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Her name sounds like "rigor mortis" !

Karen Rigmor Moritz, oldest person of Denmark dead at 110

Harry Howorth, reportedly the last survivor of those who landed on Sword Beach at Normandy and Legion d'Honneur recipient, reported dead aged 103: BBC news report from 2023: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-66069523

Once again something said without a hint of irony from Lizzie

She was in North by Northwest which is generally considered to be Hitchcock's masterpiece and she won an academy award for On The Waterfront. She is in the top tier of Hollywood nonagenarians

Thought I'd follow on from Alfred Hitchcock Presents by looking at Tales of the Unexpected. I've covered both the original U.S. and longer running U.K. series. Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected (1977) The only notable writers, James Schmerer (1938–2019) and Earl Wallace (1942–2018), are both deceased. Cast 1900s births: Russell Thorson (1906–1982) 1910s births: Lloyd Bridges (1913–1998), Alfred Ryder (1916–1995), Brendan Dillon (1918–2011) 1920s births: John Anderson (1922–1992), Tim O'Connor (1927–2018), Eugene Roche (1928–2004), Ramon Bieri (1929–2001) 1930s births: Patricia Smith (1930–2011), David Huddleston (1930–2016), Hal England (1932–2003), Herb Edelman (1933–1996), Robert Hogan (1933–2021), Pat Crowley (born 1933), Bill Bixby (1934–1993), Van Williams (1934–2016), Dean Stockwell (1936–2021), Ned Beatty (1937–2021), Paul Cavonis (born 1937), William C. Watson (1938–1997), Gary Collins (1938–2012), Ronny Cox (born 1938), Roy Thinnes (born 1938), David Birney (1939–2022) 1940s births: Ricky Nelson (1940–1985), Marlyn Mason (born 1940), Robert Foxworth (born 1941), Robert Pine (born 1941), Katherine Justice (born 1942), Jenny O'Hara (born 1942), Joanna Pettet (born 1942), Davey Davison (born 1943), Sheila Larken (born 1944), Linda Kelsey (born 1946), Janice Lynde (born 1946), Carl Weathers (1948–2024), Christine Belford (born 1949) 1950s births: Patricia Mattick (1951–2003), Kirby Cullen (born 1952), Eve Plumb (born 1958) Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988) Directors John Glenister (1932–2024), John Gorrie (born 1932), John Davies (born 1934), Dezsö Magyar (born 1938), Simon Langton (born 1941), Chris Lovett (born 1945) and Giles Foster (born 1948). There are 26 who are deceased, including the great Norman Lloyd (1914–2021). I can't find birth details for John Bruce, Gareth Davies, Graham Evans, and Christopher Lukas but they could be living. Story writers 36 are deceased, including the likes of Roald Dahl (1916–1990, also presenter), W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), C. S. Forester (1899–1966), and Ruth Rendall (1930–2015). Jane Gardam (born 1928), Donald Honig (1931), Peter Ransley (born 1931), Lady Antonia Fraser (born 1932), John Gorrie (born 1932), Peter Lovesey (born 1936), Lawrence Block (born 1938), Jeffrey Archer (born 1940), Bill Pronzini (born 1943), and Joseph Doughtery (born 1951) are still living. I can't find birth details for John Bakkenhoven, John Charters, Victor Edwards, Tonita S. Gardner, Ella Griffiths, J. J. Maling, Doug Morgan, Aileen Wheeler, Tony Wilmot and Zia Kruger but they could be living. Screenwriters 17 are deceased. Peter Ransley (born 1931) and Kevin Goldstein-Jackson (born 1946) are still living. I can't find birth details for Bernard Eismann, James Andrew Hall, Pat Hoddinott, Luther Murdoch, A. A. Roberts, Noella Smith, David Trainer and Tony Wilmot but they could be living. Cast 1890s births: Peter Godfrey (1899–1970) 1900s births: Roland Culver OBE (1900–1984), Evelyn Laye CBE (1900–1996), Jimmy Mac (1902–1984), Dame Anna Neagle DBE (1904–1986), Sir John Gielgud (1904–2000), Joseph Cotton (1905–1994), Joe Gladwin (1906–1987), Jessie Matthews OBE (1907–1981), Cyril Luckham (1907–1989), Bernard Miles CBE (1907–1991), Donald Eccles (1908–1986), Robert Morley CBE (1908–1992), Sir John Mills CBE (1908–2005), Nat Jackley (1909–1988), Robert Beatty (1909–1992) 1910s births: Cyril Cusack (1910–1993), Rachel Kempson (1910–2003), Raymond Francis (1911–1987), Harry Andrews CBE (1911–1989), Alan Gifford (1911–1989), Sir Michael Hordern CBE (1911–1995), Elspeth March (1911–1999), Ann Doran (1911–2000), Ian Martin (1912–1981), John Bailey (1912–1989), José Ferrer (1912–1992), Marius Goring CBE (1912–1998), Dame Wendy Hiller DBE (1912–2003), Margaretta Scott (1912–2005), Fanny Rowe (1913–1988), Sir Anthony Quayle CBE (1913–1989), Patrick McAlinney (1913–1990), Thorley Walters (1913–1991), Peter Cushing OBE (1913–1994), Steve Plytas (1913–1994), Michael Ripper (1913–2000), Ruth Kettlewell (1913–2007), Lou Jacobi (1913–2009), Margery Mason (1913–2014), Richard Basehart (1914–1984), Lally Bowers (1914–1984), Geoffrey Lumsden (1914–1984), Deryck Guyler (1914–1999), Bill Owen MBE (1914–1999), Phyllis Calvert (1915–2002), Peter Copley (1915–2008), Joyce Redman (1915–2012), Eli Wallach (1915–2014), Will Hare (1916–1997), William Moore (1916–2000), Phil Brown (1916–2006), Van Johnson (1916–2008), Hana Maria Pravda (1916–2008), Edward Burnham (1916–2015), Edward Jewesbury (1917–2001), Hilary Mason (1917–2006), Richard Greene (1918–1985), Diana King (1918–1986), Morris Barry (1918–2000), Peter Tuddenham (1918–2007), Martin Benson (1918–2010), Alfred Burke (1918–2011), Richard Pearson (1918–2011), Nancy Nevinson (1918–2012), Laurence Payne (1919–2009), Gabrielle Blunt (1919–2014), Peter Howell (1919–2015) 1920s births: Michael Aldridge (1920–1994), Kevin Brennan (1920–1998), Anthony Steel (1920–2001), Elliott Reid (1920–2013), John Horsley (1920–2014), Joan Greenwood (1921–1987), Logan Ramsey (1921–2000), Tad Horino (1921–2002), Peter Sallis OBE (1921–2017), Geoffrey Chater (1921–2021), Siobhán McKenna (1922–1986), Fulton Mackay OBE (1922–1987), Brewster Mason (1922–1987), Denholm Elliott CBE (1922–1992), Telly Savalas (1922–1994), Elizabeth Bradley (1922–2000), Mary Sinclair (1922–2000), Carmen Silvera (1922–2002), Robert Arden (1922–2004), Arthur Hill (1922–2006), Darren McGavin (1922–2006), Don Fellows (1922–2007), Sheila Burrell (1922–2011), Micheline Presle (1922–2024), Gloria Grahame (1923–1981), Heinz Bernard (1923–1994), Margaret Courtenay (1923–1996), Helen Horton (1923–2007), Betsy Blair (1923–2009), Gabrielle Hamilton (1923–2014), Dina Merrill (1923–2017), Jack Weston (1924–1996), Katy Jurado (1924–2002), Bettye Ackerman (1924–2006), George Sewell (1924–2007), Ron Moody (1924–2015), Zara Nutley (1924–2016), Geoffrey Bayldon (1924–2017), Harry H. Corbett OBE (1925–1982), Hugh Cross (1925–1989), Ivor Roberts (1925–1999), Ronnie Stevens (1925–2006), Michael Galloway (1925–2010), Julie Harris (1925–2013), Elaine Stritch (1925–2014), Stephen Hancock (1925–2015), Alan Rowe (1926–2000), Angus MacKay (1926–2013), Frank Finlay CBE (1926–2016), Fritz Weaver (1926–2016), Denys Graham (1926–2024), Frank Gatliff (1927–1990), Patrick O’Neal (1927–1994), Denis Quilley OBE (1927–2003), William Boyett (1927–2004), Janet Leigh (1927–2004), Tom Bosley (1927–2010), Richard Johnson (1927–2015), John Carson (1927–2016), Rita Gam (1927–2016), Lee Montague (born 1927), Warren Oates (1928–1982), George Peppard (1928–1994), John Bennett (1928–2005), Tony Franciosa (1928–2006), Bernard Kay (1928–2014), Vincent Wong (1928–2015), Moray Watson (1928–2017), Bill Maynard (1928–2018), Stuart Whitman (1928–2020), Anthony Dawes (1928–2021), Bernard Cribbins OBE (1928–2022), Joss Ackland CBE (1928–2023), Peter Cellier (born 1928), Jacqueline Hill (1929–1993), David Healy (1929–1995), Peter Jeffrey (1929–1999), Ted Gehring (1929–2000), Sir Nigel Hawthorne CBE (1929–2001), Miriam Byrd-Nethery (1929–2003), Peter Barkworth (1929–2006), Elizabeth Spriggs (1929–2008), Saeed Jaffrey OBE (1929–2015), Shane Rimmer (1929–2019), Maggie Fitzgibbon (1929–2020), John Nettleton (1929–2023), Michael Craig (born 1929), Dame Patricia Routledge DBE (born 1929) 1930s births: Colin Blakely (1930–1987), Dame Dorothy Tutun DBE (1930–2001), Bruce Boa (1930–2004), Diane Holland (1930–2009), Robert Loggia (1930–2015), Rod Taylor (1930–2015), Paula Tilbrook (1930–2019), David Webb (1930–2012), Lois Smith (born 1930), Larry Keith (1931–2010), Paul McDowell (1931–2016), Godfrey James (1931–2019), Sir Ian Holm CBE (1931–2020), James Greene (1931–2021), Robert Morse (1931–2022), Malachy McCourt (1931–2024), Leslie Caron (born 1931), Michael Forrest (1932–2004), Helmut Griem (1932–2004), Edward Grover (1932–2016), Avril Elgar (1932–2021), Phyllida Law OBE (born 1932), Johnny Shannon (1932–2017), Nina van Pallandt (born 1932), Donald Pickering (1933–2009), Pat Keen (1933–2013), Patsy Byrne (1933–2014), Peter Baldwin (1933–2015), Dudley Sutton (1933–2018), Dame Joan Collins DBE (born 1933), Dame Siân Phillips DBE (born 1933), Joan Hackett (1934–1983), Robert Lang (1934–2004), Richard Briers CBE (1934–2013), Keith Barron (1934–2017), Timothy West CBE (1934–2024), Heather Sears (1935–1994), Michael Wisher (1935–1995), Roger Brierley (1935–2005), Chaim Topol (1935–2023), Michael Jayston (1935–2024), Shirley Cain (born 1935), Nadim Sawalha (born 1935), David Buck (1936–1989), Clive Swift (1936–2019), Shirley Knight (1936–2020), Peter Bowles (1936–2022), Charles Kimbrough (1936–2023), Brian Blessed OBE (born 1936), Anna Massey CBE (1937–2011), Albert Moses (1937–2017), Benjamin Whitrow (1937–2017), Tom Smothers (1937–2023), Vic Tablian (born 1937), Hilary Tindall (1938–1992), Susan Strasberg (1938–1999), Michael Sheard (1938–2005), Elaine Ives-Cameron (1938–2006), Ann Beach (1938–2017), Bryan Marshall (1938–2019), Bill Bailey (born 1938), Eleanor Bron (born 1938), Frank Converse (born 1938), Sir Derek Jacobi CBE (born 1938), Patrick Mower (born 1938), Jim Norton (born 1938), Dick Smothers (born 1938), Terry Walsh (1939–2002), Royce D. Applegate (1939–2003), Andrew Ray (1939–2003), Mark Jones (1939–2010), Anthony Valentine (1939–2015), Timothy Carlton (born 1939), Samantha Eggar (born 1939), Jennie Linden (born 1939), Carol MacReady (born 1939) 1940s births: Ralph Bates (1940–1991), Gary Bond (1940–1995), Roy Lonnen (1940–2014), Anne Carroll MBE (1940–2018), Brian Osborne (1940–2021), Sir Michael Gambon CBE (1940–2023), John Alderton (born 1940), Seán Barrett (born 1940), John Castle (born 1940), Pauline Collins OBE (born 1940), Stefan Kalipha (born 1940), Charles Keatin (1941–2014), John Forgeham (1941–2017), Andrew MacLachlan (1941–2018), Geoffrey Beevers (born 1941), Jeremy Clyde (born 1941), Stephanie Cole OBE (born 1941), Forbes Collins (born 1941), Ellen Geer (born 1941), Miriam Margolyes OBE (born 1941), Roy Marsden (born 1941), June Ritchie (born 1941), Sheila Gish (1942–2005), Jennifer Hilary (1942–2008), Carol Lynley (1942–2019), Beth Porter (1942–2023), Helen Fraser (born 1942), Constantine Gregory (born 1942), Oscar James (born 1942), Jenny O’Hara (born 1942), Joanna Pettet (born 1942), Jo Rowbottom (born 1942), Kenneth Tigar (born 1942), Charles Hallahan (1943–1997), Kevin Dobson (1943–2020), Alison Fiske (1943–2020), Gayle Hunnicutt (1943–2023), John Beck (born 1943), Gary Burghoff (born 1943), Max Gail (born 1943), Sharon Gless (born 1943), Michael Byrne (born 1943), Maureen O’Brien (born 1943), Roger Rees (1944–2015), Frank Sinatra Jr. (1944–2016), Sondra Locke (1944–2018), Stephen Greif (1944–2022), Richard Barnes (born 1944), Keith Drinkel (born 1944), Cyd Hayman (born 1944), Vivien Heilbron (born 1944), Sandra Payne (born 1944), Patricia Quinn (born 1944), John Wyman (born 1944), Michael N. Harbour (1945–2009), Gareth Thomas (1945–2016), Andrew Burt (1945–2018), Nicholas Ball (1946–2024), Michael Brandon (born 1945), Gretchen Corbett (born 1945), Hugh Fraser (born 1945), Elaine Giftos (born 1945), Michael Melia (born 1945), Tamara Ustinov (born 1945), Jane Asher (born 1946), Brenda Blethyn OBE (born 1946), Tom Chadbon (born 1946), Charles Dance OBE (born 1946), Peter Egan (born 1946), Hayley Mills (born 1946), Michael Ontkean (born 1946), Sheila Ruskin (born 1946), Sir David Suchet CBE (born 1946), Stuart Wilson (born 1946), Carl Andrews (1947–1990), James Aubrey (1947–2010), Warren Clarke (1947–2014), Lois Baxter (born 1947), Brian Capron (born 1947), Jan Francis (born 1947), Anthony Higgins (born 1947), Andrew Hilton (born 1947), Tony Osoba (born 1947), Paul Seed (born 1947), James Warwick (born 1947), Lynette Davies (1948–1993), William Hootkins (1948–2005), Amanda Boxer (born 1948), Bud Cort (born 1948), Carol Drinkwater (born 1948), Sharon Duce (born 1948), James Faulkner (born 1948), Nicholas Field (born 1948), Judy Geeson (born 1948), Philip Jackson (born 1948), Michael Kitchen (born 1948), Elaine Paige OBE (born 1948), Frances Tomlety (born 1948), Christopher Blake (1949–2004), Celia Gregory (1949–2008), Ed Begley Jr. (born 1949), Jim Broadbent (born 1949), John Duttine (born 1949), Julian Fellowes (born 1949), Bosco Hogan (born 1949), Don Johnson (born 1949), Hazel McBride (born 1949), Susan Penhaligon (born 1949), Lill Roughley (born 1949), Bernice Stegers (born 1949), Pamela Stephenson (born 1949), Zoë Wanamaker CBE (born 1949) 1950s births: Simon Cadell (1950–1996), David Cassidy (1950–2017), Christopher Bramwell (born 1950), Dennis Christopher (born 1950), Allan Corduner (born 1950), Tom Cotcher (born 1950), Brad Dourif (born 1950), Denise Galik (born 1950), Susan George (born 1950), Liza Goddard (born 1950), Cheryl Hall (born 1950), Carol Leader (born 1950), Barbara Rosenblat (born 1950), Graham Seed (born 1950), Alpana Sengupta MBE (born 1950), Victoria Tennant (born 1950), Edward Albert (1951–2006), Peter Davison (born 1951), Deborah Harmon (born 1951), Nigel Havers (born 1951), Ian Redford (born 1951), Stephen Bent (born 1952), Lisa Eichhorn (born 1952), Deborah Geffner (born 1952), Roxanne Hart (born 1952), Cherie Lunghi (born 1952), Terry O’Quinn (born 1952), Albert Welling (born 1952), Tim Woodward (1953–2023), Tim Bentinck MBE (born 1953), Jonathan Coy (born 1953), Peter Firth (born 1953), Mary Gross (born 1953), Paul Herzberg (born 1953), Valerie Mahaffey (born 1953), Rob Spendlove (born 1953), Julia Watson (born 1953), Judi Bowker (born 1954), Sabina Franklyn (born 1954), Belinda Mayne (born 1954), Daragh O’Malley (born 1954), Glynis Barber (born 1955), Michael Conforti (born 1955), Randall Edwards (born 1955), Christopher Fulford (born 1955), Jennifer Holmes (born 1955), Michael Troughton (born 1955), Tara Buckman (born 1956), Jeremy Gittins (born 1956), Lucy Gutteridge (born 1956), Julie Dawn Cole (born 1957), Suzanne Danielle (born 1957), Phoebe Nicholls (born 1957), Amanda Redman MBE (born 1957), Bradley Lavelle (1958–2007), Caroline Langrishe (born 1958), Devon Scott (born 1958), Toyah Willcox (born 1958), Lynsey Baxter (born 1959), Caroline Goodall (born 1959), Kim Thomson (born 1959) 1960s births: Jason Carter (born 1960), Benedict Taylor (born 1960), Nigel Greaves (born c. 1960), Robin McCallum (1961–2022), Heather Locklear (born 1961), Jonathan Scott-Taylor (born 1962), Eamonn Walker (born 1962), Rosalind Bennett (born 1963), Lorna Yabsley (born 1964), Jemma Redgrave (born 1965), Paul Spurrier (born 1967) living but DOB unknown: Rachel Davies (born ?), Matthew Francis (born ?), Lesley Goldie (born ?), Erika Hoffman (born ?), Penelope Nice (born ?)

New photo of Ethel Kennedy with her family last week on her 96th birthday: https://people.com/ethel-kennedy-rare-appearance-photo-96th-birthday-celebrations-8630561 Her son RFK Jr. and his wife Cheryl Hines did make the event. Enclosed a zoomed-in shot, Ethel's in white.

Austin Murphy (Wiki), American politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1995, dead at 96

Its the 44th Anniversary of the publication of this triumph of typesetting (Apologies if its been posted before)

Over 100 days without a hit now - first time that milestone's been reached since the lull in Summer 2022.

Raman Subba Row bowled for 92: https://www.kiaoval.com/raman-subba-row-obituary/ Edit: DDP pick. Had to look under S!

The current Conservative Party is a uneasy coalition of One Nation Tories and Brexit/Culture War nutters. They only stay together because neither one wants to give up the activist base (which is needed come election time). In a recent council by-election in my constituency the Conservatives won (albeit on a very low turnout)

Thing is, you look at the definite seat-holders - Braverman, Hayes, Truss, plenty of that ilk. Are they the foundations on which to build a party that’ll be electable again in 10 years? Are they fuck. The only way the Tories become remotely credible again is if they detoxify themselves to pre-Brexit standards.

Michael Portillo was meant to be the shining knight for the Tory Party who was going to shake them up and make them a credible opposition to New Labour but he lost his seat on that night in 1997. Most people outside the Tory party thought that Ken Clarke was the sensible choice for leader (especially after Michael Heseltine's Heart Attack) but for the party he was too pro-European so they went with the untested William Hague (who might have made a good successor to one of the names above but he was plunged in too quickly) for these decisions they spent 13 years in opposition. However we don't know whether Clarke would have been able to put up a credible fight at the 2001 election which hardly saw any seats change hands from Labour to Conservative. As to members of the cabinet who elicit respect. The discussion around who will lead the party after the election does not throw up names that inspire confidence. A lot will depend on the size and make-up of the rump of Conservative MPs left and who would want the job. By saying Penny Mordaunt sounds like the best of a bad bunch is really just demonstrating how bad things are

Worth adding that we love a political narrative and the 92 narrative ignores that polling had become much kinder to the Tories under Major but was being ignored because obviously the Tories were going to lose. John Major was quite popular with the public even among those who disliked his government. As for Blair, a lot of 95/96 political news stuff has gone up on YouTube and it's an eye-opener. Leading Tories several times pointing out the polls can be wrong, they are hearing a different story on the doors, Tony Blair hasn't won over the public and Labour don't have any policies. I was getting deja vu watching. A lot of Tories legit thought the polling was wrong and that's been backed up to me by campaigners and candidates from the time. It also chimes with my admittedly childhood memories that Blair became popular after the election. But as with 1992 we like our narratives binary. I think now is worse because frankly many people respected Major, Ken Clark, Michael Forsyth, etc even as they voted them out. Who has genuine widespread respect in this cabinet? I always try to be fair and even then I'm struggling for names.

So do I ! The coins, that is, not the rest. Although I have collected a few bastards in my time.

Good to see that more than 2/4 of the songs making the final will be from the 2000s.

Ipsos are yet another pollster to see the Tories sink under 20%. In 45 years of Ipsos surveys, that's the lowest the Tories have ever polled with them. The now second-lowest is last month. Ninja'd by the DCI but it's worth looking at twice because it's quite funny.

As low as Major and Corbyn at their lowest points ooofff

Never give up hope young drol. Obit for Robert R. Holt.

Just to go back to the Menzies story

18/Apr/2024 71 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 38 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody +2 37 Adele — Chasing Pavements +2 37 La Roux — In For The Kill 35 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind 33 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 32 Rihanna — Russian Roulette 28 Taylor Swift — Love Story 27 Sam Sparro — Black & Gold 21 The Script — The Man Who Can’t Be Moved 12 Kid Cudi vs. Crookers — Day ’n’ Nite -2 12 Britney Spears — Piece Of Me -2 07 The Saturdays — Just Can’t Get Enough 04 Michael Jackson — Man In The Mirror -2

You have to admire the Tories. They manage to collect swindlers, fraudsters, corrupt bastards and sexual deviants like I collect commemorative 50p and 2 pound coins.

Replaced by Stevenage's Steve Evans.