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Christopher Walken is 80. (Soon to continue walking without rhythm in Dune Part 2 later this year)

Wan Haifeng dead at 102!!!

Love the use of caps lock on a typo. INDICATED. SAD! Fucker reminds me of Ceciliain.

Richard Chamberlain, the attractive American film, stage and television actor and singer, the "King of the Miniseries", with estimable works such as "Centennial", "Shogun", and "The Thorn Birds" (the second most watched miniseries of all time behind "Roots"), who first rose to fame as the young intern, Dr. Kildare, in the popular medical drama of the same name, is 89 today. Volker Schlöndorff, the prominent German actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter, one of the most interesting filmmakers of his generation, whose great film, "Die Blechtrommel" ("The Tin Drum") (1979) (his masterpiece), won both the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and whose excellent filmography includes "A Free Woman", "The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum", "Coup de Grâce", "Circle of Deceit", "Swann in Love", "The Handmaid's Tale", "Voyager", "The Ogre", "Palmetto", "The Legend of Rita", "The Ninth Day", "Strike", "Calm at Sea", and "Diplomacy", is 84 today.

Felix Salinas death mention on twitter too... Jose del Castillo Spanish obit https://larepublica.pe/deportes/sporting-cristal/2023/02/04/sporting-cristal-fallecio-jose-del-castillo-tetracampeon-el-club-rimense-mundialista-la-seleccion-peruana-202576

Felix Salinas (Wiki), member of the 1970 Peruvian squad, dead according ti this Facebook post Jose del Castillo, also a member of the 1970 Peruvian squad, dead at 79 years old according to his Spanish Wiki but no links

If you want to take a gamble... Business ally of Venezuelan president Maduro, Alex Saab is in an American prison, and has a possible recurrence of stomach cancer, a bacterial infection, a broken molar because of beatings, anemia, anorexia, diabetes type 2, hypothryoidism, hypertension, and a high risk of thromboemblic disease: https://www.workers.org/2023/03/69987/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Saab

It was a boring day. A very boring day. The most boringest day in the history of the world. No one can have a BORINGER day than I can. Any UNTRUE CLAIMS that other people have had more boring days than me are from rADICAL WOKE LEFT FAKE NEWS LEFTIES ON THE LEFT. SAD!!

I’d have put my house, my car and all my possessions on Barbie Girl being one of the first five or six out. And there it is. In the top 3. Staggering.

Queen Silvia of Sweden ill, but apparently nothing serious.

Both of whom you’d leave in a burning building to save a potato. ‘Happy’ birthday thread my arse.

Fair point. Apologies for the dig. I don’t agree that I’m merely relying on precedent. This court has shown itself to have its fair share of textualists and pragmatists and I absolutely do not believe that Reed would be overturned. Further more the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act along with many other congressional acts would remain in place which ban sex discrimination in both the public and private spheres. The ERA that we have now “ready to go” is both redundant and poorly thought out. No one has ever done a decent job explaining how it would not create a sex-blind jurisprudence. Laws meant to support the advancement of women in society would be undermined; just as anti-discrimination statutes are being used to dismantle affirmative action. Even Title IX would be compromised by the ERA. Furthermore the ERA only bans discrimination by the government. It’s a lousy law. Even Justice Ginsburg thought it should be thrown out in favor of something more nuanced. There are many sexual disparities in US society but the ERA won’t fix them, and it may even exacerbate them.

oh god our "jefferson lives." lol

you could in theory be 103 and sworn in. there should be no line drawn. that would require amending the Constitution which is difficult and it's a waste of time on this issue. I'm more interested in getting something like equal rights for women added to the Constitution.

Political satirist Mark Russell is a rare hit for me here https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/arts/mark-russell-piano-playing-political-satirist-dies-at-90.html

North Carolina congressman and former Senate candidate Nick Galifianakis dead at 94. (Also the uncle of Zach Galifianakis.)

Been away most of the day. Sounds like he had breathing issues, they arranged for him to come in and discovered it wasn't too good. Either that or the Vatican's initial statement was polishing a turd. In any event, he's the Pope. Jeez, I'm not RC but every whisper of Prince Philip or Her Maj going into hospital had the doom merchants out on here predicting their demise, speculating what was wrong etc etc. Whatever you think of the whole bally incense and mass, he really is that important to many.

Given he's missing part of his right lung and his age you do wonder. Wouldn't necessarily take much in those circumstances...

They could have spent the time posting that writing an obituary for Keith Reid

31 yo Alexa Bliss has skin cancer and recently underwent surgery to remove a tumor

Was Cribbins included?

Dave Nicoll, English professional Grand Prix motocross racer has died aged 78. Obit

Various wrestling websites, of veracity unknown, are reporting the death of Wladek "Killer" Kowalski, considered one of the first superstars of the industry. As such, I assume he is largely to blame for the form of existence professional wrestling has taken in the past fifty years. Edited because apparently his real first name was "Wladek."