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Tim Curry is... 77! Outside of Rocky Horror, It, and Home Alone 2, he also did some voice roles I'd like to show: Besides Hexxus, he also voiced Professor Calamitous in Jimmy Neutron and Nigel Thornberry in The Wild Thornberrys.

As if he hadn't suffered enough, Derek Draper makes it to an Elton John concert: https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1759763/kate-garraway-derek-draper-covid-elton-john-concert-tribute

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11987769/Barry-Humphries-rushed-hospital-major-health-setback-Dame-Edna.html Rushed back to hospital due to complications and health has now worsened according to this new article.

Hey, some people did sourdough during early lockdown, I did this. I promise if we ever get another global pandemic, or I'm confined to a hospital bed for a week or so but can still use my arms, I will finish this off.

Asahel Porter died on this day 248 years ago, aged 23. - You're probably wondering why I've chosen a seemingly insignificant person for today (I couldn't even find a portrait of him)- but he wasn't. - Porter was a clothing seller from Woburn, Massachusetts, following in his father Josiah's footsteps. In 1773, he married a Ms. Abigail Brooks and had a son, Asahel Jr (who was two months old when his father died). - On the morning of April 19, 1775, Porter and his brother-in-law Josiah Richardson set out on horseback to go to the Boston market. As they entered West Cambridge, the two of them were captured by British officers (possibly believing them to be associated with the Midnight Ride hours before)- despite their pleas of innocence, they were arrested and forced to accompany the troops to Lexington. - The British let the two go there under condition that they remain peaceful- Porter ran off in a panic (likely once the "shot heard round the world" was fired) and was killed from the ensuing exchange of gunfire between the minutemen and the redcoats. - In short, Porter's significance in history was that he was the among the first casualties of the American Revolution.

Didn’t last long:

So, if he does that planned next tour he'll literally be a hip-op artist

Just been to see the new Dungeons & Dragons film. It is pitched absolutely perfectly. So much fun

I figured as there's a "Read any Good books Lately?" thread, and I can't read, that I'd start a movie version for those of us with the attention span of a goldfish. On a recent trip to the US I thoroughly enjoyed Superman Returns and (gulp) The Devil Wears Prada, and was astonished at how bewilderingly unfunny I found Borat. All the great reviews, massive box office, people (Americans even) in the cinema falling around laughing, while I sat there in stunned silence. Must be the curmudgeon thing.....

American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, forger, and political philosopher Benjamin Franklin died on this day 233 years ago, aged 84.

Grant "Jim" Beaumont, father of the Beaumont children, which children disappeared in 1966, reportedly dead: One of Australia's great mysteries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_the_Beaumont_children

Not sure if this is the correct thread but was just wondering how I could get more involved with this site such as helping in an administrative capacity. I have been a joined up member since May 2018 and I am totally hooked and plan to stay on here for a very long time.

3 June

Glynis Johns

Just played the overview video on Youtube - Why is Liz Truss representing Lithuania? :-)

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

Dario Campeotto finished 5th in the 1961 competition with Angelique:

Mário Zagallo makes rare appearance with Caju:

Tom Cushman was one of many known as the "Fourth Beastie Boy" - he has a writing credit on "Fight for Your Right to Party" and is namechecked in "Hey Ladies" ("Tom Thumb, Tom Cushman, or Tom Foolery"). He was later arrested for selling Philip Seymour Hoffman the drugs that killed him. His Discogs profile says he died in 2018, and that seems to be backed up by a tweet here. Can't find any obituary though, which is odd - you'd have thought he'd have at least qualified for some sort of Brooklyn music blog-level coverage. Discogs claims his real name was Steven Cushing Thomas, and that name is associated with a British library music company called High Left. Their Company House page says that Steven Cushing Thomas, of Seattle, Washington ceased a stake in the company in mid-2018, but then retook one a day later. So I don't know. Probably dead. Edit: Died early June 2018 according to this Facebook post, with a memorial taking place on December 22 of that year at St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn Heights, if anyone fancies searching for a reference.

Dick Trickle that's a brilliant name :-) :-) Sounds more like a medical condition

Well that explains the big growth on the nose of Leslie Phillips...

Robert Catesby was executed on this day in 1605

My attempt at an update. Any errors are regretted. Isn't it time to add the 2008-list to this list.... I am not sure but I believe that '08 has currently less survivors than '07.... edit: I was right: (22/50) Biggs, Niemeyer, Castro, Pincher, Wallach, Shamir, Douglas, Domino, Lom, Gabor, Lynn, Sharon, Graham, Watson, LaMotta, Karzai, Demjanjuk, Klugman, Sykes, Moore, Taylor (Charles not Liz), Dunn

More details: "He faces the standard risk of any operation of this magnitude. Infection, pneumonia as well as rejection of the new liver." But Dr Starkey says Hinch has been a great patient. "He came along with a positive frame of mind and I think he was probably excited to get this opportunity and another chance at life really," he said. "At the start of Derryn's operation we worried there might be quite a lot of blood loss, but things settled down nicely and in the end the operation really went quite smoothly." Dr Starkey says as each day goes by they will be more confident about Hinch's recovery. "There's always the chance of things going wrong," he said. "It's a big operation and you go in quite sick and you go through this major procedure, but having had a very smooth operation it's a good start and we're fairly confident that he'll go well." Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/07/06/3262110.htm

Indeed. No idea how old he was though. He was 67 in May 2010 according to The Sun.