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Walter Mirisch dead at 101.

Nice to have met you. Good bye.

Congratulations, @arghton!  1923 Yuriko, Princess Mikasa / Bob Barker 1924 Joyce Randolph / Sheldon Harnick 1925 Ruth Slenczynska / Marv Levy 1926 Gudrun Ure / Lawrence Turman 1927 Barbara Rush / Harry Belafonte 1928 Line Renaud / Zhu Rongji 1929 Joan Plowright / Don January 1930 Sandra Day O'Connor / Thomas Patten Stafford 1931 Alice Munro / Willie Mays 1932 Elaine May / Joseph Zen

Well, Palin was visiting him. Terry wasn't very communicative by then. Willis is likely around 2018 on the Jones timetable. He'll be a good pick next year (as Terry only just saw 2020).

Kids and grandkids by his side: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/02/24/us/jimmy-carter-family-members-hospice-care/index.html

Heartwarming saga of Welsh matriarch: Supermam Story about a sensitive man who spends his time in paddocks, weeping: The Horse Whimperer That well known Coen brothers epic about lost car keys: Oh Bother, Where Art Thou?

Crossposting: Walter Mirisch dead at 101.

36 Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love 33 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 26 Madonna – Into The Groove 24 Blondie – Atomic 21 Men at Work – Down Under 21 David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes 20 The Specials – Ghost Town 19 George Michael – Careless Whisper 18 Soft Cell – Tainted Love 15 A-ha – The Sun Always Shines On TV +4 12 Madonna – Like a Prayer -6 7 Madness – House of Fun 7 Pet Shop Boys – It’s a Sin

On this day 59 years ago in 1964 , american author Grace Metalious died aged 39 from cirrhosis of the liver after years of problems with alcohol . She authored one of publishings best selling books-Peyton Place.

If you don’t put Peter falk next year I’m quitting this site.

Ali Yafie (1926-2023) "You were waiting for that fucking peanut farmer, right?" Age at death: 96 Known health issues: On his deathbed with pneumonia and acute respiratory failure, in critical condition and on life support with COVID in 2020, hospitalised multiple times in 2021 and 2022, long hospitalization with multiple organ failure in 2023. Cause of death: EVERYTHING Alignment: No one wearing sunglasses can be a bad guy, right?

Nice to see three people who haven’t joined in with KoS trying to time Christmas ridiculously.

Obama could go before Jimmy. After all, nobody ever expected JFK to die before... Herbert Hoover

Hsing Yun (1927-2023) The Heavenly King goes to Heaven Age at death: 95 Known health issues: Diabetes for 55 years, three strokes in 2011, blood clot in 2016 with three hours surgery. Stroke and kidney failure in 2023. Cause of death: Kidney failure as a complication from a stroke Alignment: A good Buddhist guy who always tried to reconcicle people. Anyway he was also steadily pro-Bejing in Taiwan reunification and always declared all Taiwanese are Chinese. World needs more Hsing Yuns anyway.

Leo Rex, known for his longevity videos, found dead in Thailand

Yep, time to review those Best Picture Oscar Nominees: Michelle Yeoh takes time to mop up the vomit in Everything Everywhere Ill At Once. Tom Cruise enacts his famous character's childhood in Pop Gun: Maverick. 50s Rock n Roller plays to the immigrants to the USA on the island of Ellis. Lesbian conductress uses her arm waving skills to escape from the canvas sheet thrown over her in Tarp. A small Irish village is the setting for a day trip by bickering transsexuals in The Manshees of Inisherin. Whatever happened to all the Disney grandmothers? Find out in The Fabelnans. James Cameron reveals a long-awaited sequel, where an alien race discover a new home in a Scottish river in Avatar: The Tay Of Water. All soldiers just decide to stop fighting and play cards for the remainder of World War I in All Quit On The Western Front. Ladies who have been sexually abused strap on their strapons and take some revenge in Women Tasking. Hit movie adaptation of the story of the UK 2022 and the three hapless British Prime Ministers in Triangle Of Madness.

New Zealand activist Titewhai Harawira, associated with the Ngati Hine Hapu of Ngapuhi and Ngati Wai has died tomorrow at age 90: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/483043/titewhai-harawira-dies-aged-90

A few of them have already been released I think?

One of the big decisions for the new teams was on picking Irish campaigner Vicky Phelan or not. She's now going to spend the next 6 months in the USA, on "alternative treatment", the alternative would be palliative care: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/vicky-phelan-going-to-us-for-months-of-experimental-cancer-treatment-1.4454345 She says she has about 10 tumours in her body. Her immunotherapy worked pretty well for 3 years, but not perfectly, so some tumours shrunk some didn't. She's hoping for an additional 2-3 good years. And in about 2 months she will see the first effects, or not.

Bruce Boynton, a civil rights icon who helped inspire the historic Freedom Rides of 1961, has died at 83. The civil rights attorney and Alabama's first Black special prosecutor passed away earlier this week in Selma from cancer, according to former Alabama state Sen. Hank Sanders, a friend of Boynton's. Boynton's place in the Freedom Rides movement began in 1958 while a student at Howard University Law School in Washington, DC. Traveling on a bus bound for Alabama, Boynton got out to eat when the bus stopped for a break in Richmond, Virginia. He said he sat down in the "clinically clean" White area of the restaurant after seeing the unkempt "Blacks" section. He placed his order with the waitress. "She left and came back with the manager. The manager poked his finger in my face and said ... 'move,'" using a racial slur, Boynton recalled in his interview. "And I knew that I would not move, and I refused to, and that was the case." Boynton was later convicted of trespassing but went on to challenge his sentence with his attorney Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first Black Supreme Court justice. The appeal sparked the historic US Supreme Court ruling in Boynton v. Virginia. In a 7-2 decision in 1960, the Court banned bus station racial segregation. SC

TotalBiscuit back on chemo after new tumors found in his liver. Feel like this must have been mentioned somewhere by now, but can't find it.

It's America . Land of the 19th c holocaust. Land of religion. Land of guns. Land of bigotry. Land of self importance. Land of fat fucks. Land of rednecks. Land of the KKK (though started by Scots). Land of rascist black groups. Why on Earth are you surprised? Is it because it is only 30?

George Christie former chairman of Glyndebourne House dies

Woody Allen vehicle about yuppies in an Eighty's wig shop, and the explosion which darkens the Manhattan skies in Mullets Over Broadway.