YoungWillz

Pick for me in the DDP a year or two ago James W McCord, Watergate Burglar, died waaaay back in 2017: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12223765 Nice of them to tell us now....

Daniel Hanson gets a Times Obit: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/daniel-hanson-obituary-mm5wgfj6n

When Barr's microphone cut out on the announcement of the Mueller Report, I thought he was redacting his own speech! Anyhow, interesting that there is still speculation because he's making his speech before anyone (apart from Whitehouse and personal Trump counsel) have seen it. It sounds like there's damning evidence on obstruction, but Barr seems to imply that either Trump was too dumb or was so frustrated and under pressure he made decisions that were not intentionally criminal. White, elite privilege? Is it a matter of time that Barr also falls foul of the Trump firing machine, regardless of his obvious blind loyalty? Used to be mud stuck......

Rylan co-hosting It Takes Two with Zoe Ball. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6935461/Strictly-Come-Dancing-Rylan-Clark-Neal-join-forces-Zoe-Ball-Takes-Two.html I'm assuming she needs the help given her breakfast radio duties, but for God's sake, him? Sadly, he makes everything he appears in unwatchable. I decline to watch the spin off show henceforth.

Well, he's only gone and done it! Jim McColl, presenter of The Beechgrove Garden, is retiring. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-47963708 Failing grip in his hands, apparently. So difficult for a man at any age, that complaint.....

Beverley Craven back on tour after cancer treatment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47965394 Didn't even know she was ill. Shows how good I am at this...

Boxer, football hooligan and bit part actor in T2 Trainspotting Bradley Welsh, executed in shooting in Edinburgh: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/772964/breaking-edinburgh-shooting-trainspotting-2-bradley-welsh-chester-street-latest-crime

Two. No butter, ketchup. I could have gone for three, but that would have been rasher of me.

Lived on the edge today. Had a bacon sandwich for lunch.

Assuming he's not fallen under the radar.... Arnold Yarrow is 99 today!

Report of the death of US novelty songwriter Kent Harris at 88: https://www.soultracks.com/story-kent-harris-dies Cops and Robbers by Bo Diddley and Shopping for Clothes by The Coasters are examples of his work

I'm still waiting for a special someone to get a first hit.....

Report of the death of Winifred Jordan (nee Jeffrey) who competed for Britain at the 1948 Games in the 100m. She was 99.

Looks like M6 Tolled picked the wrong McEnery brother. Former husband of Stephanie Beacham and theatre, tv and film actor John McEnery has died according to this death notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/232666/mcenery Film credits include Nicholas and Alexandra, The Krays and When Saturday Comes. TV work includes several Dickens adaptations, The Buddha Of Surburbia, The Bill and Silent Witness. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568491/

Report of the death of former Tory MP Roger Moate:

I'm sure the Victoria and Albert museum is grateful for his donation, but.... Is Elton being pushed around by Furnish in a wheelchair? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47947885

Cross-posting Schindler's death report.

According to this Ambrose Schindler, Winkie Guard and Tin Man Stunt Double In The Wizard Of Oz, died in December 2018 at 101: https://old.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/bdtkua/ambrose_amby_schindler_rose_bowl_mvp_and_one_of/

@Spade_Cooley Gene Wolfe's Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/16/gene-wolfe-science-fiction-author-dies-aged-87

One of the few things I had on this forum.... Only fair that, having beaten msc's record in the Hare's Pool, he is the one to announce the loss by me of this one! Well done Bou!

Wait a minute @RadGuy, she's your pick? Look before you rant!

Well someone picked her for the DDP, and they will not be surprised by the points from the QO: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/8872286/georgia-engel-dead-at-70-everybody-loves-raymond-and-the-mary-tyler-moore-show/

If true, is Frank Maffei still about? He'd be the sole survivor from the group that had their first UK top 10 in 1958....

US Skylab astronaut Owen Garriott reported dead by Buzz: