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Philip Johnson- architect, closeted homosexual, and former nazi sympathizer has died at the age of 98. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...ot/obit_johnson

Let me apologize in advance for tooting my own horn. As you can see I predicted Brando's death two weeks ago (after seeing a magazine pic in which he looked old and very overweight.) I'll toot Brando's horn now: His performance in Streetcar Named Desire is the best I've ever seen and Last Tango in Paris might be second. Check em out if you haven't seen them. When people say a performance is 'electric' this is what they're talking about.

1. Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh 2. Barbara Streisand 3. Jerry Bruckheimer (+so many others that I can't seem to come up with right now)

Johnny .. It sounds like he doesn't have much time left: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5218974/ (And speaking of guitarists, I'm surprised- and pleased- to find that this website is smart enough not to bet against Keith Richards. That expression about nuclear war and cockroaches was invented for keith, I think.)

B.B. King is 80 years old, weighs 300+ pounds, and has diabetes. Solomon Burke is 68 years old and looks like he must weigh 400 lbs. And Marlon Brando's been mentioned already but he's also a member of the very rare 80/300 club. If you think about it (which I'm sure most of you here do) you hardly ever see seriously overweight old people. And it's not because old people don't eat a lot- it's because people who eat a lot rarely get the opportunity to grow old.