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Can we take some risks for 23? Like some possible yet young death: Post Malone/Doja Cat (27club), Elon Musk (controversy death over accident), Kanye West (controversy death over suicide), JCVD (overdose) Mike Tyson (illness) Putin/Zelensky (obvious)... Not the whole list but 2/3 to spice it up a little!

Ankica Tuđman dead at 96.

PBS released a new interview with her for the release of her new memoir. Touches very lightly on the PSP diagnosis. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/singer-linda-ronstadt-reflects-on-her-roots-in-new-book#transcript

Wendy Robie, American film and television actress who made her acting debut as Nadine Hurley in David Lynch's influential television series "Twin Peaks" and portrayed a villainous woman in the horror film "The People Under the Stairs", is 69 today. Elisabeth Shue, American film and television actress mainly known for appearing in films such as "The Karate Kid", "Cocktail", "Leaving Las Vegas", "The Saint", "Deconstructing Harry", "Hollow Man" and many others, is 59 today.

I know but I need an obit, cause she could have died last year too (after November 2021)...

New litterary Nobel Prize awarded to french author Annie Ernaux Who is 82. I recommand you the reading of Les Annees which I studied in class : wonderful book !

Tottenham Hotspur fitness coach Gian Piero Ventrone has died suddenly aged 61, from leukaemia.

Can't find owt online but... Is it possible he died because every time he tried describing his symptoms nobody understood what he said?

I'm a big fan of Wendy Robie, too! She was tremendous as the intense and tormented wife of Big Ed. And it was her debut as an actress. I like your taste, @Gooseberry Crumble.

Actress and Coronation Street legend Eileen Derbyshire, who played Emily Bishop for over 60 years , celebrates her 91st birthday today. A more recent picture here.

Lady Antonia Fraser might give you a Glasgow kiss if you think that.........

Back when they started devastating swathes of Britain's industrial heartlands under Maggie the Tories set about establishing job creation schemes for both youngsters and adults whereby people got a benefits boost and enjoyed placements where they could -sort of - do a real job and sort of practice doing a real job. Can't help thinking Truss is now the pinnacle of that scheme.

Good choice! Love Wendy Robie in Twin Peaks!

Probably when we've all died

In Kamchatka, on October 4, the last speaker of the Aleutian language in Russia, Gennady Yakovlev, died. https://knife.media/last-aleutian/

Another work of art from Cassetteboy:

I've previously suggested "Coal Miner's Rotter".

I don't understand her headline on the front page : is there any reference that I don't have ? I don't get it… There would have been so many catching headlines such as : "the devil got his due", "she won't come home (a dying woman)", "She got caught" or "End of the Lynn" for example…

Playwright Charles Fuller died at 83 years: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Pulitzer-Prize-Winner-Charles-Fuller-Passes-Away-at-83-20221004 He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1982 for A Soldier's Play, which explores the complex feelings of African Americans towards one another.

Should probably wait three days first:

Tom Clancy died on this day 9 years ago, aged 66. In 1984, Clancy published his debut novel, The Hunt for Red October, about a Soviet submarine captain going rogue and trying to defect to the United States. This novel also introduced his most famous character, Jack Ryan. It was adapted into a successful film in 1990, starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin. Clancy would write other best-selling novels in the '80s, such as Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. Beginning in 1998, Clancy would lend his name to several video game franchises such as Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, and Splinter Cell. Clancy died of heart failure about five years after suffering a heart attack.

On this day 12 years ago in 2010 American actor Tony Curtis ,whose career spanned six decades including part of the latter stages of the golden age of Hollywood, died aged 85. His first credited film role was in 'City across the river' in 1949- a film noir headlined by Thelma Ritter and Stephen McNally. But it wasn't really until 1957 when he starred in Sweet smell of success with Burt Lancaster and Susan Harrison, that he started to receive much more widespread recognition. Other films he starred include No Room for the groom (1952), Son of Ali Baba (1952) with Piper Laurie, World War two drama Kings go forth (1958) with Natalie Wood and Frank Sinatra, Spartacus (1960) with Kirk Douglas-which included a bathing scene between them that was deemed too homoerotic by the film censors implementing the Hollywood code and was hence heavily edited, 40 pounds of trouble 1962) with Suzanne Pleshette ,Larry Storch and Phil Silvers , the legendary Billy Wilder romantic comedy with Jack Lemmon, Nehemiah Persoff and of course Marilyn Monroe . Tony's career took a large dip in terms of the prominence of the roles he was offered but many film critics agreed his casting as The Boston Strangler in 1968 gave his career and his resume a much deserved boost. On later years career wise from the 1980s onwards bit parts in shows like The Fall guy ,Roseanne and made for television movies became his most regular work along with being interviewed by The Biography Channel for anecdotes about old Hollywood and magazine and broadcast interviews eating up his very colourful ranconteuring skills on anything connected to his era in Hollywood. For a while he was part of a Hollywood power couple-marrying Janet Leigh and fathering two daughters with her including actress Jamie Lee Curtis . He married six times in total, one marriage in 1993 only lasting one year. His final wife Jill Vandenberg was 45 years younger than him . Sadly one of his sons, Nicholas, died of a drugs overdose aged 23 in 1994. Tony himself previously struggled with alcoholism and cocaine addiction and was treated at the Betty Ford clinic. In his last photoshoot , in very poor health (COPD) and perhaps sensing the end was near, he asked photographer Andy Gotts for a photoshoot at home and said "I'm not in a good way at the moment but can I ask you one thing? Can you make me look like an icon just one more time? Less than six months before his death he rewrote his will and specifically named all of his children for the apparent specific purpose of intentionally disinheritaning all of them with no explanation and leaving his entire estate to his widow. Random fact he clashed heavily with Joan Collins when filming the tv series The Persuaders and called her a see you next Tuesday to her face after she allegedly held up filming repeatedly. He shocked the audience at the Hay Festival in 2009 when he recounted this tale full colourful language included ! It is a tale Joan Collins repeats herself with some variation in her Audience with Joan Collins theatre shows as I witnessed myself once!!

Suggested subtitle - Chuck Three's In Love

Nah, if nothing's getting done, it's time to confront them with the true horror of this.