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Too many smoked sau-sa-ges? (If you don't get this, you are probably under 45).

Here's also a photo from a couple of days ago of Ken Rosewall (88), Rod Laver (84), Neale Fraser (89) and Frank Sedgman (95) at the Australian Open. It would be hard to find another sport (apart from possibly Golf) where so many leading players make it into such advanced years in relatively decent health.

Well seeing as January is nearly over, I thought I'd mark your homework. "Don January (born November 20, 1929)" "Charles Peters (born December 22, 1926)" "Three individuals born in 1924" "An individual born in 1933 who just turned 90"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/29/frank-field-politics-poverty-belief-cancer-labour-interview Frank Field gives an interview and says its strange taking so long to die.

Zahawi’s letter to Sunak. He tells the story of him coming over here without knowing English. Decades later, it appears he still hasn’t learned how to say “I’m sorry”. Cunt.

Update on the 'Traitors' discourse - I tried watching it (the UK version) on catch-up, got about 10 minutes into the contestants' introductions and lost the will to live.

64 George Michael – Careless Whisper -6 63 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 61 Madonna – Into the Groove 40 Eurythmics – There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)  31 Duran Duran — The Reflex 28 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Relax 26 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover 24 Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) 13 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes 10 Feargal Sharkey — A Good Heart +4 (methinks I’m fighting a losing battle)

Sandalwood guy Mandeep Roy dead at 73.

Jillie Mack. I remember seeing her in an episode of "ER". And, if I remember correctly, she was a dancer, too. Good taste, @Gooseberry Crumble.

Katharine Ross, the stupendous American film, stage and television actress, probably remembered for her notable work in two of the most popular films of the 1960s: "The Graduate", and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", is 83 today. Tom Selleck, American film and television actor, one of the best-loved television actors of the 1980s, who started his acting career with small roles in TV shows, whose film debut came in 1970 in "Myra Breckinridge", the adaptation of the famed novel by Gore Vidal, and widely known for his first major role as private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television show "Magnum, P.I.", is 78 today. The role of Thomas Magnum was a blessing and a curse for Tom Selleck. The producers of "Magnum, P.I.", would not release Tom Selleck from his contract to appear in other projects, so he was forced to pass on the role of Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy celebrates his 68th birthday today. BAFTA winning British actor Will Poulter celebrates his 30th birthday today.

64 George Michael – Careless Whisper 63 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 61 Madonna – Into the Groove 40 Eurythmics – There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)  26 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Relax -6 26 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover 25 Duran Duran — The Reflex 24 Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) 17 Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes +4 10 Feargal Sharkey — A Good Heart Two Tribes is clearly a better track than Relax!

Phil Coles, Olympic rower for Australia in 1960, 1964, and 1968 dead at 91.

The Telegraph have found "new information" on Prince Andrew, with a front page that even The Daily Star would reject as being "a bit much":

prescient words indeed.

54 Blondie — Atomic 52 The Pretenders — Brass in Pocket -3 51 Blondie — Call Me +4 41 Soft Cell — Tainted Love 38 David Bowie — Ashes to Ashes 34 The Police — Don't Stand So Close to Me 27 The Specials — Ghost Town 20 The Human League — Don't You Want Me 18 The Jam — Going Underground / Dreams of Children 17 ABBA - The Winner Takes It All 12 The Specials — Too Much Too Young -3

On this day in 1959 italian american tenor and actor Mario Lanza died aged just 38 from a pulmonary embolism. A popular Hollywood star in the 1940s and 1950s. He started singing professionally age 16 and had a succesful career on stage singing in opera. He performed at the Hollywood bowl in 1947 ,impressed many and was signed up by Louis B Mayer to MGM on a 7 year contract. His first credited film was 'That midnight kiss' in 1949 with Kathryn Grayson and Ethel Barrymore . Other film credits include The Great Caruso (1951), The Toast of New Orleans (1950) and The Student Prince (1954) were he provides the dubbed on singing voice for Edmund Purdom who replaced Mario in the role after he was sacked by MGM.Accounts differ on whether he was sacked for putting on weight and mot being able to fit into his costume or whether it was because of a clash of ideas and personality in a strong series of disagreements. He could be quite passionate about creative artistic differences as well as maybe being a bit of a male diva! Serenade (1956) is another one of his more noted films alas with Warner Bros but his career post MGM never quite hit the same heights overall. For his final film role in 1959 film 'For the first time ' he needed to lose weight His overeating and long struggle with addiction to alcohol was taking its toll. He was put on something called the twilight sleep treatment for weight loss which required him to be immobile and lying down in bed most of the term. This unconventional treatment was doomed to fail and likely lead to the pulmonary embolism that killed him after months struggling with heart issues and pneumonia. His devastated wife committed suicide months after she was widowed.

He lives and is back home. He did not even have the decency to catch covid or mrsa. Brazil's Bolsonaro leaves hospital after treatment for blocked intestine - BBC News

Booooooo

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-bolsonaro-recovering-after-second-night-hospital-2021-07-16/ Improving and saying he'll be "back in action" soon... Knife didn't go deep enough

Marjorie Ritchie, part of the surgical team responsible for Dolly the sheep cloning, has died at 66. http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-marjorie-ritchie-animal-scientist-1-3742843

Updated for the newly elected President who will serve for two years. I cannot find any reference to his year of birth but I suspect he is contemporaty with Lesley Yellowtrees as he states he was an undergraduate in the early seventies.