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Michael Cunningham, the remarkable American novelist and screenwriter who is best known for his novel "The Hours", who was a New York Times bestseller, and the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize, is 70 today. Emma Stone, American actress best known for her work in films, such as "Zombieland", "Easy A", "The Help", "The Amazing Spider-Man", "Birdman", "Battle of the Sexes", "The Favourite" and "Cruella", is 34 today. Emma Stone, known for her red hair and wide eyes, won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for her notable portrayal of a struggling actress in the musical comedy-drama film "La La Land".

American actor Ethan Hawke celebrates his 52nd birthday today.

Sounds like he is a suicide risk then?

Paul ‘haven’t heard of them’ Bearer, you were your dad before you were born.

Wonder if that you tuber is an undertaker in real life and wants to kill off and bury all 8 billion people on the planet on the same day

She also has been confined to a wheelchair for many years.I believe that was due to physical problems.Good shout as she has had dementia for years which had already progressed to the point where she was unaware of the Kavanaugh hearings in 2018.

Youtube has loads of those fake accounts that frequently post shite like that to get views. There's one news account that has killed Willie Nelson around three or four times this year and five months ago it posted a video called "We Have Extremely Sad News For 89-year old Singer Willie Nelson As he Is Confirmed To Be" that got 276 thousand views. During the last week that same account has killed Pam Dawber, Jason Alexander, Ron Howard, Priscilla Presley, Dwayne Johnson (who "died at the age of 89"), Michael J. Fox (twice!), Paul Newman (a bit late?), Jimmy Page, Rod Stewart and a plethora of random US celebs, claimed that Lindsey Buckingham is dying and that Tina Turner has "days to live" and for example said that Meryl Streep is now homeless.

Didn’t know Clint Eastwood has died

I have a feeling there used to be a thread for this, but it seems to have been decommissioned. So, here are the currently-still-breathing-and-over-85 (subject to wiki accuracy, of course) Nobel Prize laureates, all handily wiki-linked. Not household names, I grant you, but probably obit-worthy for the more discerning ‘pooler all the same. Many have been discussed in other threads, but I thought it’d be nice to drag them in under one umbrella. I’ve probably missed one or two; I’m not the most diligent of researchers. Physics: when will they quark it? Willis Lamb (Canadian Paul‘s very own CL-S), 94. Chen Ning Yang, 85. Charles Townes, 92. Aage Bohr (son of Nils), 85. Nicolaas Bloembergen, 87. Leon Lederman, 85. Jack Steinberger, 86. Norman Ramsey, 91. Hans Dehmelt, 85. Chemistry: soon to be inert? Frederick Sanger, 89. John Cornforth, 90. William Lipscomb, 87. Herbert Hauptman, 90. Jerome Karle, 89. Paul Boyer, 89. Jens Skou, 89. William Knowles, 90. John Fenn, 90. Literature: the final chapter? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89. (7-time DL laureate i.e. someone you‘ve heard of) Jose Saramago, 85. Doris Lessing, 88. Only three, but they often receive it later in life, for a body of work. Peace: RIP? (hell, this stuff writes itself) Norman Borlaug, 93. Nelson Mandela, 89. Not many, as it’s often given to organisations or not given at all. That paragon of peace Kissinger doesn’t turn 85 till May. Medicine: Nurse, the screens!! Thomas Weller, 92. Andrew Huxley (Aldous‘s half-brother), 90. Francois Jacob, 87. Har Khorana, 86. Christian de Duve, 90. George Palade, 95. Rita Levi-Montalcini, 98 (oldest living laureate ) Renato Dulbecco, 93. Rosalyn Yalow, 86. Jean Dausset, 91. Robert Furchgott, 91. Edwin Krebs, 89. Joseph Murray, 87. Baruj Benacerraf, 87. Don Thomas, 87. Edmond Fischer, 87. Quite apt that the docs have the most living OAPS. Also, lots more of them, as they seem to work in teams more than other scientists. Economics: cashing their final cheque? Ronald Coase, 97. Maurice Allais, 96. Paul Samuelson, 92. Ken Arrow, 86. Larry Klein, 87. James Buchanan, 88. Douglass North, 87. Leo Hurwicz, 90. Tom Schelling, 86. (Acknowledgements: the lost Magere Hein for this and the equally disappeared Life Begins at 5 for this.)

I can’t find mention elsewhere here, but Germaine Greer returned to Australia and put herself into aged care last year. Article is behind a paywall, but headline confirms https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/germaine-greers-life-as-an-agedcare-inmate/news-story/d8072017b7701420a65b498d275dd357?amp A thought for the future …

Doris Grumbach dead at 104.

On further inspection, the same channel has killed off Gladys Knight and Celine Dion in the past few hours. So 100% a hoax.

Frank Field not dead, writes briefly for the Times about Rishi Sunak. He says absolutely nothing about his health before anyone asks.

4 teams in already in the very early going - and around 150 celebs in those teams. Well, I think some of them are celebs!

On this day two years ago in 2020, australian actress Joy Westmore, best known for playing prison warden Officer Joyce Barry in cult aussie tv soap Prisoner Cell Block H, died aged 88. On this day 35 years ago in 1987, Irish radio and television presenter Eamonn Andrews died aged 64. He was primarily employed in the UK and probably his biggest claim to fame was presenting hit tv show This is your life were surprised celebrities were reunited on television with family, friends and colleagues in a life tribute.

Also wife of Disney animator, Marc Davis

Screenwriter Douglas McGrath, who is best known for penning the 1996 film, Emma, died at 64 years: https://deadline.com/2022/11/douglas-mcgrath-dead-emma-beautiful-the-carole-king-musical-bullets-over-broadway-1235163639/ He received an Oscar nomination for his film, Bullets Over Broadway.

Deathrace Form Guide #17 Kat Bjelland Deleting last year's entries from my PMs has thrown the Babes in Toyland singer/songwriter/force of nature back in my face. Popuiar pick twelve months back. Discussions of her well-being offered up about as much energy as one of her band's typically rapid and rabid rants. Her health problems have been largely mental, but also largely on a large scale and for the sake of clarity I'll state here and now that however many personalities she's packing, if she scores Deathrace points I'm only awarding ONE score! Due to turn 60 in December.

Lawson has looked like an unexpected boo would finish him off for years now. Though given he was meant to be quite badly ill with cancer about a decade ago (never did find out what type of cancer) he's done well to make it this far. As has Dennis Skinner tbh - the hushed tones from Labour folk who knew during the 2019 election made it sound like 3 months was a tall order, let alone 3 years.

Jerry Lee Lewis (1935-2022) "Great Balls of Fire!" (What Jerry is likely seeing now) Age at death: 87 Known health issues: Massive drug addict, looked dead since the 80s. Internal hemorrhage in 1981, ulcer in 1985, major stroke in 2019. Cause of death: Pneumonia Alignment: He was not a cunt. He was quite the cunt. Noted for marrying his 12 year old cousin, having countless sons and having very likely contributed to the death of two of his wives. Also noted for calling fellow cunt Chuck Berry with the n-word after setting the piano on fire.

Actual pics from his mourning ceremony. His son George recounts last words of his father. And then there is also a pic with Jimmy Carter while he is picking his nose

Prunella Scales for me.

Hopefully this'll be a launchpad for more direct action. I don't even smoke weed and I want it legalised. I've often wondered if I were to write petition to ban smoking of anything (cigs, weed, banana skins) would raise more signatures than those wanting cans of bis legalised. Does smoking banana skims actually work?

Oh right, then do enlighten me, honey.