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HARRY’S ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW GRIM 5/50 25th April 2023 Film, music and civil rights icon Harry Belafonte has died to give a heavyweight success to The Crowdsourced Deathlist. Belafonte’s legendary career began in the 1940s as a New York club singer, but a friendship with Miles Davis and Charlie Parker launched his pop career. It wasn’t until Calypso in 1956 that he achieved world wide fame, selling more than 1 million copies that year, and launching Day-O and Jamaica Farewell on the public conscience. His musical career stretched over seventy years, during which time he worked with Dylan, Sinatra, the Beatles, and, most importantly of all, Kermit the Frog. He also sang during the inauguration of President Kennedy. His film career was equally important. Carmen Jones was one of the first American films co-starred by two lead black actors. In 1950s America, he took on interracial romance in Island in the Sun, and racism and crime in Odds Against Tomorrow. But while he became a favourite of Hollywood subversives like Otto Preminger, Belafonte was not afraid to call out his friends – he turned down Preminger’s offer of Porgy and Bess, citing it being a racial stereotype. In recent years he appeared in BlackKkKlansman, the Spike Lee film. Yet his humanitarian career dwarfed even those solid legacies. An protégé at an early age of Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte had already been blacklisted by the McCarthy witch hunts in the 1950s, before he became friends and allies with Martin Luther King. He raised money for King’s marches, he bailed King out of jail, he promoted civil rights on every platform he stood. He was an early public voice against South African apartheid, a lifelong promoter of UNICEF, and a frequent critic of hawk government policies. When told his views on the Bush government were unpatriotic, he said that dissent is crucial to democracy. Harry Belafonte was ninety-six.

MERRY FUNERAL, MR LAWRENCE 4/50 28th March 2023 Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has sadly died after a long battle with cancer, to give The Crowdsourced Deathlist a melancholic success. Sakamoto made his career as part of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, the 70s electronic band. He died weeks after his fellow bandmate Yukihiro Takahashi. He moved equally free in classical and film composing circles, and his opus, the score for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, won him the Oscar. In David Bowie’s iconoclastic World War Two tale of forbidden gay love in a prisoner of war camp, Sakamoto, in his acting debut, played the role of Bowie’s romantic interest with a noble gravitas, while refusing to whitewash the Japanese war experience. It was a complex role vastly more experienced actors would have struggled with. From there, Sakamoto was the composer for the opening ceremony of the Barcelona Olympics, gained the first Japanese number one instrumental track, and his film work included The Last Emperor and The Revenant. He was also an outspoken defender of musicians getting proper royalties for their work, and a renowned anti-nuclear activist in his homeland. Even as he slowly lost a lengthy battle with cancer, he continued his life long environmentalism campaigning from his own bedroom, sending letters in support of various movements. A winner of the Oscar, the Grammy, the Golden Globe, the BAFTA, as well as having acting acclaim, and international chart success, the widely popular Ryuichi Sakamoto packed a lot into his 71 years on the planet, and we mourn his loss.

CHAIM TOPOLS 3/50 8th March 2023 Popular Israeli heavyweight actor Topol has died, after a period of ill health, to provide The Crowdsourced Deathlist with another success. Topol had gained a stellar reputation as a theatre and musicals actor in the 1960s, touring with with the Batzal Yarok, before moving to cinema in the mid-60s. His breakthrough role was that of Tevye, star of Fiddler on the Roof, which he played on Broadway and in the 1971 film. His musical background allowed the full baritone of If I Was a Rich Man to liven the screen. This gave him international recognition and he would take on important roles in Flash Gordon and the James Bond flick For Your Eyes Only. Although, in the latter, the reveal Topol is actually the good guy all along would work better if the reveal wasn’t just him telling us! He remained a TV and film regular, but it was the stage that he loved most, playing at all the great theatres in a variety of roles, from Tevye to Shakespeare, until his health declined. This was his first appearance on the list.

This forum: Person 1 - Asks a one line question about old movie/rock stars/etc Person 2 - Here is a 300 person list to answer you, carefully annotated with dates and information. I am fully aware I resemble this remark!

13/05/2023 53 Elvis Presley – Rock-A-Hula Baby/Can´t Help Falling In Love 50 Elvis Presley – Return To Sender 47 B. Bumble & The Stingers – Nut Rocker +4 46 The Tornados – Telstar 39 The Beatles – I Want To Hold Your Hand 36 The Beatles – From me to you 21 Elvis Presley – (You're The) Devil In Disguise 21 Cliff Richard & The Shadows – The Young Ones 19 The Shadows – Wonderful Land 17 The Shadows – Foot Tapper 11 Elvis Presley – She’s not you -6 10 Cliff Richard & The Shadows – Summer Holiday 10 Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas – Bad To Me 10 The Shadows – Dance On

American actor known for his strong, silent screen persona and understated acting style Gary Cooper died on this day 62 years ago, aged 60. Cooper began his career as a film extra and stunt rider. He appeared as the Virginian and became a movie star in 1929 with his first sound picture, The Virginian. In the early 1930s, he expanded his heroic image to include more cautious characters in adventure films and dramas such as A Farewell to Arms (1932) and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, as well as an Academy Honorary Award in 1961.

My personal Eurovision scores: 12 Ukraine (honestly, an absolute banger) 10 Austria 8 Germany 7 Finland 6 Moldova 5 Belgium 4 Australia 3 Norway 2 United Kingdom 1 France

Last CNAC pilot Moon Fun Chin dead at 110.

I always thought Moon River was sung by a woman and then in KOS game i find it was no1 sung by a man (Andy Williams). Doing deeper dive I see Audrey Hepburn sang it and also Frank Sinatra and now i'm even more confused. Also why have I ever thought it was a James Bond soundtrack?

I was never that much of a football fan but honestly it's now so much all about whichever human rights abusing semi-dictatorship buys which club for sportswashing. Harder to care than ever.

Imagine what Chelsea fans must be feeling ! They’ve just lost against Arsenal and are 12th with 39 points, which means they won’t qualify for an European competition next year ! This had not happened to them since 1996 !

Updated for the death of Belafonte. He was the most notable surviving sitter for Van Vechten. That accolade now belongs to Leontyne Price.

Yeah, all those absolute fucking idiots, travelling 100s of miles to unfurl ENIC out banners and chant 'Levy Out'. No wonder we are an absolute fucking shit show.

Last game of the season Full Time Fort William 4-0 St. Duthus

Boy George is 61.

Recently-exonerated actor Johnny Depp is 59.

Kanye West is 45 today

Ben Chaplin and Paul Bettany are one person for me as well.

Doesn't look too bad, great to see her dressed in classic "just come out as lesbian in her second year at uni but doesn't want to make a fuss about it" attire:

Jack Harris, one of the partners in the first same-sex marriage in Dallas, dies

75 year anniversary of the moment Had coffin makers rubbing their hands in glee.

Robert Wadlow, the tallest human ever, died 75 years ago (7/15/1940). I guess you could say his record still stands. SC

Thirty years ago today Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira died when the French Government bombed the Rainbow Warrior in a New Zealand harbour.

Oooh David, stopmessinabout! Thanks for the info, and away to the Carry On thread with these posts, Matron.