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I had a weird dream last night and I wasn't even drunk. So it starts like this, after the Queen died and Charles is made king, the Queen's ghost suddenly arrives at my house grabs me and takes me some random realm where I see the Queen is no longer a ghost and in that realm I also meet Phil Taylor from Motorhead, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alfred Hitchcock, actress Eva Gabor, race car driver Roy Salvadori and one another woman who I couldn't recognize and I tell them about the DeathList. Then Phil Taylor tells me that it will be Jean-Luc Godard who dies next but Gabor, Salvadori, the unnamed woman and Ginsburg tell me Ted Kaczynski will die next while Hitchcock goes with Marianne Faithfull. I think we all then talk for a bit before the Queen tells me "One more thing I must tell you, Coldplay's Chris Martin is the actual king of England." before the dream ended.

If she had real dedication to her craft she'd be lying down very still from now on

Seems worth a crosspost: Marsha Hunt dead at 104.

Yes, I'm sure the rest of the family would have been there sooner if it was known that she was so near death. Perhaps we'll be told more in due course. Meanwhile - I'm sure this has been posted before but it never gets old.

B. B. Lal dead at 101.

A follow up of the 5 year endurance test of the 1910_1936 Georgian deadpool that finished on Friday with the sad demise of her majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The premise: Post 50 names of celebrities or notable people that you believe will see Prince William ascend to the throne.Celebrities must have been born during the reign of King George VI as King Charles III was.The aim is to have as many of your picks still alive when King Charles III passes away.In the unlikely event King Charles abdicated the game will still continue until his demise. A reminder picks must all be born between 11th December 1936 and 6th February 1952 (including these dates themselves) Players can pick names already on someone else's list. Person with the highest score when Charles III passes away wins. The game is live as of now but nominations can be posted here by next Sunday 18th September 2022 at 23:59 GMT . In the event all players are down to zero then all players have form another other team of 50 for second round.In the event of a tie it goes to sudden death I.e first person to lose someone on their list loses. My picks: 1)Michael Keaton 2)Gordon Brown 3)Kevin Whately 4)Peter Davison 5) Peter Hitchens 6) Peter Tatchell 7)Jeremy Corbyn 8)Helen Worth 9)Louise Jameson 10)Peter Gabriel 11)Nigel Havers 12)Harriet Harman MP 13)Jane Seymour 14)James Mattis 15)Brian May 16)Alan Johnson ( Former MP) 17) Bruce Springsteen 18)Susan George 19)Twiggy 20)Lalla Ward 21)Elizabeth Warren 22)Zoe Wannamaker 23)Peter Shilton 24)John Bowe 25)Jon Trickett MP 26)Lord Nicholas True 27)Sir Simon Hughes 28)David Davis MP 29)John Redwood MP 30) A C Grayling 31)Paula Wilcox 32)Robert Lindsay 33) Jonathan Sumption , Lord Sumption 34)Caitlyn Jenner 35) Bill O'Reilly 36)David Mellor 37)Kirstie Alley 38)Victoria Principal 39)Patrick Duffy 40)Sherrie Hewson 41)Michael Kitchen 42)Jackie Jackson (Jackson 5) 43)Anjelica Huston 44) Mark Spitz 45)Michael Fabricant MP 46)Graham Seed 47)Jeanine Pirro 48) Sue Holderness 49)John F Kelly 50)Dr Ben Carson

I bet they can't bee-leive it

The venerable Earl of Airlie was on Radio 4 just now, talking about the Queen and - although lucid - sounded like he might die of old age during the interview. One to keep under observation. The last surviving attendee of the coronation of George VI apparently.

As reported elsewhere, Marsha Hunt has died. Picked by a few in here

Marsha Hunt dead at 104.

This is a very underrated point. At this point in 1922 do you think people knew anything about landing on the moon, the Holocaust, or even something like Disney World? Saying a death in 2022 is the biggest when we have 70+ years left seems short sighted. I'd argue the majority of people alive in 2099 will have had a different monarch for most of their life by that point. Doubt it seems a big deal @Joltin Joe worded it well.

Honest answer, no. And look at how fast pro-royalist critics (I don't mean republicans) of Charles are u-turning opinions for a reason why. The show goes on. (Also after one big change there usually isn't the appetite for another big one for a while.)

I found this website (thanks to the Depths of Wikipedia Twitter) that shows how many views any Wikipedia page gets in a day. Data begins with July 2015, so here is how many views each DeathList hit since then has got when their death was announced. Accurate as of July 18, 2024

She's pretty clearly the biggest death so far this century. There is still plenty of time left and for all we know the most significant death of the 21st century could end up being someone not even born yet.

As some have said, it’s still odd to read ‘King Charles III’. Maybe the subheading of this thread should be ‘The artist formerly known as Prince’?

70 years, 214 days until he breaks the record for longest reigning British monarch…

Tina Ramirez, the founder of the Ballet Hispanico, the most popular Hispanic dance company in the US, died at 92 years: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/09/arts/dance/tina-ramirez-dead.html

Marsha Hunt is a hit here in the Star Trek category but not a game ending one nor a unique one Will update shortly

Bo Goldman, the prestigious American playwright and screenwriter who won an Oscar for co-writing the screenplay for the critically acclaimed film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and a second, this time for the cult film "Melvin and Howard", is 90 today. Goldman is not related to William Goldman, the screenwriter of "All the President's Men" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". Amy Irving, American film, stage and television actress, the daughter of theatrical director and producer Jules Irving and character actress Priscilla Pointer, who made her film debut at 22 in the horror classic "Carrie", is 69 today. She supplied the singing voice for Jessica Rabbit in the animated film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".

On this day in 2007 Oscar winning american actress and first wife of future US President Ronald Reagan Jane Wyman died aged 90. Jane starred in more than a dozen films in the 1930s in uncredited roles . In 1937 she received her first credited role playing the hat check girl in Smart Blonde. This quickly lead to other film roles including Slim (1937) starring Pat O'Brien and Henry Fonda, The Spy ring(1938) with William Hall, Esther Ralston and Robert Warwick, 1939 aviation film Tail Spin with Alice Faye, Constance Bennett and Joan Davis and Magictown - a 1947 comedy with James Stewart. Her most successful films critically arguably were Magnificent Obsession (1954) for which Jane was nominated for a best actress Oscar but lost out to Grace Kelly who won for The Country girl, the much praised film adaptation of Tennesse Williams play The Glass menagerie and undoubtedly best of all Johnny Belinda (1948) for which she won the best actress Oscar. The film was considered controversial at the time because it was about the horror of rape, something that the motion picture production code had previously banned and it is widely accepted that Johnny Belinda was the first film for which this rule was relaxed. Jane also had success on television many small or one off roles but she did host her own show for three years (1955-1958) Jane Wyman presents but her best known work on tv is playing tough , ruthless wealthy matriarch Angela Channing in US Primetime soap Falcon Crest gor 8 years. It was set amongst the wealthy vineyard owning families of California as opposed to the more popular Dallas and Dynasty set among super wealthy Oil owning families. I personally feel that hee character Angela Channing was the most nuanced least pantomine like of the villainous 'baddies' out of the 4 big US primetime soaps of the 1980s- Dallas, Dynasty, Knots Landing and Falcon Crest .JR Ewing, Alexis Colby and Abbey Ewing were all brilliant characters and I ain't shading 'panto villians' or pantomime and their entertainment value but Angela Channing felt the most real and layered of them all. No doubt Janes great acting abilities are part of the explanation for that. In her personal life she was Ronald Reagans first wife but he was her third husband. She previously married Ernest Wyman whose surname she kept professionally for the rest of her life, then after divorcing she married Myron Futterman. The marriage faltered after three months because she wanted children and he didn't. Third her marriage to Ronald Reagan which resulted in three children. Maureen who predeceased both her parents dying of cancer in 2001, Michael Reagan who they adopted (he now wirks in talk radio in the US as a sort of right wing political shock jock)and Christine Reagan who sadly died one day old in 1947 after being born prematurely. Finally she married Hollywood music director Frederick Karger in 1952 ,divorced after 2 years and remarried him in 1961 but called time on the marriage in 1965. Of her numerous failed marriages Jane said " I guess I just don't have a talent for it,some women just aren't the marrying kind- or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and Im one of them". By the time she died she had converted to catholicism and was a member of the Dominican order as a lay member and thus was buried in a nuns habit.

American actor Ryan Phillippe, star of movies such as Cruel Intentions(1999), Crimson Tide (1995) Gosforth Park (2001), Oscar winning film Crash (2004), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) and MacGruber (2010) to latter success in television with parts in shows like Big Sky and Damages- celebrates his 48th birthday today. British film director Guy Ritchie celebrates turning 54 today. He has directed films such as Lock, stock and two smoking barrels, Snatch and The man from U.N.C.L.E with Henry Cavill in the lead role.

Dave Smith, former player for Burnley and Brighton And Hove Albion and manager of Southend, Plymouth Argyle, his home team of Dundee, and Torquay, reportedly dead aged 88:

That doesn't appear to have sparked the outrage maybe they were expecting/hoping for.

I thought Charles' speech was outstanding. We so rarely get that kind of eloquence here in the U.S.