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Sir Ian McKellen still recovering at home from his fall, in a neck brace and his right hand remains splinted. He also says he has relived the accident many times, and is afraid to leave his home. "I don’t go out because I get nervous in case someone bangs into me, and I’ve got agonising pains in my shoulders to do with my whole frame having been jolted." He is however still talking about taking up acting again once he recovers. I truly hope and believe he will return to the stage/set again, but I'll be checking in on his health more often than before. As many of us have said before, a fall at that age can often be the start of a slow decline.

Happy Birthday Ethel Caterham, 115 today, oldest in UK.

This theead has a couple of Paul Weller mentions so,... fellow The Jam member Bruce Foxton cancels tour because of health issues that required an immediate procedure: https://www.nationalworld.com/culture/music/bruce-hoxton-hospitalised-the-jam-tour-4749740

Report post Posted August 14, 2023 (edited) RULES: The competition will start 10 SEPTEMBER 2024 (all lists must be posted or sent in to me by 11:59pm (GMT) Sep 9) and scoring will end Aug 31, 2025. Submit a list of 26 people. The first name OR last name of the first person must begin with an A. Second person with a B. You get the idea. No joker. Please use this format A - Alan Arkin B - Harry Belafonte C - Clark Gable etc . . . . . Obit sources include those used by the Windy City Deadpool (Derby Dead Pool, plus for North America The NY Times, LA Times, CBS News, Fox News and MSN). Also acceptable: CNN, ABC, NBC, Rolling Stone and Time. Due to the large number of names possible, and because the more tenacious of you can find the folk on the very fringes of celebrity, please police your own obits and notify via post on this thread. NEW: This will be a self scoring pool. I will maintain a hits list and standings table and be responsible for double checking lists that are in contention for victory toward the end of the game. You do not have to update your score after every hit, but every few months would be nice to keep the standings somewhat accurate and interesting. SCORING: A hit using the first name (letters except as below) - 1 point A hit using the last name (letters except as below) - 2 points A hit with the first name at (A, E, I, O, U, Y) - 2 points A hit with the last name at (A, E, I, O, U, Y) - 3 points A hit with the first OR last name at (Q, X, Z) - 4 points A hit with an alliterative name scores the points for both first and last names as specified above (so an alliterative at the A spot would be worth 5 points, the B spot would be worth 3 points, the Q spot would be worth 8 points) NAMES: General titles such as Queen/Pope/Prince, etc. are NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE for scoring at that letter. Single names submitted (Cher, Madonna, Pele) will be treated as first names. I prefer to see real names used (e.g. Richard Penniman instead of Little Richard). No animals, due to the ease of earning the WS bonus. BONUSES: Whippersnapper Bonus (WS): dies at age 75 or younger = 2 points (if there is substantial ambiguity or birth year is unknown, no bonus will be awarded) NEW: No solo or duo bonuses will be awarded this year to make self scoring simpler. Solos = 3 points Duos = 1 point Vowel Movement Bonus (VMB): hit your names at all five vowel spots (A, E, I, O, U) = 5 points OR hit any four of your vowels + your name at the letter Y = 3 points NOTE: Do not try to score this bonus with a single hit by picking a name with all five vowels in it. That ship has sailed! You must hit 5 names at all the vowel spots (or Y) to get the bonus! Late Bloomer Bonus (LBB): If a single player is left without a hit, that player will automatically earn 20 points! This is a backdoor way for someone to potentially go from the cellar right into the thick of things. 20 points is not likely to win the game, but it is certainly a nice place to work for the come from behind win while also having a full list of 26 names left to score. Scoring Example: if someone gets a hit with 71 year old Zadora Zephyr, the score would be 8 + 2 (WS) = 10 pts TIES: Will be broken by the date the final score is reached. That is, if three folks end up with 48 points, the person that got to 48 on the earliest date will be the winner.  This was a pivotal rule one year! SUBS: Please check your list at the start of the game to make sure all names are still alive. I will allow a sub for that letter, but it can't be someone who is new to the DP radar since the game started. That means no one who is diagnosed with cancer/has an accident after your original submission. Enjoy!

hmmm seems we all will be on the look out daily if we see any announcements on Ericksson, McMichael, and Carter. McMichael and Carter are surprising me the most. I would never have guested in the beginning of this year that those two would be making it 3/4 of the way through this year.

Humberto Maschio dead. https://www.fanpage.it/sport/calcio/e-morto-humberto-maschio-uno-degli-angeli-dalla-faccia-sporca-con-angelillo-e-sivori-aveva-91-anni/

Bo Burnham is 34.

Completed the annual form study at A New Day over the weekend, roster packed with obitable talent many in the "no shit!, I didn't know they were still alive" category. Thankfully not much to report, ageing legends largely turning in legendary performances.The Sweet remain as muscular as ever since Andy Scott turned them into the rock band he always assumed they were. There have been social media posts saying he is doing well considering he's ill, which I'm assuming is the ongoing prostate cancer battle. Stories ahead of time were it's - literally - the end of the road for Hawkwind with Dave Brock (83 tomorrow) having been diagnosed with a heart condition that - apparently - makes future tours with himself in the line up uninsurable. That said, there's a hold-the-date alert on their website for next Easter, so maybe he'll continue into one-off gigs, or summat. Hawkwind, frankly, were at their current cosmic best closing out Saturday and there were no momentous "well, that's it" kind of announcements from the stage when they finished. Frankly, nowt to compare with the "fuck me, that's Chris Farlowe" moment a couple of years back as an old man stumbled around the stage, taking a chair between his vocals. Sonja Kristina's (Curved Air) voice has seen better days and she seated herself on the drum riser during instrumental breaks, but that's hardly a full scale health crisis. Andy Scott (75) below, photographed yesterday

Lauren Laverne diagnosed with cancer, recovering. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg3vql39p5o

I have started a new thread for next year's edition. I have given players 20 days (til Sep 10th) to construct and submit a list. Please see the new rules for minor changes and clarifications. Thanks!!

One of the joys of this game, for me at least, is that we have a group of people who disagree on which time period has the best/worst music, but we still seem to sift out the garbage and coalesce around a handful of songs which we all enjoy even if we don't necessarily agree with the winner of each game.

My 3 hits Clark is unique,Obrien is duo C Dick Clark E Edna O'Brien U Gudrun Ure

Peter Marshall was the ninth candidate of my list. So, 10 points (original value) + 5 points (thanks to Robert Badinter who was my 7th candidate) + 5 points (thanks to Irene Camber who was my 3rd candidate) + 5 points (thanks to Thomas Patten Stafford who was my 2nd candidate) = 25 points. Then... 25 base + 15 bonus... or am I wrong, @Death Impends?

This is great. These things always come across so forced and awkward but this one doesn't, just two decent people shooting the breeze, finding out about each other, and relaying experiences that ordinary people can understand. Can you imagine what an equivalent conversation between Trump and Vance would sound like?

D- Shannen Doherty I- Jonnie Irwin K- Henry Kissinger M- Shane MacGowan R- Rob Burrow S- Simon Cowell (Wildlife) U- Torben Ulrich V- Virgil (Wrestler)  Z- Mario Zagallo  My hits

my hits B Rob Burrow C Simon Cowell(Wildlife) D Shannon Doherty F Frank Field H Pat Heywood J Jonnie Irwin K Bobby Knight M Shane MacGowan R Johnny Ruffo V Basil Van Rooyen * no qualifying obit Z Mario Zagallo 38 points 4 Burrow LN+Under 75 4Cowell LN+Under 75 4Doherty LN+Under 75 3Field LN + FN both F 5(solo)Heywood LN+Unique 3Irwin FN+Under 75 3(duo)Knight LN+Duo 4MacGowan LN+Under 75 4Ruffo LN+Under 75 4Zagallo LN Z

I'm surprised James Carter Cathcart is still alive. There might be more James Carter than we think in him.

The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

To answer your PM my hits were: Rob Burrow Charlie Bird Frank Field Heath Streak Johnnie Irwin Oscar Quitak (didn't get a DDP qo though) Simon Cowell Paul Vachon Cale Yarborough Zoleka Mandela I've had rather too much whisky to work out the points for each right now though.

That's *why* I loved it! It's silly, it's playful, it bops and was catchy. Add in the fairly awful mockney accent and I have a real soft spot for Lena.

I thinks that's what we call a double-play

That's likely to be it. The man akready suffered from severe congestive heart failure and recurrent pneumonia, he was on ventilator for weeks last year but pulled a miracolous recovery. Then again hospitalized in June, suffers heart attack, but pulls through again. This fall he was hospitalized with severe pneumonia, reportedly in critical conditions, but once again he made it. And God, did he recover well! He even has a bunch of public appearances and could walk unaided. Now it is again pneumonia and multiple organ failure, which is extremely deadly for everyone, you imagine for an ill 96 year old. Then it seems he is improving once again, but his heart stops and for a bit (they have not evaluated brain damage still) so it is very hard even for a bouncer like him.

This will be good enough for the Hares for Nobuhiko Obayashi: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgAMgUIABCDATICCAAyAggAMgIIADIFCAAQgwEyBQgAEIMBMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgUIABCDAToOCAAQ6gIQtAIQmgEQ5QJKEwgXEg8yNzdnMTQwZzMwNWcxOThKCwgYEgcxZzFnMWcxULYYWOobYMwqaABwAHgAgAH3AYgBvQWSAQUxLjEuMpgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXqwAQY&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&client=tw-ob&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yomiuri.co.jp%2Fculture%2F20200411-OYT1T50020%2F