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Winfield Dunn dead at 97.

Our host, TQR, will no longer be updating this pool and has graciously handed this pool over to me to update henceforth. I wanna thank him for all the work he's done on the pool up to this point!

Mildly interesting DL-related trivia is that he was Dick Van Dyke's IRL gym pal, hence why DVD appeared on Days as Hogestyn's dad last year.

Alexandre do Nascimento (wiki) finally dead at 99. A DDP pick for 2 teams. Nascimento was the last living cardinal born in 1925. The oldest living cardinal is now Estanislao Esteban Karlic (wiki) of Argentina who is 98. Nascimento was also the last surviving cardinal who was barred from voting in the 2005 conclave (which elected Benedict) because he was 80+ and thus ineligible to vote.

My first update as host involves the saddening passing of the actress, Dame Maggie Smith. This was also the second hit for our original host, TQR. The updated scoreboard is as follows: Banana - 4 Engineer - 3 GuyFromFuture - 3 En Passant - 2 Newjack - 2 Grim Up North - 2 Book - 2 Great Uncle Bulgaria - 2 Spade Cooley - 2 CaptainChorizo - 2 TQR - 2  gcreptile - 1 Death Impends - 1 RoverAndOut - 1 Charles d’Irlande - 1 Joemoneypenny - 1 Dying Probably - 1 Toast - 1 BuffaloPhil - 1 CalebH - 1 markb4 - 1 time - 1 Don't Fear The Reaper - 1 Everyone else - Zilch

29/Sep/2024 83 Dean Martin — That’s Amore 74 Nat King Cole — Smile 61 Elvis Presley — Hound Dog 61 Elvis Presley — Heartbreak Hotel 54 Frank Sinatra — (Love Is) The Tender Trap +4 20 Nat King Cole — Pretend 18 Frankie Laine — Where The Winds Blow -3 12 Frankie Vaughan — The Green Door 07 Lou Busch — Zambesi -3

Is there anybody in the world surprised that Rosie Duffield has quit the Labour Party? A ticking timebomb for at least 2 years. Doing so at a time of peak weakness. How ever much the left froth and the right shout and scream, Sir Keir has a majority of more than 160, he can largely do what he likes. I would appreciate it if he could clean his act up though, stop the amateur mistakes and crack on with solving some of the issues this country faces. Lots of words and plans but not a lot of action yet (I know that's not all his fault, summer then conference season - just imagine if Rishi had called the election in May like he was meant to!) and plenty of pain but not much in the way of rewards. All this nonsense is taking up the room because there's nothing else to talk about. Let's see some practical steps that sure up the finances, make people feel more confident and start to move the country in the right direction. No problem with him taking executive tickets at Arsenal, fully understand the security risks and he's had a season ticket for years. The clothes and stuff is a trickier issue, some of it is a storm in a teacup (Angela Rayner in NYC) but the clothes gifts are awkward when he's so personally wealthy. That said, the double standards from the Tories on this is incredible - do they remember their saviour Boris?

Acting Dames Dame Kate Harcourt DNZM b. 16 Jun 1927 Dame Patricia Routledge DBE b. 17 Feb 1929 Joan Plowright, Baroness Plowright DBE b. 28 Oct 1929 Dame Virginia McKenna DBE b. 7 Jun 1931 Dame Sheila Hancock DBE b. 22 Feb 1933 Dame Sian Phillips DBE b. 14 May 1933 Dame Joan Collins DBE b. 23 May 1933 Dame Eileen Atkins DBE b. 15 Jun 1934 Dame Judi Dench DBE b. 9 Dec 1934 Dame Julie Andrews DBE b. 1 Oct 1935 Dame Vanessa Redgrave DBE b. 30 Jan 1937 Dame Janet Suzman DBE b. 9 Feb 1939 Dame Penelope Keith DBE b. 2 Apr 1940 Dame Helen Mirren DBE b. 26 Jul 1945 Dame Joanna Lumley DBE b. 1 May 1946 Dame Maureen Lipman DBE b. 10 May 1946 Dame Penelope Wilton DBE b. 3 Jun 1946 Dame Julie Walters DBE b. 22 Feb 1950 Dame Harriet Walter DBE b. 24 Sep 1950 Dame Imelda Staunton DBE b. 9 Jan 1956 Dame Emma Thompson DBE b. 15 Apr 1959 Dame Kristin Scott Thomas DBE b. 24 May 1960 Plus the following 4 names are known primarily for something else but have done some acting: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa DBE b. 6 Mar 1944 [opera singer] Dame Twiggy DBE b. 19 Sep 1949 [model] Floella Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin DBE b. 23 Sep 1949 [TV presenter] Dame Miranda Harcourt DNZM b. 1962 [acting coach] Honorary Dame Angelina Jolie b. 4 Jun 1975 I make that 22 (26 if you include people of other professions who have done some acting). Plus Jolie, who I almost refuse to count as she's honorary, not a Commonwealth citizen, and got it because of charity work... Deaths since 2008 (when I joined DL ) Dame Pat Evison DBE 1924–2010 (85) Dame Elizabeth Taylor DBE 1932–2011 (79) Dame June Whitfield DBE 1925–2018 (93) Dame Vera Lynn DBE 1917–2020 (103, primarily a singer) Dame Olivia de Havilland DBE 1916–2020 (104) Dame Diana Rigg DBE 1938–2020 (82) Dame Barbara Windsor DBE 1937–2020 (83) Dame Olivia Newton-John DBE 1948–2022 (73) Dame Angela Lansbury DBE 1925–2022 (96) Dame Maggie Smith DBE 1934–2024 (89)

I intentionally didn’t list background characters/extras. “Dimpled woman on train” is not interesting.

Frances Bean Cobain had a baby with Tony Hawk's son Riley: https://consequence.net/2024/09/frances-bean-cobain-riley-hawk-birth-first-child/ A son named Ronin on September 17th.

Sun 29 Sep 83 Dean Martin — That’s Amore 74 Nat King Cole — Smile 61 Elvis Presley — Hound Dog +2 61 Elvis Presley — Heartbreak Hotel +2 50 Frank Sinatra — (Love Is) The Tender Trap 21 Frankie Laine — Where The Winds Blow 20 Nat King Cole — Pretend 12 Frankie Vaughan — The Green Door 10 Lou Busch — Zambesi 00 Frank Sinatra — Learnin’ The Blues -6

Congrats @DoorSlammer

29-Sept 83 Dean Martin — That’s Amore 74 Nat King Cole — Smile 59 Elvis Presley — Hound Dog 59 Elvis Presley — Heartbreak Hotel 50 Frank Sinatra — (Love Is) The Tender Trap +4 21 Frankie Laine — Where The Winds Blow -6 20 Nat King Cole — Pretend 12 Frankie Vaughan — The Green Door 10 Lou Busch — Zambesi 06 Frank Sinatra — Learnin’ The Blues

Congrats @DoorSlammer 1924: Shmuel Kamenetsky / Kaiti Grey 1925: Mahathir Mohamad / Adele Addison 1926: Moshe Sternbuch / Qi Xin 1927: Carl "Doc" Severinsen / Leontyne Price 1928: Harrison Ruffin Tyler / Joyce Hens Green 1929: Sam Nujoma / Thelma Barlow 1930: Theodore McCarrick / Tippi Hedren 1931: Irwin Winkler / Silvia Pinal 1932: Bedros Kirkorov / Naina Yeltsina 1933: Félicien Kabuga / Julie Newmar

ITV football pundit line up 1974, just before our Pete started driving lorries and killing women

Alexandre do Nascimento a hit for DoorSlammer. Congratulations. New Round: 1924: Jimmy Carter / Priscilla Pointer 1925: Dick Van Dyke / June Lockhart 1926: Abdoulaye Wade / Noreen Riols 1927: L. K. Advani / Cleo Laine 1928: Noam Chomsky / Hazel Ascot 1929: Charles Dumont / Violeta Chamorro 1930: Sonny Rollins / Joanne Woodward 1931: Norman Tebbit / Isabel Martinez de Peron 1932: Indarjit Singh / Antonia Fraser 1933: Alexander Mitta / Yoko Ono

I'm still trying to muster the courage to watch that. I watched it last night. Not what you'd call a feelgood family film, is it? Some of it was pretty icky and I was afraid it might give me bad dreams but it didn't , not so far anyway. I won't watch it again, but I'm glad I've seen it.

Nasrallah had the ultimate bad luck, as his death was completely overshadowed by the demise of a universally loved leading lady, organic farmer Pappammal.

Olivia de Havilland got her Damehood when she was almost 101.

Patricia Routledge Joan Plowright Virginia McKenna Sian Phillips Sheila Hancock Joan Collins Judi Dench Eileen Atknis Julie Andrews Vannesa Redgrave Janet Suzman Penelope Keith Penelope Wilton Joanna Lumley Twiggy Harriet Walter Emma Thompson Julie Walters Imelda Staunton Kristin Scott Thomas

Maybe it's just personal interest because I'm with Gisooo in that it's been a horrible year. But all of the names who come to mind for BIG deaths are only really big for personal interests. In terms of most shocking Carl Weathers and Ian Lavender come to mind but both were in their 70s, so not really. Personally Susan Wojcicki is a big shock death but that was hardly front page news. Alexei Navalny is probably the closest to a internationally famous shock death, but being realistic the biggest shock is that it didn't happen 10 years ago. Major political deaths have been quite lacking, I'd argue Brian Mulroney is maybe the biggest. Off the top of my head OJ Simpson is possibly the most high profile death of the year so far, with his only competition being James Earl Jones or Donald Sutherland.

Did not expect her to be the first Dame to die out of the "Tea with the Dames"-cast, beside being the youngest: Joan Plowright (28.10.1929), Eileen Atkins (16.06.1934) and Judi Dench (09.12.1934) all were older than Maggie Smith (28.12.1934), even if only by a few months or even weeks.

A legend. RIP Dame Maggie.

1 year to the day since her co-star in the Potter films Michael Gambon died!!! edit: ninja'd

I’d also add Amanda Barrie (born 1935) who remains excellent for her age.