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Olivia sang during an all-gay Caribbean cruise & seemed to be in good form. (It's just the Daily Mail, but they have photos & a video): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5309081/Storm-chaser-Joel-Taylor-died-alleged-drug-overdose.html Olivia has also plans to perform together with Willie Nelson at the Golden Nugget in March. Her daughter is unfortunately a problem child: Anorexia, cocaine, one bottle of vodka a day, mixed with sedatives... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5314969/Chloe-Lattanzi-discusses-battle-depression.html

Just a sketchy list of elderly film directors: Michael Anderson 1920 (Around the world in 80 days) Lewis Gilbert (1920 -2018) (Alfie & three James Bond films) Franco Zeffirelli 1923 Stanley Donen 1924 Peter Brook 1925 (Theatre director) Norman Jewison 1926 (In the heat of the night) Mel Brooks 1926 Kenneth Anger 1927 Lina Wertmüller 1928 Agnes Varda 1928 James Ivory 1928 Mark Rydell 1928 (On Golden Pond) Nicolas Roeg 1928 Richard Rush 1929 (The Stuntman) Richard Donner 1930 Robert Evans 1930 (Producer) Jean-Luc Godard 1930 Buck Henry 1930 Jan Troell 1931 (The emigrants) Milos Forman 1932 (One flew over the cuckoo's nest) Richard Lester 1932 Carlos Saura 1932 Jean-Paul Rappeneau 1932 Robert Benton 1932 (Kramer vs Kramer) Konstantin Costa-Gavras 1933 (Z) Bob Rafelson 1933 (Jack Nicholson films) Roman Polanski 1933 Claude Zidi 1934 Woody Allen 1935 John Boorman 1936 (Deliverance) William Friedkin 1935 (French Connection) Hugh Hudson 1936 (Chariots of Fire) Ridley Scott 1937 Christian de Chalonge 1937 (Malevil) Claude Lelouch 1937 (A man & a woman) Don Bluth 1937 (Anastasia) Paul Verhoeven 1938 (Basic Instinct) Istvan Szabo 1938 (Mephisto) Ralph Bakshi 1939 (Fritz the cat) Jiri Menzel 1938 (Closely watched Trains) Richard Benjamin1938 (My favorite year) Francis Ford Coppola 1939 Peter Bogdanovich 1939 Krzysztof Zanussi 1939 Bertrand Blier 1939 John Badham 1939 (Saturday night fever) Fred Schepisi 1939 (Russia House) Volker Schlöndorff 1939 Brian da Palma 1940 Bernardo Bertolucci 1940 (Last Tango in Paris) Tony Bill 1940 Bruce Beresford 1940 (Driving Miss Daisy) Terry Gilliam 1940 James Brooks 1940 (Terms of Endearment) Bertrand Tavernier 1941 Wolfgang Petersen 1941 Denys Arcand 1941 (Jesus of Montreal) Stephen Frears 1941 (The Queen) Barbet Schroeder 1941 Adrian Lyne 1941 (Fatal Attraction) Martin Scorsese 1942 Barry Levinson 1942 (Rain Man) Michael Haneke 1942 (Amour) Margarete von Trotta 1942 Werner Herzog 1942 (Fitzcarraldo) Andre Techine 1943 Jean-Jacques Annaud 1943 (The Name of the Rose) Mike Leigh 1943 (Secrets & Lies) Terrence Malik 1943 Michael Mann 1943 (Heat) George Lucas 1944 Alan Parker 1944 (Evita) Taylor Hackford 1944 (An officer & a Gentleman) Peter Weir 1944 (The Truman Show) John Milius 1944 Wim Wenders 1945 (Wings of Desire) Andrew Bergman 1945 (Striptease) Shekhar Kapur 1945 (Elizabeth) Nikita Mikhalkow 1945 (Urga) Roland Joffe 1945 (The Mission) Steven Spielberg 1946 Bill Forsyth 1946 (Local Hero) Ivan Reitman 1946 (Ghostbusters) Lasse Hallström 1946 (Cider House Rules) David Lynch 1946 (Blue Velvet) Oliver Stone 1946 Ken Loach 1946 Jean-Jacques Beneix 1946 (Diva) Paul Auster 1947 (Writer) Patrice Leconte 1947 (Monsieur Hire) Rob Reiner 1947 (When Harry met Sally) Uli Edel 1947 (Last Exit to Brooklyn) Agnieszka Holland 1948 (Europa Europa) Bille August 1948 Regis Wargnier 1948 (Indochine) John Carpenter 1948 (Halloween) Mike Figgis 1948 Jim Sheridan 1949 (My left Foot) Malcolm Mowbray 1949 John Madden 1949 (Shakespeare in love) Pedro Almodovar 1949 Neil Jordan 1950 Robert Zemeckis 1952 Roberto Benigni 1952 Scott Hicks 1953 (Shine) Jane Campion 1954 Spike Lee 1957

I think that Tessa Jowell's death will come as a merciful release.

She survived a hip operation & her mom is still alive. I hoped that she would exploit the death of her odious stepmom & write a tell-all book (the fact that Barbara's son is a lawyer seems to frighten her, though). Lately, dear Nancy has become unhinged & deals out blows left & right at Twitter. She called NRA members "murderers" & ICE agents "nazis". I'll keep an eye on her.

Pictures from yesterday's concert in Lyon. Charles Aznavour will celebrate his centenary in a couple of years. He's incredibly tough. http://www.leprogres.fr/rhone-69-edition-lyon-metropole/2018/01/20/harles-aznavour-a-la-halle-tony-garnier

Golden Globe winner Bradford Dillman (A Certain Smile, 1958) died at the age of 87. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bradford-dillman-dead-actor-compulsion-way-we-were-was-87-1075818

Charles Aznavour plans to buy a car & visited the Renault factory in Flins-sur-Seine last week. Today he will give a concert in Lyon & tuesday in Marseille. There's one place he won't visit this year: the otherworld. http://www.leparisien.fr/yvelines-78/flins-sur-seine-aznavour-en-balade-incognito-a-l-usine-renault-12-01-2018-7497600.php

...but I'm not an expert panel that cleverly overlooked the most famous chef of the twentieth century.

And his name was not included in the official death list... Thank God, the committee has not forgotten Charles Aznavour, who is fit as a fiddle & has a major concert tonight, in Lyon, where Bocuse ran five restaurants... Definitely the biggest miss of this year, so far.

What are you going to do when someone really popular like Sean Connery dies? Declare that just the first posting counts & berate all the fans who dare to post a link to other websites? For many people like myself, who were children during the 1970ies, Peter Wyngarde was some kind of cult star. Department S & Jason King were two of the few shows for grown-ups my parents allowed me to watch & this actor gave me great pleasure.

Peter Wyngarde's Daily Mail obituary: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5283121/TV-actor-Peter-Wyngarde-played-Jason-King-died.html

According to this article in L'Eperon (a website about horses), Jacinte Giscard d'Estaing died at the age of 58. The former French president's daughter was a veterinarian & horse enthusiast. http://www.leperon.fr/Cheval-de-A-a-Z/Politique/Disparition-de-Jacinte-Giscard-d-Estaing2

Today Sen. Bob Dole received the congressional gold medal. He was able to stand during the anthem & made a coherent speech without relying on a teleprompter. But he was also coughing & sneezing & had handkerchiefs on his lap.

President Trump will give Bob Dole the congressional gold medal, the nation's highest honor. Tomorrow at 3 PM in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. I remember when Frank Sinatra received the congressional gold medal. He died half a year later. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-to-give-bob-dole-congressional-gold-medal-nations-highest-honor/article/2646081

1. John Tyler was 63 when his son Lyon was born (1853). 2. Lyon was 71 when Lyon Jr. was born (1924), and 75 when Harrison was born (1928). 3. Both sons are still alive.

A couple of famous artists who are still alive: Carmen Herrera 1915 Gerhard Richter 1932 Arik Brauer 1929 Christo 1935 David Hockney 1937 There are also some younger artists who, I think, are exposed to considerable risks, since it became known that they were among Tony Podesta's favorite artists: Marina Abramovic 1946 does just the usual satanist stuff, like spraying blood & other bodily fluids. The following painters/photographers however, have created some eye-catching artworks: Patricia Piccinini 1965 Sam Taylor-Wood 1967 Anna Gaskell 1969 Margi Geerlinks 1970 Biljana Djurdjevic 1973 Two things may happen: 1.They may attract the attention of some weirdo obsessed by "Pizzagate". 2. The DOJ suddenly becomes adventurous & starts to investigate the Podestas & their ties to the Clintons. And we know that bad things happened to people with insider knowledge about the Clintons...

Don't underestimate them. They were the ones who published Mel Gibson's phone calls a couple of years ago.

American broadcast journalist Barbara Walters has not been seen in public since July 2016. She is hold captive in her own home, according to Radar online. She shows signs of dementia, broke her hip a couple of months ago & is wheelchair-bound. https://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/barbara-walters-held-captive-home-bad-health/

I was surprised that nobody had these two famous widows on their death lists. (Joan is technically just an ex-wife though). Ethel Kennedy will celebrate her 90th anniversary in April, and Joan will be 82 in September.

French President François Mitterand died from prostate cancer at the age of 79. He concealed his condition for most of his presidency.

I hope I will never reach this age.

A sketchy list of elderly Opera stars: Inge Borkh 1921 Lucine Amara 1925 Christa Ludwig 1928 Rosalind Elias 1929 Antonietta Stella 1929 Gabriella Tucci 1929 Renate Holm 1931 Mady Mesple 1931 Janet Baker 1933 Montserrat Caballe 1933 (wheelchair-bound, on my 2018 shadow list) Marilyn Horne 1934 Raina Kabaivanska 1934 Renata Scotto 1934 Teresa Berganza 1935 Fiorenza Cossotto 1935 Mirella Freni 1935 Martina Arroyo 1936 Gwyneth Jones 1936 Ingeborg Hallstein 1936 Grace Bumbry 1937 Gundula Janowitz 1937 Yvonne Minton 1938 Huguette Tourangeot 1938 Teresa Stratas 1938 Edda Moser 1938 Rachel Yakar 1938 Maria Chiara 1939 Ileana Cotrubas 1939 Helga Dernesch 1939 Brigitte Fassbaender 1939 Mirjana Irosch 1939 Helen Donath 1940 Anja Silja 1940 Julia Varady 1941 Anna Tomowa-Sintow 1941 Judith Blegen 1943 Eva Marton 1943 (Overweight) Kiri Te Kanawa 1944 Agnes Baltsa 1944 Frederica von Stade 1945 Jessye Norman 1945 Edita Gruberova 1946 Katia Ricciarelli 1946 Barbara Hendricks 1948 Catherine Malfitano 1948 Kathleen Battle 1948 Julia Migenes 1949 Mara Zampieri 1951 Cheryl Studer 1955 (Overweight) Rolando Panerai 1924 Luigi Alva 1927 Vasile Moldoveanu 1935 Sherrill Milnes 1935 Peter Schreier 1935 Ugo Benelli 1935 Renato Bruson 1936 Rene Kollo 1937 Kenneth Riegel 1938 Simon Estes 1938 Samuel Ramey 1940 Jose Van Dam 1940 Placido Domingo 1941 Ruggero Raimondi 1941 Leo Nucci 1942 Salvatore Fisichella 1943 Jose Carreras 1946 (On my 2018 shadowlist) James Morris 1947 Neil Shicoff 1949 Ferruccio Furlanetto 1949

Just a sketchy list of elderly actors: Kirk Douglas 1916 Michel Piccoli 1925 Dick Van Dyke 1925 Sidney Poitier 1927 Harry Belafonte 1927 Michael Craig 1928 Stuart Whitman 1928 Hardy Krüger 1928 Max von Sydow 1929 Christopher Plummer 1929 Don Murray 1929 Edward Asner 1929 Clint Eastwood 1930 Gene Hackman 1930 Sean Connery 1930 Robert Wagner 1930 Jean Louis Trintignant 1930 Armin Müller-Stahl 1930 Robert Duvall 1931 William Shatner 1931 James Earl Jones 1931 Michael Lonsdale 1931 Tab Hunter 1931 John Gavin (1931 - 2018) Ian Holm 1931 Jean Paul Belmondo 1933 Michael Palin 1933 Michael Caine 1933 Robert Blake 1933 Danny Aiello 1933 Alan Arkin 1934 James Drury 1934 (Shiloh Ranch) George Segal 1934 Pat Boone 1934 Richard Chamberlain 1934 Woody Allen 1935 Donald Sutherland 1935 Alain Delon 1935 (Looks like the picture of Dorian Gray, but not like someone who will die soon) Chaim Topol 1935 Robert Redford 1936 Bruce Dern 1936 Burt Reynolds 1936 Albert Finney 1936 Hector Elizondo 1936 Tom Courteney 1937 Morgan Freeman 1937 Jack Nicholson 1937 Anthony Hopkins 1937 Edward Fox 1937 Dustin Hoffman 1937 Warren Beatty 1937 George Takei 1937 Frank Langella 1938 Adriano Celentano 1938 Jon Voight 1938 Elliott Gould 1938 Derek Jacobi 1938 Terence Stamp 1938 (Diabetes) James Fox 1939 John Cleese 1939 Paul Sorvino 1939 Ian McKellen 1939 Al Pacino 1940 Peter Fonda 1940 Martin Sheen 1940 James Brolin 1940 Stacy Keach 1941 Beau Bridges 1941 Ryan O'Neal 1941 Nick Nolte 1941 Michael York 1942 (Does not look good lately) Robin Ellis 1942 (Poldark, Diabetes) Robert de Niro 1943 Christopher Walken 1943 Max Wright 1943 (Alf. Some terrible recent photos) Richard O'Sullivan 1944 (Robins's Nest. Looks horrible lately) Michael Douglas 1944 John Lithgow 1945 Tom Selleck 1945 Sylvester Stallone 1946 James Woods 1947 Kevin Kline 1947 Jonathan Pryce 1947 Richard Dreyfuss 1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947 Gerard Depardieu 1948 (Morbidly obese) Jeff Bridges 1949 David Hasselhoff 1952 Edward Furlong 1977 & Pete Doherty 1979 are still young & may recover like Macauly Culkin, but Furlong's latest photos look terrible and I won't even begin to describe the sight of Doherty's rotten teeth.

Just a sketchy list to help me keep track of famous actresses: Olivia de Havilland 1916 Marge Champion 1919 Nanette Fabray (1920 - 2018) Carol Channing 1921 Betty White 1922 Doris Day 1922 Micheline Presle 1922 Janis Paige 1922 Valentina Cortese 1923 Glynis Johns 1923 Rhonda Fleming 1923 (The best-looking ninety-years old I have ever seen) Eva Marie Saint 1924 Zizi Jeanmaire 1924 Lee Grant 1925? Katherine McGregor 1925 (Little house on the Prairie) Angela Lansbury 1925 Arlene Dahl 1925 Irene Papas 1926 Gina Lollobrigida 1927 Barbara Rush 1927 Genevieve Page 1927 Jane Powell 1929 Vera Miles 1929 Joanne Woodward 1930 (Alzheimer's) Tippi Hedren 1930 (Survived Hitchcock & 110+ lions, but looks frail now) Carmen Sevilla 1930 (Alzheimer's) Leslie Caron 1931 Monica Vitti 1931 (Alzheimer) Petula Clark 1932 Elaine May 1932 Felicia Farr 1932 Stephane Audran 1932 Phyllida Law 1932 Ellen Burstyn 1932 Kim Novak 1933 (Breast Cancer) May Britt 1933 Carol Burnett 1933 Sian Phillips 1933 Barbara Feldon 1933 (Get Smart) Joan Collins 1933 Judy Dench 1934 Louise Fletcher 1934 Maggie Smith 1934 Shirley MacLaine 1934 Eileen Atkins 1934 Florence Henderson 1934 Shirley Jones 1934 Brigitte Bardot 1934 Sophia Loren 1934 May Britt 1934 Julie Andrews 1935 Samantha Eggar 1935 Barbara Harris 1935 Diahann Carroll 1935 Diane Ladd 1935 Bibi Andersson 1935 Mylene Demongeot 1935 Glenda Jackson 1936 Shirley Knight 1936 Ursula Andress 1936 Shirley Eaton 1937 (Goldfinger) Sally Kellerman 1937 Vanessa Redgrave 1937 Susan Hampshire 1937 Dyan Cannon 1937 Jane Fonda 1937 Margaret O'Brien 1937 (Famous child star) Diana Rigg 1938 Claudia Cardinale 1938 Diana Muldaur 1938 Paula Prentiss 1938 Anne Stallybrass 1938 (Onedin Line) Stella Stevens 1938 Connie Stevens 1938 (Stroke in 2016) Lily Tomlin 1939 Ali McGraw 1939 Jane Alexander 1939 Michael Learned 1939 (The Waltons) Jill St. John 1940 Raquel Welch 1940 Julie Christie 1940 Jacqueline Sassard 1940 Katharine Ross 1940 Anna Karina 1940 Juliet Mills 1941 Ann-Margret 1941 Sarah Miles 1941 Rita Tushingham 1942 Britt Ekland 1942 Barbra Streisand 1942 Genevieve Bujold 1942 Linda Evans 1942 (She looks horrible lately) Gayle Hunnicut 1943 Cheryl Miller 1943 (Daktari) Susan Clark 1943 Tuesday Weld 1943 Catherine Deneuve 1943 Jacqueline Bisset 1944 Teri Garr 1944 Priscilla Presley 1945 Helen Mirren 1945 Mia Farrow 1945 Goldie Hawn 1945 Bette Midler 1945 Sue Lyon 1946 (Lolita, now unrecognizable) Jane Birkin 1946 (Autoimmune illness, overweight) Stefania Sandrelli 1946 Candice Bergen 1946 (Unrecognizable) Liza Minnelli 1946 Charlotte Rampling 1946 Sally Field 1946 Geraldine Chaplin 1946 Diane Keaton 1946 Glenn Close 1947 Kathy Bates 1948 Meryl Streep 1949 Sigourney Weaver 1949 Shelley Duvall 1949 (Star of Altman & Kubrik films. Seriously ill) Kathleen Turner 1954 (Rheumatoid arthritis, alcohol problems) Rosie O'Donnell 1962 (Heart attack, volatile temper)

Thank you. I have been trying to sort my signature for half an hour, but my text editor has ist own mind.