YoungWillz

She's this year's Chuck Berry for me! Wasn't she working in fucking Macdonalds or summat last year? It's the Black Hills of Dakota for my score.

Doris Kappels H-off and the Day has come for me and the Committee to have 2 hits. YW - 2; DL - 2

Doris Day takes me to two hits in the pop category. Waiting on recently widowed Pat Boone there and Belafonte in the Soul/Blues category.

Dafuq!

Walden on Weekend World was fascinating though. It was one of the few programmes a truly young me would tune into. Could be a bit sycophantic to people he agreed with, but he knew the power of silence in an interview. Emily Maitlis and Andrew Marr and the rest could learn the value of not interrupting your political interviewee. Let your question be good and let your words hang in the air. Let your respectful tone sucker your guest into believing you are trying to be on their side and allow them to hang themselves high on the gibbet of their own folly. He really was very good at what he did.

So I set my teams up to topple. Then 2019 came along.....

Was thinking about doing a list of former First Ladies around the world. Could be a big job. Meantime, is Graça Machel the only living former First Lady of two countries? By which I mean a sovereign state that's a member of the United Nations in its own right (the "Richard Osman Gambit").

Jenna Welch, former DDP pick, died Friday: https://www.today.com/news/jenna-bush-hager-honors-grandma-namesake-jenna-welch-who-passed-t153994 http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2018/celebs_H.html#hawkij

Former Labour MP and Weekend World presenter Brian Walden dead: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-brian-walden-dead-86-15419227

And cross-posting here, seeing as I am here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peggy-lipton-actress-mod-squad-twin-peaks-dies-at-72-1209893

Peggy Lipton cross-posted here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peggy-lipton-actress-mod-squad-twin-peaks-dies-at-72-1209893

Sometime Pogues producer Stan Brennan reported dead: Pretty good source, but it is a Twitter report.

My Hare's Pool begs to differ.....

The death of Allene Roberts reported here means that the entire cast of The Red House (1947) and The Sign Of The Ram (1948) are definitely dead. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0730815/ Two annoying details: Margaret Tracy is not listed as dead on IMDB for The Sign Of The Ram. However, she was the mother of fairly recently deceased Peggy Cummins, and as it turns out Wiki states Margaret was born in the 19th century and died in 1973. So I think we are safe there. The entire cast of the Lawrence Tierney movie The Hoodlum (1951) would be dead but for the lack of a traceable obit for one Richard Barron, who had a credited role and seems to have stopped acting in the late 1950s. Who knows? Otherwise, there's a number of bit part uncredited roles in her other films who are probably deceased but they'd need proper detective work.

Lawdy. Winnie Jordan Richard Green Karol Modzelewski Liz Howe John Singleton.

Report regarding the death of Mary Stopes-Roe: Pretty good source but then again, it's just a Twitter report.

Not sure I'd bracket Starr with Manning and Davidson. Starr was from a music background initially, so was exposed to a wider circle of people and he was clever not to push the rather blatant narrow "comedy" of the latter two. Interestingly, if you watch episodes of things like The Two Ronnies (oh how beloved they were!) from the early 1970s, the open sexism and racism would take your breath away today. Times were different, really different.

Everyone is different, everyone's sense of humour has a slight twist to it. Josie leaves me cold, not to say many others do find her hilarious. I will say imo she's not that great on Just A Minute, you'd have thought she'd have picked up summat from Paul Merton after all these years. Back to Slattery, slurring words, forgetful and fat. Proposing redo of WLIIA at Edinburgh this year, not sure how grand he'll be at improv given his performance tonight. Josie's going and he is trying to get Mike McShane. Those thinking of picking him in the future might want to invest in tickets.

He's on This Week tonight. Now. I gather.

Well one to watch it's a Twitter report. Bears to be from her husband (mentioned by name on Wiki and IMDB) and let's face it, who on earth would take a lesser known personality/character actress and hoax it up? We may never know the truth in the post truth society we live in....

Still watching Question Time, but caught sight of this. I will say that by the time I was seeing Freddie Starr in the 1970s, he was already old hat. His impressions were out of date and his jokes were a bit grating even for the time. I will also say, however that he was a master of slapstick, and should have concentrated on that. Very much marmite cult. In any event, an institution, so RIP.

List of game show hosts I have appeared with on the telly: Jeremy Beadle (1948-2008) DEAD. William G Stewart (1933-2017) DEAD. Richard Madeley (1956) Paul Coia (1955) Danny Baker (1957)

Copycat Fragrances on the DDP? Beyoncé Heat = Beyond Death. Calvin Klein Eternity = Calvin Klein For All Eternity. Elizabeth Taylor = Dead Since 2011. And of course Old Spice = Old Corpse.

Cunto's Telegraph Obit: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/05/08/sir-david-mcnee-glasgow-born-commissioner-metropolitan-police/

Report of the death of Monty Lister aged 92, BBC Merseyside radio presenter who did the first radio interview with the Moptops: