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So CRUEL!

I’ve been in tears all morning tbh.

Surely that's cheating?

Death notice for Sir Richard Vickers aged 95: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/vickers-notices_55709

One of my early front page regrets was spending more than five minutes on Russell Bishop's obit. All deep-diving into that oxygen waster's life did was infuriate me. Then I just used Garavito to write about the Isley Brothers instead. I learn from my mistakes!

I think we can say Murder is pretty safe for now. Move on innit. *steps back while her points inevitably climb to 150*

Oliver (the singer) died on this day 24 years ago, aged 54. - Oliver's birth name was William Swofford, but he went by his middle name as a mononym during his professional career. He was also known as "Bill Swofford" while as a member of bands such as The Virginians and The Good Earth. - Oliver's breakout song was 1969's "Good Morning Starshine", included in the musical Hair: It reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it is primarily remembered for its nonsensical chorus- and as a Johnny Depp Willy Wonka quote: - The same year, Oliver had another hit song with "Jean", the theme to the movie The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, reaching #2 on the chart (kept off the top by The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar"): - Oliver's stardom would soon wane, with his last charting single being a cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain" in 1971, peaking at #124 on the Bubbling Under chart. He would retire from making music in 1984. - Oliver was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the mid-1990s, and died after it metastasized- unfortunately his death was overshadowed by that of Tom Landry the same day. In 2010, he was posthumously inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame (he was born and raised in the state).

Judy Blume, author of Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret and Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing is 86.

Shocking and tragic news. He was on track to go sub 2h.

Sunday Times cartoon calls it accurately:

Following on from the Ideas and Possibilities thread, Steve Harley of Cockney Rebel fame has a 'nasty' cancer. https://m.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=100058063000040 All tour dates cancelled. Famous enough in my opinion without being lumped into a generic music thread.

In critical condition. His wife does not expect him to live much longer.

Official duties transferred to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks

Charles Stendig (wiki), American furniture businessman, supposedly dead at 99. Also a WWII veteran.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.nine.com.au/article/cc5fa662-410e-4039-8e4c-708eddee11cd Kelvin Keptum dead. Shocking

Be careful what you wish for, if Trump died and we ended up with President Marjorie Taylor Greene as she was VP we would all be wishing Trump had survived

Mon 12 Feb 06:43 AEDT 64 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor 45 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 41 Daft Punk — One More Time +4 36 The Supermen Lovers & Mani Hoffman — Starlight 29 U2 — Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of -2 28 Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue — Kids -4 25 Moloko — The Time Is Now 24 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This 22 Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson — Movin’ Too Fast 22 Sonique — Sky 21 Zombie Nation — Kernkraft 400 21 S Club 7 — Reach 13 Outkast — Ms. Jackson 13 Mis-Teeq — All I Want

No place in the sun ! Jonnie Irwin is a popular hit : picked by Book, bibliogryphon Buffalophil, CaptainChorizo, Commtech Sio Bibble, deathbyarsenic, gcreptile, handrejka, ladyfiona, max_bossetti, msc, perhaps, Sean, Summer in Transylvania, theoldlady, ThereWillbeDeaths7, Toast, Torva Messor, wannamaker and Wep (pfiou…) and a single miss for @YorkshireBanker : another sub needed please ! @Bibliogryphon : Noam Chomsky in @Book : Noam Chomsky in again and Caprio as sub 3 @BuffaloPhil : David Graham in and two subs to choose please ! @CaptainChorizo : David Graham in too ! and Sven-Göran Eriksson as new sub @Commtech Sio Bibble : William Russell in and Sven Goran Eriksson on the sub bench too @DeathByArsenic: Roberta Flack in and Madeleine Riffaud waiting for her turn @gcreptile : Noam Chomsky in and another sub to choose ! @Handrejka : Esther Rantzen in and Alain Delon as new sub @ladyfiona : Esther Rantzen in too and Sven-Göran Eriksson on the sub bench max_bossetti : Chomsky on the official list and another sub needed please ! @msc : Andrea Gibson in and another sub needed please ! @Perhaps : Thomas P. Stafford joins the official list, and Jim Lovell on the sub bench Sean : James Carter Cathcart in and Sven Goran Eriksson as sub 3 @Summer in Transylvania : Baas de Gay Fortman in and (again) Svan Goren Eriksson as new sub @theoldlady : Marianne Faithfull in and Frank Caprio on the sub list ThereWillBeDeaths7 : David Attenborough in and… Sven Goran Eriksson as new sub @Toast : Liza Minnelli in and Dave Myers as sub 3 @Torva Messor : Roger Guillemin in and Ali Hassan Mwinyi as new sub @wannamaker : Chomsky in (again) and Caprio as sub 2 @WEP : Alexander Mitta in and Jamal Yunos on the sub list ---------------------------------------- Keith of death ! Toby Keith is a hit for ajlposh, Sean and wannamaker : one point each, congrats ! And a miss for Captain Hemlock : Ryne Sandberg as new sub @ajlposh : Derek Chauvin in and another sub needed @Sean : Chomsky in and you have to choose another sub Wannamaker : Sven Goran Eriksson in and ---------------------------------------- Conducted to death ! Seiji Ozawa is a hit for GuyFromFuture and max_bossetti : one point each, congrats @GuyFromFuture : Roger Cook in and Yoshiro Nakamatsu as new sub max_bossetti : Jamal Yunos in and no subs left on your bench… ---------------------------------------- Dries Van Argh ! Dries Von Agt is a hit for CalebH and ThereWillBeDeaths7 @CalebH : KM peyton in another sub needed @ThereWillBeDeaths7 : Noam Chomsky in and another sub needed too ! ---------------------------------------- Mike Martin is just a miss for @max_bossetti : which means you have three subs to choose, great work A busy period… Sven-Goran Eriksson seems to be a favorite from now-on and Chomsky eventually made it to a lot of teams recently !

American linguist of the Ichishkíin language Virginia Beavert (Wiki) dead at 102

11/2/2024  64 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor 45 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 38 Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue — Kids 36 Daft Punk — One More Time +1 36 The Supermen Lovers & Mani Hoffman — Starlight +3 28 Sonique — Sky 27 U2 — Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of 25 Moloko — The Time Is Now 24 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This 22 Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson — Movin’ Too Fast 19 Zombie Nation — Kernkraft 400 18 Mis-Teeq — All I Want 18 S Club 7 — Reach 11 Outkast — Ms. Jackson -6 1 Samantha Mumba — Gotta Tell You

Roy Scheider died on this day 16 years ago, aged 75. He was an American actor and amateur boxer. Described by AllMovie as "one of the most unique and distinguished of all Hollywood actors", he gained fame for his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s through to the early to mid-1980s. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award. His best-known roles include Chief Martin Brody in Jaws (1975) and its sequel Jaws 2 (1978); NYPD Detective "Cloudy" Russo in The French Connection (1971); NYPD Detective "Buddy" in The Seven-Ups (1973); Doc Levy in Marathon Man (1976); Jackie Scanlon / Juan Dominguez in Sorcerer (1977); choreographer and film director Joe Gideon in All That Jazz (1979); Officer Frank Murphy in Blue Thunder (1983); and Dr. Heywood R. Floyd in the 1984 film 2010: The Year We Make Contact, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey. He was also known for playing Captain Nathan Bridger in the science-fiction television series seaQuest DSV (1993–1996).

Following the death of Michael Jayston the list of classic Doctor Who serials with no surviving guest actors is up to 6. With those being An Unearthly Child, Planet of the Giants, The Rescue, The Power of the Daleks, The Deadly Assassin and The Ultimate Foe. (You could technically include the Edge of Destruction but it had no guest cast to begin with so I don't think it counts). An Unearthly Child & Planet of Giants have 2 regulars - Russell and Ford The Rescue is just Russell and O'Brien Power and Assassin both just have 1 surviving cast member being Anneke Wills and Tom Baker respectivly and now The Ultimate Foe has Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford.