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Herb Solow (IMDb), producer who oversaw the development and sale of Star Trek to NBC, has died aged 89. He worked on other TV shows including Mission: Impossible and Man from Atlantis. Obituaries: Daily Mail

I'll believe it when I see it. But if anyone was likely to suddenly die and leave fear and chaos in his wake like Stalin did, it is most certainly Vlad.

Simple pool: pick three celebrities you think we'll see handling raw meat during 2021. Points are as follows: Globally recognised photo agency (Getty, AP, UPI, whichever) publishes a photo of your celebrity handling raw meat: 10 points Celebrity publishes social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tiktok) photo or footage of them handling raw meat: 5 points DDP QO source contains print mention of your celebrity handling raw meat: 3 points Your celebrity handles raw meat on national television (footage must have been recorded in 2021): 1 point No points are awarded for cooked meat. Points can be awarded from different categories for the same incident (so if Yannick Bolasie publishes a snapchat of him making meatballs, and The Sun then does a story about it, that's 8 points). However, you can't get multiple points from the same category for the same incident (no matter how many Snapchats Yannick Bolasie sends, it's still only 5 points total from the social media category). Double points if the raw meat in question is a lamb chop. Any celebrity who is a chef by professional, has previously published recipes as either an amateur or professional, or is taking part in a televised cooking contest/show is disqualified from entering. If any of your celebrities die from salmonella, campylobacter or other uncooked-meat-related food poisoning, you lose 500 points.

Great film

Judith Jarvis Thomson, American philosopher, has reportedly died aged 91.

Jason Isaacs stole it.

Donnie Jr. tests positive for Covid. But, you know, this has nothing to do with the nonsense about wearing masks and maintaining social distance, that's just part of the left wing Covid hoax, right? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-55024888

Thoughts and prayers for Covid and their family

Charlie Hauck (IMDb), Emmy nominated writer/producer of Frasier, Maude and Home Improvement amongst others, has died aged 79. Obituaries: The Sun, Metro.

Francisco Franco stopped being the Generalísimo on this day 45 years ago, aged 82.

Rebecca More Sophie Anderson Alison Hammond

Could just as easily have featured in the Journalists or Activists thread. A remarkable and courageous person. I can only imagine the abuse, ridicule and outright hostility directed at someone undergoing gender reassignment in the early 1970s.

A nice list of ideas. Indeed, my 2nd choice has been picked by An Fear Beag. Dark Horse: Grim Up North.

More useful in a swimming pool.

That's what you get when you let A Chemist run a Deadpool

From whence did poor Cloris acquire this superfluous h? It makes her look like a diminutive of chlorine the poor thing. Stop laughing at the back @Clorox Bleachman

The Masterlist is up but entries are still permitted until tomorrow but films already taken are out of bounds and you cannot have the same three picks as another even if they are in another film together. Good luck all.

78 today.

Speaking of which, William Russell* is 96 today *not the basketball player.

My best purchase this year was a £20 Wii on eBay, which I modded to access the internet. I might sound like a boomer with a flip phone, but it's really all I need. I've got my money's worth many times over. £20 is also the most I'd be willing to fork out right now.

Where the fuck is the Nintendo Switch?

As soon as anybody says “snowflakes” or “facts don’t care about your feelings”, you know not to even bother with them.

Science has a few candidates: E.O. Wilson is 91, James Watson the DNA discoverer and racist is 92, and James Lovelock the pioneer of environmentalism and, er, cryogenics is 101. He surely goes next year unless he’s frozen himself. Politics, if he’s notable enough Mustafa Ben Halim was Prime Minister of Libya in the 1950s and is still going at 99, something of a national hero post-Gaddafi it seems. Again if she meets the requirements, Rachel Robinson aka Mrs Jackie Robinson is still going at 98, and has a record in her own right as a campaigner. And Ben Ferencz is another lifelong campaigner after being the youngest lead prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, and is now 100. Entertainment, looking at people who have been active well into later life but finally seem to have gone quiet. I have Bernard Cribbins, now 91, and Cleo Laine at 93.

The Masterlist Airport 77’ (Book) Lee Grant Michael Emmett Walsh Monte Markham The Age of Innocence (Toast)* Joanne Woodward Norman Lloyd Miriam Margolyes Marnie (The Old Lady) Tippi Hedren Bruce Dern Diane Baker Pulp Fiction (The Quim Reaper) John Travolta Christopher Walken Harvey Keitel Forget Paris (GCReptile)** Rush Limbaugh Paul Westphal Liz Sheridan Nobody Runs Forever (aka The High Commissioner) (Handrejka)* Christopher Plummer Derren Nesbitt Clive Revill Airport 1975 (MarkB4)* Nancy Olson Larry Storch Conrad Janis Oh God (AjlPosh) William Daniels Paul Sorvino Teri Garr The Wrestler (Spade Cooley) Necro Butcher The Blue Meanie John Zandic Death on the Nile (paddyfool) Angela Lansbury Maggie Smith Mia Farrow Psycho (1960) (Dying Probably)* Vera Miles Patricia Hitchcock Paul Jasmin The People Next Door (En Passant)** Hal Holbrook Cloris Leachman Nehemiah Persoff Half Moon Street (time) Michael Caine Ram John Holder Nadim Sawalha Willow (Bibliogryphon) Jean Marsh Val Kilmer Phil Fondarco The Boyfriend (YoungWillz)* Barbara Windsor Tommy Tune Brian Murphy Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (msc)* Russ Tamblyn Jane Powell Julie Newmar The Jackel (Grim Up North)* Sidney Poitier Leslie Phillips Larry King Quartet (Rover and Out)* Tom Courteney Trevor Peacock Gwyneth Jones The Wild Bunch (Captain Chorizo) Elsa Cordena Alfonso Arau L Q Jones Debbie Does Dallas (Great Uncle Bulgaria) Herschel Savage Robin Byrd Eric Edwards Father Came Too (The Daredevil) Leslie Phillips Stanley Baxter Kenneth Cope Sharkey’s Machine (Death by Arsenic) Henry Silva Earl Holliman Darryl Hickman Buona Sera Mrs Campbell (Torva Messor) Gina Lollabridgida Lee Grant Philippe Leroy Toy Story 4 (Perhaps)** Estelle Harris Betty White Mel Brooks Meet Me In St. Louis (The Old Crem) June Lockhart Margaret O’Brien Darryl Hickman Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Guy From The Future) Robert Wagner Burt Bacharach Jeanette Miller The Right Stuff (An Fear Beag)** Tom Dahlgren David Gulpilil Chuck Yeager All You Need Is Cash(1978) (Yorkshire Banker)** Jeannette Charles Henry Woolf Barry Cryer 29. Snow Dogs-2002 (Joe Moneypenny) Nichelle Nichols Bria Doyle-Murray Graham Greene