Torva Messor

November 11

Five months without a hit made me inattentive, Ethel Kennedy's 10 Oct death returned my attention and should increase my score.

If the list could be updated also for Martin Mull ("Gene Parmesan"), who also died in 2024, that would be grate.

Benny Golson must be dead. Right now I'm hearing "Whisper Not" from Benny Golson's New York Scene from a radio show.

Only by substance abuse misadventure. His mental fragility seems lifelong. Conjecture seems based on assumption he has a conscience. What I've read doesn't hint at that. Decrying his family as "a racist institution" isn't taking a superior position, it's an attempt to use media, the papers he sued against, to give him power and feed his entitlement. An overdose, as his body builds tolerance and his scarcity of functioning brain cells fritters, from the pain of being married to a malignant narcissist who does not love him and presses him to alienate his family seems most probable. If he were a conscientious person, aware of his predicament and capable of selfless acts of charity and mercy, he'd make arrangements for his children to escape future torment.

Sven-Göran Eriksson waited in the wings, and then flew away on wings before he could reach the main stage. My three substitutes are now ranked: 1. Linda Turado 2. Priscilla Pointer 3. Gloria Whelan

Peter Marshall is among the stars (spirits in the sky or dirt, your choice) Here's a New York Times obituary for him. Aside from the bed block trio, I understand the most youthful survivor on my list today embarks on a trip to a South America country where its current Vice President Francia Márquez escaped an assassination attempt. I am mournful about my sixth hit but a seventh hit should I be so lucky could pull me out of my funk. https://i.makeagif.com/media/12-09-2015/I-3cCl.mp4

Two from my OUT pile bit the dust last month, glad an entry on the remaining list breaks that vexing trend Gena Rowlands with QO from the Daily Heil (I am sure the better-reputation UK sources will come in hours from now, I am impatient), like time, passes on: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13744829/Gena-Rowlands-dead-94-Notebook-Alzheimers.html

My June 2024 update was posted before Françoise Hardy died. Consequently I expect an update of twelve hits for me. No especial alphabetic, alliterative, whippersnapper or vocalic bonus for FH. Just the one point increment. Thank you.

Way to go, @ladyfiona!

My entry is in. Thanks for reprising this.

I left the US in 2019 after living there for 23 years. For most of my time there I had the idea that Americans kept guns for hunting animals for food, for target practice (inanimate objects), and self-defense, or when their freedoms and liberties were threatened. Could be some of them even told me this. Turns out that for the frequency of their discharges of firearms toddlers are considered "well-regulated militia"; school children, cafe patrons, churchgoers, and mall shoppers are Constitutional threats because why else would they be shot, with their hands full or attention elsewhere; but some doddering, compromised, convicted felon running for nation leadership and a mostly conservative Supreme Court are no cause for anxiety and no impetus to preserve freedom and liberty, according to a large number of Americans. Either that, or collective untreated mental illness has accumulated over the last quarter-century in the U.S.

He's turning 40, allegedly has cognitive/behavioral issues and substance abuse, and is rumoured to be unhappy in his marriage. When or if it dawns on the Duke of Dumbarton his money went to drugs, publicity for his wife, and purchase of awards from low-reputation U.S. "charities", and if he despairs of direction of his life and repercussions of his life decisions this thread will be seen as prescient.

I suggest "The Button-Down Rind of Bob Newhart" for his entry, a play on his early 1960s comedy LP record.

Overlooked solo hit (not mine) Percy Adlon the filmmaker surely has a QO?