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The Official Entry period is now closed and the masterlist on page 1 is the definitive article. Late entries are permitted but no duplicate picks are allowed. You may be better off waiting for Round IV. With a much higher number of players it is possible this will be a shorter game Leslie Phillips is picked by 4 teams and there are a number of picks who are on two teams but it is a wide field and some interesting choices Thank you all for playing

Con Sullivan dead:

Sonny Caldinez has sssssadly passssssed away

Letizia Battaglia, photographer who captured 20th century Sicily and - most importantly - the impact the Mafia had on it, dead at 87. Was still exhibiting last month so it must have been something pretty sudden. The documentary about her, Shooting the Mafia, is a good watch if you have a few hours:

American actress Joan Darling (Wiki) is 87 today

And there is a catch in his argument. Nobody would dispute that natural immunity is better than vaccine-induced immunity, but you have to survive the disease in order to benefit from it.

Why do you persist with this? You haven't persuaded a single person to your point of view and are still the only one here who gives any of this any credence whatsoever (if there are others they are remaining steadfastly silent on the issue), so what exactly is the aim of repeatedly posting variations on this theme beyond ratcheting up a record number of facepalm emotes?

Dianne Feinstein's colleagues now all regard her as "mentally unfit to serve": https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php Could be expected, I guess, that it's quickly downhill after her husband's death.

American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement Rachel Carson died on this day 58 years ago, aged 56. American fraudster and financier who ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth about $64.8 billion Bernie Madoff died on this day a year ago, aged 82.

American singer-songwriter who was listed in deathlist Loretta Lynn is 90 today

Queen not expected to attend Easter Sunday service

Singer and actor Burl Ives died on this day 27 years ago, aged 85. Ives is probably best remembered for being the narrator (as the character of Sam the Snowman) of the 1964 Christmas classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and sang several songs for the TV movie. Ives was also the base for the Ren and Stimpy character Stinky Wizzleteats, who is referred to as "Burl Ives" in the episode "Stimpy's Invention"'s script. Several of Ives' quotes can be heard in this song from the show:

British actress Julie Christie is 82 today

Ah, the one he dumped for a bit of skirt half his age, who then fucked Kieran Fallon in the shower, which made Henry sad and mad, before he got cancer and kicked the bucket. All very Jilly Cooper.

In other news: Russian oligarch in exile Nevzlin claims Shoigu is either disabled or a dead man walking after a major heart attack that has left him hooked up to a million machines. To no one's surprise, the heart attack was reportedly not a natural occurrence

The Moskva was the ship of "Russian warship go fuck yourself" fame This happened either day of or day after (depending on your time zone) Ukrainian postal services officially released the Russian warship go fuck yourself stamp. Ah, I love the smell of trolling in the morning.

you are correct at 2281 will ammend the error

"a fatal cardiac arrhythmia secondary to severe coronary atherosclerosis" do you work for deadline or something?

Tweet reporting the death of American historian Charles P. Roland (wiki), at the age of 104.

Belatedly watched Coda (a film but streamed so on telly). Enjoyed it without feeling that I was immersed in a creation of oscar-winning greatness. Fundamentally a quality sunday afternoon family film with a predictable feelgood ending. I guess the disabled family overcoming adversity to triumph trope ticked a few of the right boxes. Currently watching Severance. It's OK but 5 episodes in the big questions that arose early in episode 1 (principally 'what the hell is going on?') still haven't been asnwered. I see it's just been renewed for a second season. If I'm still in the dark at the end of season 1 I won't come back for seconds. More prosaically, quite enjoyed the new Lee Mack quiz on saturday, mainly because of him. Given that the eventual winner had been featured several times in preceding rounds before she got to the final against 2 people who we hadn't seen before, it was pretty obvious who was going to win though.

Watched both seasons of The Mandalorian from my sickbed within two days. I've never seen any show being so good at what it does without anything that makes it truly "great". So well-produced, polished, slick, but also a bit repetitive - as I watched episode after episode. Season 1 is fresher, but Season 2 is just "Season one - part two". In the post-main event spin-off world I think I actually prefer the clunkier, but fresher Picard, just to add to the eternal Star Wars vs Star Trek debate. The death of cinema and rise of streaming has been surprisingly good for the latter.

Picture of Kane Tanaka (from last month?), posted on the twitter account tanakakane0102 by her family today: Apparently she's been in and out of hospital recently with fever ("hospitalised and discharged repeatedly") and isn't currently in good condition but has a good appetite, "eats chocolate and drinks Coca-Cola and Oronamin C".

He has just Been found guilty. Nit sure when sentencing is or if he will resign before then.

Call me old-fashioned, but splitting up prose into short lines doesn't make it a poem. If it sounds like prose when you read it out, then it's prose.