ThePrematureBurial

https://archive.org/details/everyfrenchmanha00deha Not just boring, but completely empty of content.

I think right now, that everybody except Sutcliffe, Marcos, Kissinger, prince Philip & Cheney are boring. Olivia de Havilland, for instance, has written an incredibly boring autobiography. Giscard d'Estaing has become a little bit less boring, after allegedly molesting this female reporter, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berith_Bohm Swedish opera singer Berith Bohm died last week aged 87. Not really famous, but but her photo in the Wiki article is terrifying. This is how she looked in 1965, when she was just 33.

I predict, that the most boring persons on this year's deathlist will survive & that the committee will put their names on next year's list.

Cold & rainy summer. Or drought & forest fires. More interference from the government, like tracing apps that enable politicians, employers & insurance companies to gain an insight into our medical histories. These apps will be "optional", but without them we won't be allowed to enter most shops. Higher taxes. Property taxes for the middle class. Abolition of cash. Everybody will be forced to pay with credit cards, like in Venezuela.

She didn't make a political statement. Old ladies like to talk about their health & old actresses certainly enjoy the attention from the press. If you believed, that a certain drug saved you miraculously, wouldn't you spread the message into the world?

Lovers of French films will never forget him. I have seen "Les choses de la vie" & "La grande bouffe" at least four or five times through the years.

Here's Gabriel Bacquier's obituary from the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/05/17/gabriel-bacquier-french-baritone-star-covent-garden-glyndebourne/

Famous French actress Mylène Demongeot (84, Fantomas), survived her illness thanks to cloroquine. (long interview in French). https://www.journaldesfemmes.fr/people/magazine/2631989-mylene-demongeot-coronavirus-diarrhees-poids/ She also said in another interview that, when she was making a film until the confinement, the technicians wore masks, the actors of course not. When they transported her to the hospital, she was nearly dying & the doctors refused to intubate her. She also survived cancer of the peritoneum & a chemotherapy.

I don't know if this BBC article counts as an obit, but famous French baritone Gabriel Bacquier (1924-2020) is a hit for me. (24 points). https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/3a36b2b8-5450-4464-9bee-d7a0ab6dd255 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Bacquier

Brigitte Bardot (85) se rejouit du confinement et préfère de voir des écureuils et des sangliers plutot que des gens. Elle pense qu'elle doit sa santé de fer à son régime alimentaire. Elle ne mange que des légumes, des oeufs et de la salade. https://www.public.fr/News/C-est-sublime-Brigitte-Bardot-se-rejouit-du-confinement-1638676

Maurice Barrier (87) est malheureusement mort du coronavirus, mais Line Renaud (91) nous souhaite des joyeuses fêtes de pâques:

French actor Maurce Barrier (87), who made films with Belmondo, Delon & Depardieu, died last night. http://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/cinema/le-comedien-maurice-barrier-est-decede-du-coronavirus-13-04-2020-8298693.php

May 7th

RIP, Stirling Moss! And I wish the other members of Deathlist a happy Easter. You're really breaking all the records. Eight hits in less than four months.