Life Is Beautiful

hey Sean, don't you know that any allegation is a fact? and don't you know that everyone nowadays is guilty until proven otherwise? Seriously, as I scroll down Twitter feed, Natalie Wood becomes younger and younger at the time of the "incident": "Are we really honoring Kirk Douglas who raped Natalie Wood when she was 16?" "Is Hollywood really forgetting the fact that Kirk Doulgas raped 15 year-old Natalie Wood, like omigash really?" "OH HELL NAW WE'RE NOT HONORING NO KIRK DOUGLAS WHO RAPED POOR NATALIE WOOD, WHO WAS 13 YEAR OLD!!!"

I thought this thread needed some CZJ, no need to thank me. Also, I really don't mean to be disrespectful, but did anyone actually understand Kirk's speech last night? https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/950198119932706816 Here's the vid.

Trust me, you won't be that lucky.

I don't know about 110, but I think it's fair to say that she will beat Luise Rainer's record and become the oldest Academy Award winner in any category.

As a movie buff, I felt the same way about Manoel de Oliveira. He always seemed so "eternal", and for as long as he continued to live, he seemed to defy the notion that people eventually die... Also, the fact that he was still making movies at 106 made him look not human.

Question for the veterans: Who was the "quickest" Deathlist hit?

Dude I don't think this is the right forum for you, and I say that with all the non-respect possible.

Well, technically, THIS is the first death of 2018.

Insert (wow I don't know her! how dumb and non-British I must be!) comment.

We need an Ideas And Possibilities For 2018 vs. Who Should Be On The 2018 Deathlist? vs. Our 2018 deathlist poll.

Dick Van Dyke star Rose Marie dies at 94.

Happy birthday, Mr. Lee. Half of Twitter now is: "I saw Stan Lee trending and almost had a heart attack" followed by some unfunny Marvel quip.

On this day, both Presidents Truman (1972) and Ford (2006) died. If Bush Sr. were to day between tomorrow and New Year's Eve, he will be the president to die latest in the calendar year.

deadsox you should fix your sarcasm detector ASAP.

I say it's a toss up between the 90 year old rocker and the 90 year old fucker.

If you think that's all what Hefner did, you must've missed a lot of coverage.

That's quite a beautiful surprise, because my source said: ""I swear this is it, no more," he wrote in the tour program for his run of 70th birthday shows in 2015. "I know I've been threatening retirement for the last 50 years, but I didn't think I'd ever really want to stop. I love what I do and always have done, but over the last few decades I’ve found what I was always really looking for, a loving family who love me just the way I am, which means I can relax and rest when I need to, and more and more I treasure the beauty of that." It's nice to see him change his mind. I think now I'll drop him for another one of the "much mentioned" people.

OK, with only 7 days left to next year I think it's time to post my list: Staying: (for now) 1: George H.W. Bush: I think Bush the elder might be the Deathlist numero uno next year. In two terms, Obama never had to worry about a presidential funeral but Trump might deal with one (even two) 2: Leah Bracknell: 3rd-rate poetry and Shamanism vs. lung cancer. She could have been number 1 if only anyone knew who she was 3: Kirk Douglas: no apparent physical problems except for the fact that he is 101 years young. Sick dancing moves for a centenarian. May or may not have a fling with CZJ (I think we just discovered the secret to old age) 4: Billy Graham: HOW IS HE STILL ALIVE!!! 5: Pope Benedict: only brought up these days to discuss this weird "two living Popes" thing, or to state how "serenly fading" and "calmly dimming" he is, which is all fancy Vatican talk for "he looks like death" 6: Prince Philip: several health problems. Has been surprisingly quiet for such a narcissist loud-mouth 7: Bob Dole: see Prince Philip 8: Nobby Stiles: quiet for several years now and a very sad ending 9: Valerie Harper: MTM is waiting in heaven, hopefully at the lesbian pool 10: Herman Wouk: selling your house at 101 years old is a sign that you have giving up on life, which is sad because he could do a mean Albus Dumbledore Next category is people with less worrying health issues but which are too big to drop: 11: Queen Elizabeth: God Save the Queen Another Spot Next Year 12: Jimmy Carter: Will probably live to 100, but he'll stay because he was the 39th US president. What a malaise. To quote the Simpsons: "Jimmy Carter: old, wrinked, useless." 13: Olivia de Havilland: Will probably live to 110, but she'll stay. Still would 14: Betty White: slowed down a lot these days, still would 15: Vera Lynn: We'll Meet Agaaaain, Next Year. Still would 16: Stan Lee: Expect another Deathlist cameo 17: Robert Mugabe: It was his way or Zimbabwe. Is probably laughing his way to the bank by now. 18: Hosni Mubarak: I keep forgetting that he has cancer. Too big and too old and too evil to drop 19: Desmond Tutu: Yep, I changed my mind on him. I think we are underrating how big of a name he is. Which lives us with 6 spots, I call these the "interchangeables" 20: Jill Gascoigne: could linger for a few years but her quietness is worrying. 21: Lord Carrington: I have how idea who he is, but I picture him as Sir Buzzkillington from Family Guy, except much older and much duller. Oh well, he's here and he's 98 22: Pierre Cardin: dear Pierre, you made me pay 35 € for an awful shirt that doesn't even fit, I hope bad things happen to you 23: Emperor Akihito: If you have to keep any of the "more healthy but still sick" picks, better him than Sandy Whatshisface 24: Leslie Phillips: gotta keep the British quota going 25: Perez Javier de Whocares: the word "yawn" if it became a person Now with the new/returning: 1: John McCain: self-explanatory 2: Dilip Kumar: In exceptionally-terrible shape. Marlon Brando meets Apu (or the skinny Marlon Brando for the PC people). I dare you to think of an important actor who is older than him and who isn't named Kirk Douglas 3: Artie Lange: the poster boy of "Say No to Drugs". How he made it to 50, outliving a plethora of younger and much, much more healthier comedians (Patrice O'Neal, Greg Giraldo, Ralphie May...) is a proof that life does not make sense 4: Henry Kissinger: As an influential politican, he is easily more important than half of the US living presidents. Still has a sharp mind but I saw a recent interview of his and you couldn't make up half of what he was saying. DO NOT MISS HIM 5: Jacques Chirac: See Henry Kissinger 6: Valery Giscard d'Estaing: With the Brexit and Catalonia thingies and his involvment with the whole EU idea, he looks destined for a week of covfefe 7: Yoko Ono: Even Mark David Chapman would find her latest public appearance heatbreaking. She doesn't look long for this world. All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise 8: Monica Vitti: 10 years (!) have passed since the last bit of news about her. 10 WHOLE YEARS. Sad ending to a once terrific actress 9: Gerd Muller: poor guy. Perhaps the greatest number 9 in the history of the beautiful game. 10: Pelé: the greatest number 10 and the greatest anything in football. Looked terrible for years now. If the Committe miss him they might as well shut down this website 11: Little Richard: Another must. An incalculable influence on that whole rock and roll fad, coupled with an incalculable number of health issues. Getting ready to Rip it Up. 12: Pope Francis: Et tu Francis? 13: Steven Hawking: they have to start considering him. Too big and he can't live forever with his condition 14: Eric Clapton: very frail, wheelchair-bound and retired for a couple of years now. but Nobody Knows You When You're Out and Down. Soon will be crying Tears in Heaven (I have a couple more of these) Edit: I was wrong, he still has another tour coming up in 2018 14: Olivia Newton-John: poor gal, She's the One that the Committee Wants 15: Barbara Bush: The only thing keeping us from seeing how terrible Babs looks is the fact that George looks worse. Expect a Notebook scenario. 16: Rosalynn Carter: the Committe love their first ladies and she is 90 after all. 17: Bernard Tapie: "Je ne suis pas mourant (I am not dying)" is exactly what a dying person would say @LeahBracknell 18: Amanda Bynes: declining mentally, drug problems, hospitalization. Sad to think that she hadn't had a starring role in 10 years 19: Dave Bartholomew: the oldest rocker to ever live. Would be a shame to lose him but I doubt he'll go on for much. Wheelchair-bound since at least 2007. 20: Jean-Luc Godard: "Smoking kills" said the tv ad as Monsieur Godard, 87, lighted his 5th cig that evening, while filming pretentious artsy-fartsy "cinéma vérité" Which leaves us with five spots, I will trust the much more experienced other posters and post the most mentioned ones: 21: Clive James: this Clive James fellow keep being mentioned repeatedly here, I'll trust you on this one 22: Morgan Tsvangirai: very big name. Mugabe minus the charisma and raw sexual magnetism 23: Linda Nolan: apparently has terminal cancer. I never heard of her. I best she's British. 24: Val Kilmer: has cancer, looks awful (I'm tired at this point) 25: Stefan Karl Stefansson: who knew that in Lazy Town, the real hero all this time was Robbie Rotten.

Health update ahead of Christmas: "He's at home, he's resting well — he's just old. He doesn't see well, he doesn't hear very well but his mind is still good, his mind is still clear,"

I keep hearing this one here but none of the nice British chaps in this forum have volunteered thus far to explain this seemingly humorous little quip to me.

Sometimes, life is only 2/3 fair.

Former White House Chief Strategist and dashing sex symbol Steve Bannon calls HW Bush an old man and a pervert.

A statue of his in Rapid City, South Dakota has been vandalized (not a hate crime, apparently), which proves once again that the Simpsons predicted everything. Also, South Dakota still exists.