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Wally Campo dead at 99.

Buzz Aldrin, the famous American astronaut who made history when he was one of the three members of the successful Apollo 11 space mission, and the second person to walk on the Moon, is 93 today. José Luis Garci, the admired and sensational Spanish author, critic, film and television director, producer, screenwriter and television presenter, one of the best Spanish filmmakers of his generation and one of the greatest of all time, is 79 today. José Luis Garci was the winner of the first Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for a Spanish production.

Surely if you want to search for Crosby's death, you'd use Bing.

Tom Baker is 89. Highly likely he's going to be on the list within the next five years.

Spiderman's Aunt, actually

Inquest into his death reveals that Leslie Jordan died from “cardiac dysfunction” and was dead before his car crashed. Now, I’m no doctor but if they’re certain that he was dead before crashing then it sounds like his aorta may have ruptured, in which case he likely died instantly (Hollywood style if you like) so he wouldn’t have even known he was a goner. At least he didn’t suffer in any way.

Richard Nixon, Kurt Cobain, Jackie Kennedy, John Candy, Bill Hicks and Kim Il-sung from 1994 Jerry Garcia, Selena, Dean Martin and of course the assassination of Yitzah Rabin from 1995 Francois Mitterand, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Kelly and Marcello Mastroianni from 1996 Deng Xiaoping, Jacques Cousteau, Robert Mitchum and Jimmy Stewart from 1997 (up until late August), with the last two less than two months before Diana.

One thing I have observed over the not even three weeks that 2023 has been thus far comprised of is the sudden rise in notable deaths, or at least deaths of people I have heard of/common death pool picks. While I cannot be sure about the main list, which still sits at zero out of fifty deaths, 2023 could be a kind of enema as Gooseberry Crumble has been predicting for the last while and a half. In the last 19 days, Frank McGarvey, Gianluca Vialli, Adam Rich, Lisa Marie Presley, King Constantine II of Greece, George Pell, Jeff Beck, Robbie Knievel, Lucile Randon, David Crosby, Fay Weldon, David Sutherland, Ronald Blythe, Gina Lollobrigda, Carole Cook, Tatjana Patitz, etc. have all passed away. The ones named there total 16. In 19 days. 2023 has so far proven itself to be a major killer of celebrities, some expected, some shocking. I cannot predict the future, so I'm not going to prophecise the next 11 and a bit months, but it seems that Dead Pooling could be in for a record-breaking year.

Maybe. He wasn’t really a controversial drop through. He didn’t seem very unwell. Where does this rank on quickest death after being dropped? 19 days can’t have been beaten many times if at all. Could it be the quickest ever?

2023 is going to be the year when every DL drop dies.

If the Nobel Prize Committee had an award for Best Joke of the Year, you've won it, sir!

Last year, there had been 24 hits by the 19th.

His publicists seem pretty mum in every article I've read so far. I doubt anyone saying they know the cause for sure isn't just guessing. The NYT obit indicates he died on the evening of the 18th. Given he appeared as active as usual yesterday, it seems hard to believe he would simultaneously have been dying of elongated COVID.

57 Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love +4 45 Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart -6 42 Madness – House of fun 40 The Jam – Town called Malice 39 Men at Work – Down Under 36 David Bowie – Let's Dance 29 Flying Pickets - Only You 26 Duran Duran – Is There Something I Should Know? 26 Culture Club – Do you really want to hurt me? 26 The Police – Every breath you take 23 Eddy Grant – I Don't Wanna Dance 18 KC & the Sunshine Band - Give It Up 17 Irene Cara — Fame 03 Spandau Ballet – True Lack of taste knows no bounds. Total eclipse of the earholes - bleauch.

Where did you get his height from? And what figure did you find?

I smell a rat. Until Lady Cecilia Bartholomew confirms I’m calling it a hoax.

We got to see Iron Maiden

@WEP - Al Gore and Eugene Francis Fama been added as replacements.

Glad it’s been a welcome distraction! Hope all goes well tomorrow. Take it easy.

OJ Simpson

maybe we'll see him at his daughter's funeral

Morphe Cosmetics is closing all its U.S. locations. The company, founded in 2008 and once valued at $2 billion, had been partnered with YouTube fashion influencers Jeffree Star and James Charles, among others, whose fame has turned to infamy, for various reasons. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/morphe-cosmetics-closes-us-retail-stores-employee-shock-rcna64309

I close friend of mine is a professional contact of Chomsky's . He agrees with my assessment that he is in decline and has even said he thinks he should retire for the sake of his legacy as is no longer at his best at all.He has also told me that he is responding less to correspondence and when he does there is an uncharacteristic lack of intellectual engagement and criticality than you would have expected 3 years ago.

Found this list of Austrian movie stars: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_österreichischer_Filmschauspieler Some of the famous ones who are still alive: Senta Berger (1941) Waltraud Haas (1927) Lotte Ledl (1930) Gerlinde Locker (1938) Erni Mangold (1927) Johanna Matz (1932) Christine Schuberth (1944) Nadja Tiller (1929) Bibiana Zeller (1928) Sybil Danning (1947) Dagmar Koller (1939) Klaus-Maria Brandauer (1943) Freddy Quinn (1931) Otto Schenk (1931) Peter Weck (1930) Helmut Berger (1940) Franz Buchrieser (1937) Karl Merkatz (1930) Lukas Resetarits (1947) Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) Peter Simonischek (1946) Marianne Mendt (1945) Marianne Nentwich (1942) Elisabeth Orth (1936) Christine Ostermayer (1936) Elisabeth Trissenaar (1944) Heidelinde Weis (1940)

Biggest misses are Rene Angelil, Daisy Berkowitz and Val Kilmer.