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Happy 96th birthday

Merci, Lafaucheuse! Yes, she does seem rather frail.

In fact yes, this is What she says : caridovascular surgery saved her life because she couldn’t walk. The doctor ask her « how are you now ? » and she answers « I’m really well, I can walk Again even if it’s Difficult » then she talks about her stay in the hospital. She looks quite well but you can clearly see and hear that she’s tired and old...

From what I could make out, she says that two years ago she couldn't walk at all, "couldn't put a foot to the ground", but cardiovascular surgery "saved her life". Perhaps one of our French members can help out here.

That was a repeat having been first broadcast in August 2017 and most probably recorded in early 2017.

Also played Felix Leiter in the two mildly average Timothy Dalton Bond films.

Knew those shark bites were serious. Before the Craig reboot, the only man to play Felix Leiter in the Bond series twice. And in Live and Let Die and Licence to Kill, two of the best Bond films imo.

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea alumnus David Hedison, dead: https://deadline.com/2019/07/david-hedison-dead-voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-actor-obituary-1202650432/ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0373314/

American Composer Ben Johnston dead at 93 years: https://www.techchrunch.net/2019/07/deaths-obituaries-ben-johnston.html He was known for writing contemporary music in just intonation and he contributed greatly to microtonal music.

Did you see the bit where he tried to blame his own crimes on his son? Proper Grade A twat.

Rubbish, its never then they are ALWAYS the victims. "That lot" have never done a thing wrong

Charlie Elphicke, suspended from the Tories for serious allegations, then reinstated so he could vote for May in the VONC, has had those serious allegations progress to prosecution: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-49072464 Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

A nine months old sign of life from famous French Ballet dancer & movie star Zizi Jeanmaire. The 95 years old is still clearheaded & coherent, but she needs help standing up.

what if he is faking it

Robert Morgenthau, 99, who became the scourge of white-collar criminals over three decades as the Manhattan district attorney, died on Sunday. He passed at a hospital in Manhattan, after a short illness, his wife told the Times. He would have turned 100 on July 31. Morgenthau became Manhattan's chief prosecutor in 1975 and finally chose not to run for re-election in 2009 at age 90, ending a 35-year run during which he told the New York Times he oversaw 3.5 million cases. SC A little surprising he isn't now nor ever was a DDP selection. Even I heard of him and I never lived in NYC. Theme team, people who pick real old folks... just surprising is all. Interesting if he QOs.

Perhaps when he does go he’ll take the phrase “Jiminy!” with him

Yesterday was Jimmy and Rosalynn's 73rd anniversary. As long as nothing happens to either of them in the next 111 days, or by October 27th of this year, they will surpass George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush as the longest married U.S. presidential couple. https://people.com/politics/jimmy-rosalynn-carter-celebrate-73-years-of-marriage/

Kirks close friend, the german film director Artur Brauner died today at 100 years: https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/artur-brauner-100-film-legende-verstorben-63143546.bild.html

She spoke at some event, no explicit health news, but politically interesting: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ruth-bader-ginsburg-partisan-gerrymandering-census

Was Doris Day one of the biggest absences from the AFI greatest list - she was eligible as her career started before 1950.

RIP and thanks for all the wonderful memories and I hope she meet up with her old pal Rock.

Awww... such a sweet lady, punished by our collective sigh of relief - finally a 2nd hit! She doesn't deserve to be ghouled over - but at least she had a long life, and was in good health until last year.

Sad news. But at least she had good health and it was a sudden enough death.

Natural causes (piranhas)?

That's a fine choice of book, Godot. I read it last summer when I was searching for and failing to find answers about our possible fate. I remember the last chapter - What Must Be Done - very well, but I still came away from reading it feeling that Peter Ward is just wrong and that we don't have it in us at all to resolve the difficulties we have created. He seemed to have compete faith in mankind's ability to ultimately become collectively more constructive than destructive and I fear he was fundamentally mistaken on that particular point. I've decided I'm more of a Gaia man overall. Top rant LFN , hope you're feeling better now. You are wrong about global warming and the scientific community is right. They are not arrogant, they are trying, in vain, to save us. We are in very serious trouble and I am convinced that the planet in, say, fifty years will be a far, far worse place to live in than it is today and even then people (if there are any left) will refuse to take responsibility for the predicament in which we find ourselves. Something terrible is going to happen to us all and it is going to happen sooner rather than later. I'm off out to watch "The Road" one more time...