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  1. 6 points
    Since it’s after midnight in the UK, welcome to the club Al Jaffee, legendary Mad Magazine contributor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jaffee
  2. 4 points
    So he hates racists as well as blacks. Covering all fields.
  3. 3 points
    Saddening really. Read she put off going to the doctors because of the pandemic. Going to be millions more like her sadly.
  4. 2 points
    Fair enough, but maybe don't spam the thread with a half-dozen posts.
  5. 2 points
    In terms of chances of a third wave. Worth noting that as of yesterday - England has vaccinated around 43% of its population, Scotland and Wales just over 33%. Whereas Italy is at 10%. This is for the first jab which lowers hospital/death chances by 80% or what not - obviously second jab numbers are lower in all of the above. We may see further spikes but we're quite far ahead on vaccinating the public compared to near neighbours...
  6. 2 points
    Larry Storch, US actor and comedian. OK, not a marquee name but as soon as you see him, it's 'oh yeah him'. Made his name back in the sixties in 'F Troop' and numerous television appearances, 'Columbo' , 'The Persuaders'. Recently updated his Facebook page with a pic of him getting his second jab for Covid-19, so he's still cracking on at 98 years old...
  7. 2 points
    Be a month on Tuesday since he was admitted
  8. 2 points
    I am serious. An international force should invade Brazil and depose their government. I think Bolsonaro is an arch-demon walking the earth. They let the virus run wild and it's only a question of time until a mutation is created that makes all the vaccines useless.
  9. 2 points
    Sally Grossman, the widow of one-time Bob Dylan manager Albert Grossman and who appeared on the cover of Dylan's Bringing it All Back Home album, has died. She was 81. https://bestclassicbands.com/sally-grossman-obituary-widow-albert-grossman-3-12-21/
  10. 2 points
    So's the whole crowd watching my encounter with Markb4
  11. 2 points
    Carmel Quinn (wiki), Irish entertainer on Broadway, U.S. television and radio, dead at 95. A DDP pick.
  12. 1 point
    Some news about Trintignant at the Cesar yesterday : he made a rare and short appearance by a video, doesn’t look so bad but frail as expected. Quite happy and surprised to see him again. Hope it’s not his last apperance at the Cesar but think it might will
  13. 1 point
    Raoul Casadei, the king of liscio, was one of the main figures in this particular type of Italian folk music. He died this morning after contracting a virus...I don't remember the name at the moment...
  14. 1 point
    How on Earth has he not left hospital or snuffed it yet? He looked like he was a stubbed toe away from turning to dust after his last visit.
  15. 1 point
    It's been over three weeks since we had a major high profile celebrity death. The last high profile celebrity death was Rush Limbaugh on February 17. Yes, we've had celebrity deaths, but nothing real high profile in a while. Also, I think 2021 is already proving to be a much better year, and I predicted that we will have a lot less celebrity deaths. At least in the United States, the pandemic appears to be on the wane, and doctors are now saying things can get back to normal as early as APRIL, and definitely by summer. Right now, many states have lifted all restrictions and have even lifted mask mandates. Many offices are reopening. A lot of my friends who have been working from home are ordered to go back to the office full time. We've had a ton of celebrities who had brushes with death this year and survived, including Dr. Dre, Tiger Woods and Ashley Judd. All had near death experiences and survived. All were almost swallowed by the jaws of death. Could their recovery mirror 2021? If this were 2020, all three would have died and joined the ranks of Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Boseman, and Naya Rivera. If 2020 was the year of death, 2021 is the year of recovery and comebacks... And 2022 will be the year of hedonism and good times... Maybe some force out there is saying, "okay, we killed enough young celebrities. I will spare Tiger Woods and Ashley Judd, and hope humanity can follow their steps and move on the path towards recovery." Also, New Jersey just legalized weed. Fans can now attend sporting events in New York. Theaters in West End will open soon, and Broadway is likely to follow... So no matter what, 2021 is already a better year.
  16. 1 point
    If she fails to get a QO, this will only be my second List of the Lost. The first was Leon Bibb in 2015.
  17. 1 point
    Now that this door has been opened, let’s kick it in! But where the fuck else is one supposed to post a NASA engineer? Kenneth C. Kelly, an electronics engineer whose antenna designs contributed to the race to the moon, made satellite TV and radio possible and helped NASA communicate with Mars rovers and search for extraterrestrials, has died. The black 92-year-old also worked to erase race barriers in the Navy, in California housing and on the newspaper comics pages. Kelly had Parkinson's disease before his death on Feb. 27. Kelly was awarded more than a dozen patentsfor innovations in radar and antenna technology. SC
  18. 1 point
    I am always open to being surprised but I believe there is more chance of you or Handrejka going to a Dr Who convention than him! He said a decade ago the sight of anything to do with Dr Who makes him furious and sick. In short - Haisman and Lincoln created the Yeti and Brigadier in Dr Who, so were asked to create robots that could be the new Daleks. (Read - never seen again.) The producer at the time - a useless chap called Derrick Sherwin - saw gold dust in the Quarks (aforementioned robots you've never heard of) and did a deal with TV Comics for their use without asking the writers. This led to shitloads of merch for which the royalties went to the producer instead. It caused a massive controversy at the time and was a major headache for the BBC which Lincoln equates to losing work as well (1968-9). As a full circle bit, here's Mervyn Haisman on why he stopped working with Henry Lincoln in the early 70s...
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    Doesn't appear to be much middle ground with British actors - either they die young-ish or they are around forever! And whilst I said he was grumpy, tbf, Lincoln was screwed over for substantial royalties due to an internal BBC dispute in the 1960s and has never gotten over it His co-writer at the time, the late Mervyn Haisman, was more of a live and let live type willing to forgive as long as he got paid in the future, whereas Henry Lincoln is very much a "I shall forgive you over my dead body!" When Dan Brown borrowed the Da Vinci Code plot for his book, he kept out of the lawsuit, and interviews at the time had it as yet another chip on his shoulder. But given circumstances, maybe fair enough!
  20. 1 point
    A few old timers I've stumbled onto researching who *appear* to be alive. Elizabeth Benson (born 1926) - a Fawlty Towers and Only Fools and Horses guest star in a long career! Referred to as retired in a 2018 Where Are They Now blog on OFAH guests, but trying to find out more is hurt by her common name - so common another actress big on Twitter has it in fact! Michael Godley (born 1925) - Another actor who did the tour of popular UK TV - Poirot, Morse, A Very British Coup among his credits. Retired within the last decade. Doesn't show up in the BMD but could be a stagename. There was a Michael A Godley who died in 2015 but reverse engineering that provides 3 people who were all born on the south coast a long way from Sheffield! Neville Phillips (born 1927) - Only retired in 2015, sort of a go to actor if you need a vicar or diplomat. Again a common name (and born in South Africa). I'm wary that absence of proof (of death) is not proof of absence (of death) after the Sopel incident, but for the time being I can't find anything on them being no more and would have felt they had CVs worthy of a mention when they did go. (But then, I thought that of David Fisher and too many other names!)
  21. 1 point
    Or even better, don’t post about her at all?
  22. 1 point
    Yeah and telling us how tough they have it from their mansion while people all over the world are dying on their own separated from loved ones and in financial turmoil. Yeah I hear race relations are pretty idyllic in the states which is why they went.
  23. 1 point
    Just to make it three in a row on the 2021 list, gone for Murray Walker.
  24. 1 point
    I suppose Paul Chelimo (Kenyan born, Silver Medallist 2016), Kerron Clement (Trinidadian born, Gold Medallist 2016), Morolake Akinosun (Nigerian born, Gold Medallist 2016), all part of Team USA, also fall under your disdain? Also since you seem incapable of a google search, Christine Ohuruogu was born in London.
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