in "very critical" condition and put on ventilator in December 2020 with serious breathing problems and lacunar infarcts, survived being in ICU with covid in May 2021.

Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside, former Labour MP for Aberdeen North and anti-devolutionist voter that essentially among other reasons led to the no confidence vote in the Callaghan government, reportedly dead at 90:

They both sang at Live Aid and at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992.

Death Notice for Eric Cockeram, former Tory MP for Bebington and then Ludlow, aged 97, a Christmas Day fatality: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/254333/cockeram Another Tory naughty boy - was it insider trading? Hmmm... Anyway, another @msc was keeping an eye out for. Not a DDP Pick this year.

Johnny Isakson being reported dead. Link is GDPR so no chance of reading it by me. Pool pick in many places, including the DDP.

Ty Templeton, six years after his heavy heart attack, now diagnosed with colon cancer: https://www.cbr.com/ty-templeton-batman-adventures-artist-cancer-diagnosis/

And other co-creator Ken Spears dead: https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/ken-spears-dead-scooby-doo-co-creator-1234825813/ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0817366/

Quino, creator of the "Mafalda" comics, that I distinctly remember from the late 80s/early 90s in my weekly TV magazine, dead at 88: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54362413

Disney animator Sue Maciorowski, who worked on the classical 90s movies, like The Lion King, Aladdin and such, dead at 55: https://www.cbr.com/disney-animation-artist-sue-nichols-maciorowski-died/

Co-creator of Scooby-Doo and Dynomutt Dog Wonder, Joe Ruby reportedly dead aged 87: https://www.animationscoop.com/joe-ruby-1933-2020/ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748445/

Report of the death of Andrew Christine, creator of the Beau Peep and A Man Called Horace cartoon strips: