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@John Key, forgive me for being a nightmare and repetitive. But I'm just trying to be honest with you and the other players. Leslie Phillips was my hit number 15 instead of number 16. Thank you for your work and once again I apologise for any inconvenience.

I sure love the red wave that everyone is so sure would happen

The Comedians was massive once over but it's strange that IMBD - normally a mecca for anorak who know their facts - doesn't post a birthdate for half the performers. Has anyone around the UK noticed the likes of Charlie Daze playing a local club? How many of this lot are still alive? Some of them will be well into their seventies now, late nights, loadsa fags and drink, stressful job. We could have us some future winners here.

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A couple of Halibut women from Leeds are looking through an old photograph album. 'Oh look,' says one, 'there's my son on his first day at school, and here he is in the school play, and here with his football team...' 'Ah the children,' says her friend, 'They blow up so fast these days.' C'mon guys, share a few rib ticklers with us.

Scottish actor Gerard Butler celebrates his 53rd birthday today. Star of films such as The Phantom of the Opera, 300, P.S I love you, Olympus has fallen and London has fallen. Also two professional divers and Olympians celebrate their birthdays today. Cambodian born American professional diver and olympian Jordan Windle turns 24 today. Professional German diver and olympian Lou Massenberg turns 22 today.

THE LADY VANISHES 18/50 11th October 2022 Much loved actress Angela Lansbury has died to give The Crowdsourced Deathlist another success. The granddaughter of Labour party giant George Lansbury, Angela was an early success as an actress, appearing as the maid in Gaslight when still a teenager. (She had claimed she was three years older than she was to get her start in theatre!) By the time she was twenty, she had been nominated for two Oscars, although it took her until 2013 to finally win an Honorary award from the Academy. In the 1950s, she didn't stop working, acting in theatre, radio, TV and film alike. Typecast in older roles from her 30s on by studio executives, Lansbury instead used this to propel her career to greater highs. First came The Manchurian Candidate, where she played a devious pro-Communist planning to overthrow the US government. This comes as one hell of a twist if you are used to cuddly old Angela Lansbury, everyone's TV gran, incidentally. Candidate earned her a third Oscar nomination, but she lost out to Patty Duke playing Helen Keller. Yes, folk were losing to Oscar bait material even then. In the 1970s, she starred in what many rightfully call a film far better than Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Miss Price, the trainee witch, takes on a family of evacuees during the Blitz, tangles with a cartoon lion king, and defeats a Nazi invasion. I must have watched that film about 500 times as a kid. Also in the 1970s, she convincingly played a drunk witness in the all-star cast Death on the Nile, the Peter Ustinov Agatha Christie film. Her love for Agatha Christie led to playing Jane Marple herself in The Mirror Crack'd, a surprisingly decent adaptation of one of Christie's later books. Lansbury may not have been Joan Hickson, but she proved herself well above the Julia McKenzie category. And that led to playing a Marple like figure on screen for twenty years. Created by the brains behind Columbo, Lansbury was so interested in playing a Marple like sleuth she took the role over a sitcom one offered, and Jessica Fletcher, crime novelist turned murderer finder, solved TV murders for years. While not exactly taxing dramas, no one watched Murder She Wrote for the whodunnit plots. They watched it to see Jessica Fletcher solve them with panache. Although I swear Cabot Cove had more deaths than Midsummer, Taggart's Maryhill and your average Dalek invasion combined. It would be remiss to mention Angela Lansbury without Beauty and the Beast, or Gypsy, or Sweeney Todd, or The King and I, or A Little Night Music. (Send in the Clowns, best musical song, or best musical song?) She was at home equally in Hamlet, Disney or TV melodrama. Her dexterity in talents put her among the best. The Academy eventually gave Angela Lansbury an honorary award in 2013. Lansbury also failed to win a BAFTA, and infamously was nominated for EIGHTEEN Emmys without a single win, by far the most in that category. It was theatre which rewarded her talents most. She won 5 Tony awards for her roles in musicals, and an honorary award for being a legend in old age. She won 6 Golden Globes, and perhaps more pertinently, the Olivier and Gershwin awards for theatre, which probably meant a lot more than an Oscar. (They gave Oscars to Three 6 Mafia but none to Peter O'Toole or Alfred Hitchcock, fact fans.) A devout socialist, Angela Lansbury used her fame to promote domestic abuse charities, and other charitable causes, and was an early supporter of AIDS sufferers in Hollywood. And, having been rejected as a leading lady in her youth, she went onto be a trailblazer across multiple media for actresses, musicals and the elderly. Angela Lansbury died shortly before her 97th birthday, and such was her strong health well into her 90s, that this is only her second appearance on the Crowdsourced Deathlist.

Yeah, as I remarked on his thread, it's incredibly sad. I think he's famous enough (performed with Journey, music producer, American Idol judge) that he should be added to the list. It would be a remarkable upset, unfortunately, if he's alive in 2024. Has to be a must-add to the '23 List.

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Russia is chaotically retreating from Cherson right now. It's apparently a bloodbath. Things are moving quickly again now after Ukraine built a lot of pressure over weeks and weeks.

Bill Treacher Main Deathlist 11+1 The Old Crem 9+1 jonnythegamemaster 11+1 @The Daredevil your third sub, would become valid if 3 people on your list died pre-2022 or were famous for only being old. Leslie Phillips Main Deathlist 12+1 arghton 3+1 six feet blunder 8+1 markb4 11+1 John Key 17+1 Theoldlady 17+1 wannamaker 14+1 The Old Crem 10+1 Dying Probably 5+1 Pop_Zeus 9+1 Hell 11+1 MariNisia 14+1 Annami 13+1 Redrumours 7+1 Death Duke 8+1 TQR 12+1 jonnythegamemaster 12+1 Nick 10+1 The Daredevil 13+1 Miranda lass 5+1 gcreptile 15+1 _floydylan_ 12+1 Book 20/50 John Key 18/50 Theoldlady 18/50 Salmon Mousse 16/50 gcreptile 16/50 MariNisia 16/50 wannamaker 14/50 Annami 14/50 The Daredevil 14/50 TQR 13/50 _floydylan_ 13/50 Main Deathlist 13/50 jonnythegamemaster 13/50 Hell 12/50 markb4 12/50 Nick 11/50 The Old Crem 11/50 Pop_Zeus 10/50 Death Duke 9/50 six feet blunder 9/50  Bibliogryphon 8/50 Redrumours 8/50 Doulton 7/50 earl 7/50 Etushispushingupdaisies 6/50 Dying Probably 6/50 Miranda lass 6/50 dimreaper 4/50 arghton 4/50 Gooseberry Crumble 3/50 DieHardGiantsFan 1/50

I still don't see how appearing hysterical and blocking the M25 will elicit any other response but contempt amongst the public.The activists seem to think that by disrupting people constantly they will eventually see their point of view whereas it seems to be pissing everyone off and making it easier for the government to crack down on protests. I say good on people for dragging them out of the road.The police won deal with the issue so about time the public did.Blocking a road using your own person is nuts dangerous irresponsible and selfish.Plus many of those protesting seem your usual hipster type who aren't even contributing to society unlike the nurse in the Whale interview he did a 12 hour shift then got stuck by the looney tunes for another 4 hours. She needs her sleep after saving lives unlike these jobsworths who are merely damaging their own cause through their own ego.If you turn the public against you they will NOT support you but will support the government to strop the fundamental rights of protests and ignore them.If I stopped everyone in my house going about their business when they tried to leave the house due to wanting to reduce their carbon emissions they would rightly xalk me a loon and get me arrested.Same should apply to this lot.They have no right to stop people earning money to survive or cancer patients getting treatment.Tjey almost have a messiah complex.

To make fun of Mr Sulu ?

Stopping ambulances or people getting to urgent appointments should be classed as manslaughter if they die from it.

Frankly, I don't care anymore. He's a bully, nothing more, nothing less. These votes are meaningless and unrepresentative but he doesn't care about that, he's just a little fascist, the latest in a long line who all end the same way. He's getting hammered on the battlefield so he's taken the coward's way out, despite declaring in March when he launched this tinpot invasion that absorbing Donetsk and Luhansk into Mother Russia was not on the agenda. So he's threatening nuclear armageddon? Big deal. He's threatened it before and he knows how it ends if he does, as do his ever diminishing band of snivelling cronies. If they're going to allow him to launch a nuclear attack, they're as bad as he is. I imagine in his desperate little head, this is his masterstroke. If Ukraine agree to peace terms on these borders, he has his longed for land bridge to Crimea. I'm hoping the opposite is true: now he's placed these areas of sovereign Ukraine on the same level as occupied Crimea, he's not got a leg to stand on. Ukraine will free Kherson, Zaporizhia, Luhansk and Donetsk and just carry straight on to Odessa and free Crimea while they're at it. The world is absolutely shit, but I do quite like living in it and I'd rather not live through a nuclear holocaust but if we let him get away with this like we did Crimea, next it will be Kiev, or Riga, or Vilnius. He has to be stopped, whatever the cost.

Well, the rules say the year of birth needs to be known to determine the points. Which has basically been done in a way that as long as we know how many points to award, then it's fine. We have had lots of people with only a known age of death, meaning the year of birth can be one out of two.

Yeah that works for me now but my entry is already in because I got it from the e-mail

Tunisian President Essebsi dead after rushed to hospital: https://www.letelegramme.fr/monde/tunisie-le-president-beji-caid-essebsi-de-nouveau-hospitalise-25-07-2019-12347069.php

English actress Rebecca Mader, well known from ABC-series "Lost" and "Once upon a time" died on suicide, that was written in wiki and now deleted. probably a hoax or still no confirmation ?!

BBC-Obituary https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48648278

He is dead at 96 years, another one big miss in official DL. RIP to a cultural genius, my 7th hit. https://www.lanazione.it/firenze/cronaca/morto-franco-zeffirelli-1.4647533

Thank you Grande Pablo - this is very useful real intelligence. I will not ask why you were hanging round the stage door of the Theatre in Lichfield.

Already posted about 7 posts above yours on 24th August. Also not really necessary to post it in the dead of 2012 as well. Everybody else does it. Why can't I ?

Tommy Chong has been diagnosed with "very slow" Stage I Prostate cancer. He also says he stopped smoking weed last year due to "health reasons."

The only reason I'd heard of the late Emmy-winning screenwriter/producer/director Hal Kanter was because he'd been pencilled into my 2012 DDP theme team. Step up to the plate, Christopher Challis.