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Gary Cooper, one of Hollywood's most beloved legends and greatest stars known for his natural acting style and generally admired for his professionalism, died of prostate and colon cancer while sleeping peacefully under sedation. Cooper, winner of two Academy Awards and one honorary, died in the quiet of his Holmby Hills home on this date in 1961. He was 60 years old. Initially interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Santa Monica, Cooper's remains were moved to Sacred Heart Cemetery in South Hampton, Long Island, closer to the family.

Erich von Stroheim, one of the most respected film directors of the 20th Century known as "the man you love to hate", died in Paris of prostate cancer on this date in 1957 at the age of 71.

Lester L. Wolff was picked by five teams. Congratulations!

Congratulations! You've got 450 points with Norman Lloyd. Well done, markb4!

Polly-Louisa Salmon, better known by her stage name GFOTY is an English pop singer. GFOTY (abbreviation of Girlfriend of the Year). At this hour... she's alive. Walter Mondale... no. Bibliogryphon... Where's your candidate number 21?

Walter Mondale died on April 19. Candidate of: CaptainHemlock and Dying Probably.

DAME PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE: English actress, comedian and singer with a career of 70 years. Patricia Routledge started working in TV in the early 1950s, but she also recorded an album, "Presenting Patricia Routledge", and worked in feature film productions and radio as well. She's an accomplished stage actress. She has had a great career in theatre. She made her stage debut in 1952 and her Broadway debut in 1966. Routledge's singing voice is genuinely impressive. Her vocal range was labelled as a mezzo-soprano and a contralto. She won a Tony Award for her performance in the musical "Darling of the Day" in 1968. She won an Olivier Award for her work in "Candide" in 1988. She found a second home in the Hollywood cinema, starring in a number of successful films such as "To Sir with love" (1967) with Sidney Poitier, "30 is a dangerous age, Cynthia" (1968) with Dudley Moore, "Pretty Polly" (1968) with Hayley Mills, "The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom" (1968) with Shirley MacLaine or "The Imitation Game" (1980) with Nicholas Le Prevost. She starred in the first-ever "Talking Heads" monologue by Alan Bennett. Routledge starred in another two Bennett monologues, delivering a BAFTA-nominated performance for "A Lady of Letters" in 1988. She starred in "Hetty Wainthropp Investigates", a BBC detective drama series from the 90's. She portrayed a formerly working-class woman in the comedy series "Keeping Up Appearances" in 1990. She still gets "Keeping Up Appearances" fan mail from all over the world. Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1993. Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2004. She received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from Lancaster University for her contribution to drama and theatre in 2008. Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to theatre and charity in 2017. She received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from University of Chester for her contributions to theater and television in 2019. Honorary president of the Association of English Singers and Speakers. Ambassador for the charity Royal Voluntary Service. A classy lady, a top rated actress and a wonderful human being.

Actor Lex Barker, three days after his 54th birthday, died of a heart attack on this day in 1973: Actor Timothy Carey, two months after his 65th birthday, died of a stroke on this day in 1994:

It's all right, no pressure... and take your time.

They look younger than their actual age. gcreptile... Harry, Ruth and Thelma are eating the same things. I'm fed up of eating the same food, every day. I have known people to eat themselves sick. I really want to meet Harry, Ruth and Thelma... I want to eat the same... it is what I would like to know, if possible.

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THREE POEMS BY JOSÉ MANUEL CABALLERO BONALD: WASTE OF TIME: There's a great white bird, nesting in the word time, a consecutive loss of past historic, and some surplus of fleetingness. Other words interweave in the word time, of the same stock: The slow, perpetual sea, and its fathomless wearing away, fate ever wandering, and the astronomic light gap. The one strategy best poised to defeat time is to be able to waste it, and go unpunished. I DO NOT KNOW FROM WHENCE YOU COME: Now I remember the speakable river that flowed below your name, the house in whose kingdom the bitter day walked, meandering around the clear maternal walls. I remember it all together, although, I don't know, something escapes me, like a remnant of light, like a sense of absence, something that I forget and yet understand that it is most decisive. And suddenly I no longer know anything of yours. THE DISQUIET OF THE PERFORMED DUTY: Blessed he who, one morning, suddenly turns aside from the road he used to walk each day, for years, until the irrevocable district of duty. So what made him digress: The ineffective sameness of inertia, taedium vitae repeatedly ongoing like a merciless devastation, the dampened distance between morons and their prisons? Did he unwittingly choose the least predictable, that's to say, the fairest way? Blessed he who one day decided to retrace his life until reaching one very unendorseable peace.

José Manuel Caballero Bonald, the Spanish poet and member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, has died at the age of 94 at his home in Madrid. https://then24.com/2021/05/09/poet-jose-manuel-caballero-bonald-dies-at-94/ Caballero Bonald received the National Prize for Spanish Letters in 2005, the National Poetry Prize in 2006, the Cervantes Prize in 2012 and the Francisco Umbral Prize for his book of poetry "Unlearning" in 2016.

Billy Joel, the American singer, pianist and songwriter who has had 33 Top 40 hits and 23 Grammy nominations, is 72 years old this Sunday. Having sold more than 150 million records. Joel, the pint-size kid from Long Island who became a rock icon, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. He said: "If you're not doing what you love, you're wasting your time". Here singing "Piano Man" in Japan:

gcreptile... This is the man: Believe me, listen to "calm" music is the greatest thing ever before going to bed.

An absolute legend. Well, you know what monkeys say about Attenborough, my friend: "He's the coolest, man".

It's very true what you're saying... The reclusive Trintignant, who lives in a remote French farmhouse, is really tough... He said: "I have been dead for 15 years", alluding to the violent death of her daughter by her boyfriend... Trintignant also confessed that he had stopped fighting a prostate cancer very advanced and he said: "I let myself go. I am not going to do chemotherapy"... Trintignant's resistance is amazing.

Here... a crazy fan or something. When I have had a hard day, my husband puts him arm around me and allows me to watch 3 episodes.

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On this occasion... My beloved Bob Barker is having an amazing time with Leslie Phillips... Looks like they're friends already... Bibliogryphon, I'm sorry, but... This was my biggest wish... Bob Barker playing on my team... and I beg your pardon.

chilean way... Congratulations! I'm happy for you! 1921 Wanda Półtawska / Francisco Morales Bermúdez 1922 Micheline Presle / Raffaele La Capria 1923 Ida Vitale / Bob Barker 1924 Kirsi Kunnas / Leslie Phillips 1925 Phyllis Dalton / Michel Bouquet 1926 Irene Papas / Alan Greenspan 1927 Barbara Rush / Harry Belafonte 1928 Patricia Hitchcock / Charles Strouse 1929 Joan Plowright / Len Deighton 1930 Frances Sternhagen / Jean-Louis Trintignant

Bibliogryphon... Is this enough for chilean way?... All QO are in spanish... Except this... https://www.moneytrainingclub.com/humberto-maturana-the-chilean-biologist-who-marked-science-digital-trends-spanish/amp/ Or this: https://www.ruetir.com/2021/05/06/chilean-biologist-humberto-maturana-dies/

harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy, I just saw "Tillsammans" on television this morning. It's a funny film with hilarious situations and very satirical. Great choice harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy, really great to see. Such a good film. I think that this film is the sort of "small films" where discovery can be a pleasure. You have good taste. I'll give you that. Thanks for the recommendation.

Book... You have another one... You can mark it... Good on you!

Believe me, I understand you perfectly. At night, I really want to watch something more cheerful now. Like most people at this time. Thank you for the recommendation, the_engineer. And I'm real glad you remembered me. You're very kind.