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  6. Posted

    54 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

    She was in North by Northwest which is generally considered to be Hitchcock's masterpiece and she won an academy award for On The Waterfront.

     

    She is in the top tier of Hollywood nonagenarians

     

     

    Agree. Still baffles me that She wasn’t pick yet by the committee. Is She dies without being on the list, I’d consider her a miss

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    54 minutes ago, Predictor said:

    If Eva Marie Saint makes it to her 100th birthday in 3 months, where would you rank her among the biggest movie star centenarians ever? Kirk Douglas, Bob Hope, Olivia de Havilland, George Burns and Glynis Johns are arguably top 5 at the moment. She should be up there on their level. Then we have the tier below, with the likes of Luise Rainer,  Gloria Stuart, Marsha Hunt, Norman Lloyd, Janis Paige, Baby Peggy, and so on.

     

    Another question, has there ever been a movie with a would-be centenarian leading couple? Because Eva starred with Bob Hope in the 1956 comedy That Certain Feeling.

    I would argue that Luise Rainer belongs with the formers that you mentionned : 2 oscars and one of the most prominent actress of the 30-40´s Hollywood movies. I doubt George Burns and Glynis Johns reache the level of the other 3 in terms of international notability though but I could be wrong and would glady accept it. 

    other names that comes to mind at the moment are Lupita Tovar, Mary Carsisle, Micheline Presle, Gisèle Casadesus and Earl Cameron but I can’t tell how famous they’ve been outside of the deadpool zone 

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  12. Posted

    39 minutes ago, Jonah said:

    He met with Dr. Jane Goodall last month, and there are some new pictures.

    I don’t think he looks that great to be honest. Everyone seems to think he’ll be fine and he looks good but he does look frail. Nothing unusual at his age but that’s not because you’re still working that you can’t drop dead all of a sudden, which is I suspect, the way it’ll go for him

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  13. Posted

    On 25/02/2022 at 11:36, Lafaucheuse said:

    Simone Weber (wiki) french convicted murderer of her husband and suspected in 2 others deaths is still alive at 92. One of the most important criminal case of the XXth century in France. 

    Simone Weber, "la Diabolique de Nancy" dead at 94. Surprisingly enough, this makes all the front cover right now (and a breaking news notification from Le Monde ;)) whereas I thought she might have died under the radar… Should have put her on my french list, didn't know she was famous enough. 

    She was convicted of having cut up her husband with a concrete grinder but always refuted the allegations

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  14. Posted

    34 minutes ago, drol said:

    Jazz elders are incredibly tough. Ray Anthony, Marshall Allen and Roy Haynes are doing extremely well despite their age and lifestyle.

    Martial Solal is another one of them, don’t know if he’s famous enough outside of France but here he’s an A lister

  16. Posted

    26 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

     

    The Crowdsourced List is only at four and the TOP 50 in the DDP is only at three so this is more to do with left field deaths this year rather than poor picking by the committee

    Also my impression. A lot of hanging fruits on the list who managed to survive that far but I can’t see Chomsky, Starmer Smith, Woodward, Newhart, Rantzen or Sonny Rollins surviving 2024. Let alone the great Carter. I don’t think it’s a bad list but if most of them survive the year, then 2025 will probably be a bloodbath 

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  17. Posted

    32 minutes ago, MrWonderful said:

    Another outing in public, wearing the same clothes as last time.  Still looks rough, but he's able to move around unaided.  I suppose that's something when you're 94.  Will still be going on my list next year if he makes it.  

    The heavy breathing of the person taking the video is sending me. Feels like he’s ready to attack 

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  18. Posted

    15 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


    But what we really want to know is did he get a breaking news notification from Le Monde @Lafaucheuse?

    actually, he did ! Le Monde doesn't give breaking news about death that much so I guess they judge he was significant enough

     

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  19. Posted

    Stafford last flight !

     

    Thomas P. Stafford is a hit for gcreptile, maxbossetti, perhaps and Sean and a miss for CaptainChorizo and therewillbedeaths

    @gcreptile : Sven Goran Eriksson in and two others subs to choose since both Joe Flaherty and Fritz Wepper from your sub bench didn't last long enough

    max_bossetti : Juhani Palmi in

    @Perhaps : Frank Caprio in and Josip Manolic on the sub list

    @Sean : another Eriksson for the official list and Nelson Acosta waiting for his turn

     

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    Ettinger Extinguished !

     

    Amy Ettinger surprisingly secured a Washington Post obit and is thus a solo pick for Captain Chorizo : Anders Vendel in, whoever that is. 

     

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    Not everyone who makes it to 114 makes it to 115… 

     

    Juan Vicente Perez Mora is a hit for buffalophil and CaptainChorizo

    @BuffaloPhil : Sven Goran Eriksson in and June Spencer as sub 3

    @CaptainChorizo : Eriksson makes it onto the official list too, ans Caprio as sub 3
     

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    End of the Lynn ! 

     

    Lynn Reid-Banks is a hit for handrejka and yorkshireBanker

    @Handrejka : Roy Strong in and Le Pen père as new sub 

    @YorkshireBanker : Dickie Bird in and Bob Packwood as sub 3

     

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    Zhang Lixiong is not faking it this time ! 

     

    Zhang Lixiong is a hit solo hit for @max_bossetti : Sven Goran Eriksson in again and two subs to choose please :) 

     

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    Puckett kicks the bucket ! 

     

    Ralph Puckett is a solo hit for @tracy: Steve McMichael and Sven Goran Eriksson as new sub

     

     

    @Famous6Eva : Fritz Wepper didn't make it to your official list so still one sub to choose please :) 

    Sven Goran Eriksson seems to be the new favorite at this point… Let me know if I missed someone ! 

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  20. Posted

    2nd of April 2024

    Hit n°9

     

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    Condead 

     

    Literary genius Maryse Condé has died two months after her 90th birthday to score yet another hit for our french deathlist. Condé was born in Guadeloupe in 1934, in a upper-class family which got her used to reading French classics from an early age. At 19, she moved to Paris where she started writing her first novels. In the late 1950's she traveled to Africa where she wrote her first published novel and moved back to the UK where she worked for a while for the BBC Africa. For the next decades, she focused on writing plays, before her rise to fame in 1984 with the novel Ségou. Since this critically acclaimed novel, Condé was seen as one of the main black writers on colonialism, slavery and black identity. Her other main works included I, Tituba : Black Witch of Salem and Windward Heights, in which she imagined the sequel of Emily Brontë's famous Wuthering Height taking place in the very early XXth century in Guadeloupe. In the second part of her prolific career, she ended up teaching history, literature and history of black movement in such prestigious university as Berkeley and Columbia. In 2018, she received the New Academy Prize in Literature, often referred as the Alternate Nobel Prize for Literature due to the cancellation of the attribution of the Literary Nobel Prize that year. In her final years, Condé suffered from ill-health and secured a spot in the middle of our list, being chosen in 25th position. She is the 9th hit of our productive french deathlist. 

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