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A Law & Order franchise thread might be in order. It's been on for a long time and nearly all the leading cast members from the various shows are still alive - the only exception that I can think of is Jerry Orbach.

Peter Bogdanovitch would have been big news if he'd died around 1974, when he was riding on a string of hit movies. But his success was mixed up with a very specific moment, when old-fashioned movies could appeal to a vogue for nostalgia for twenties and Depression-era America, what might be called Great Gatsby chic. Inevitably things moved on, and he made two or three films which failed badly, and was never as big again.

I think they'd all agree Godard was a major director. Not to mention Quentin Tarantino.

They both look like this member of the female masking community:

I think Godard has a strong case for being the most influential living director. Whether his films were good or not will be subject to serious debate when he dies, and for a long time after.

Trintignant is one of the French New Wave's signature actors, but Godard is the New Wave director.

Mexican actor Alfonso Mejia dead at 87. Notable for playing a lead role in Bunuel's classic teenage street-gang movie Los Olvidados, and for having been the last surviving member of the cast.

Her immune system might have failed from some kind of cancer.

Her first marriage lasted two years, her second (to McCartney) four years. Will this one manage six, or eight even?

The last survivor of Robert Stack's squad in The Untouchables, I think.

I think plain mass disregard of the rules is much more likely than riots. (Unless public policing gets very heavy-handed in the wrong place and time.) People are going to think, they don't keep the rules so why should we?

I think it'd include any unreleased studio recordings, especially since he's been with the same record company throughout his career.

I've never read any of Anne Rice's books, but I don't blame her for giving editors the elbow.

Let's give this one an airing for Mensi.

I vaguely imagined Martine McCutcheon would have played somebody's girlfriend, but she played the teenage lead character's mother.

If it came out that Boris himself was at one, that might do it. But I was thinking of some actual policy disaster along the lines of the three-day week.

I think Boris will carry on, short of something absolutely disastrous happening. There's nobody capable of unseating him who wants to be PM at the moment.

Only Jimmy Somerville left of the original trio.

Major news on the comics internet, probably noted elsewhere when the time comes.

He was a one hit wonder, but his album Rebel did well at the time too. (Its cover showed him in a James Dean pose from East of Eden, part of a rather unconvincing image makeover. A few months before he'd been a long-haired type like a second guitarist from Status Quo.) He also made a surprising number of singles before reaching the big time, going back to 1970.

He must have sighed whenever he was introduced to English speakers.

Boris will probably be a DL candidate c.2060.

Alvin Lucier, composer of I Am Sitting In A Room, is now lying in a coffin, or will be shortly.

To be fair she doesn't look 63 there.

Channel 4 did a programme about the Sex book live at midnight with the guests being given newly-released and still sealed copies to discuss there and then. One guest was Marcelle D'Argy Smith who I think was editor of Cosmopolitan, anyway she was rather elderly and was practically frotteuring herself on the seat of her chair.