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The article has to be in English my friend.

Legendary Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien is in failing health and likely won't make any more films: https://twitter.com/mattmccrac/status/1716543995482878194

Got a THR obit, so I'm revising this. They went with February 1926 in Oregon as her DOB/POB, no birth name, and say she has sons named Chris and Paul. Well, Chris and Paul do appear connected to the Betty I mentioned above, but if you check their birth records, their mother's maiden name was actually "Tibert". I briefly looked in records for whoever Tibert is and if it is our woman, and didn't see anything, but also I'm really tired so I don't care that much so there's that. But the more important part of the mystery is solved and she is dead. RIP.

Please stop.

Ok. I think IMDb is probably lying its ass off with her date/place of birth, and she was actually born Betty Jean Irish in Los Angeles on September 28, 1926. I wasn't convinced of this in the past, but I am now. One, she was described as "92 and going strong" in this January 2019 tweet, which would obviously be premature for February 1927, but not for the above dob. Two, an autograph address here leads to a George and Elizabeth Hoffman. If you reverse-engineer it, it's clearly the above person (same dob + there's a Betty Irish who married a George Hoffman in CA records). Is she dead? Maybe. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Burt Young, Paulie from Rocky, dead at 83.

Major actor ailing with cancer all over the news. Would be wild if he never did. It doesn't seem like he's in any imminent danger (he says the drugs will stop working "at some point", but doesn't give any indication that'll be in the near future, and obviously he's still active and looks quite good), so he may not be an incredibly appealing 2024 pick, but after that, sure, especially if he has any visible decline. Also of course there's the chance of an Andy Taylor case also where doctors find something that makes his prognosis less grim.

I pmed a team a bit ago. If you didn't get it I can just post it here.

Actually probably yes, because here's another People article where they confirm she is dead as a doornail. edit: Ah, I see you found this yourself. In any case, it was never likely to be fake. Her publicist quoted in the article has a wiki page, and searching their site shows he has yakked to them many times.

Suzanne Somers dead at 76.

Doesn't seem like it was noted anywhere but Eve Bunting, who is a pick this year, died on Oct. 1: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2023/celebs_B.html#buntine023 Only just now got a WaPo obit, so I assume she will QO eventually.

He's one of those Space Odyssey trolls, at least if I remember his previous posts well enough. (ETA: oh yeah, he confirmed it here by giving me a shock reaction.) Seems like he's dished out 219 facepalms in this current ragefest of his. Can he top Diego's like count before the mods catch on?

1923: Victor A. Lundy / Kari Polanyi Levitt 1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Ramona Fradon 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Mary Costa 1931: Darryl Hickman / Ann Roth 1932: Joe Engle / Marisa Pavan Congrats again diego

Narrator: Rudolph Isley was not safe.

Hughes Van Ellis, younger brother of Viola Fletcher and himself a Tulsa race massacre survivor, dead at 102. Cause of death: shock from logging into his favorite forum, DeathList.net, and seeing his sister compared to Fraudster Singh.

Nah I just thought it was funny. I'm not seriously implying he's still alive. For those not in the loop, Butkus' Twitter was (in)famous for being run by someone who was clearly far younger than him. Is a pretty unexpected death though. Appeared at the Bears game on Sept 10 and seemed fine.

Good news, he has risen from his grave in record time to post on Twitter.

1923: Victor A. Lundy / Kari Polanyi Levitt 1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Ramona Fradon 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Mary Costa 1931: Darryl Hickman / Ann Roth 1932: Joe Engle / Marisa Pavan Congrats diego

Tim Wakefield dead at 57.

He posted a tribute to David McCallum on Instagram three hours ago, so I'm going to say no, he is not dead. If I ran the DL, I'd probably cut him next year. Looked and sounded great for his age last month: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvvf2kLuQRr/

Dead

1923: Victor A. Lundy / Kari Polanyi Levitt 1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Ramona Fradon 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Mary Costa 1931: Darryl Hickman / Ann Roth 1932: Joe Engle / Marisa Pavan Congrats MariNisia

This article is 13 hours old. I had to delete it from "deaths in 2023" on Wikipedia earlier today. Looking forward to the fourth random link you find to make a fail death announcement on here.

1923: Victor A. Lundy / Kari Polanyi Levitt 1924: Art Schallock / Polly Allen Mellen 1925: Lester Crown / Martha Firestone Ford 1926: Charles Dolan / Ramona Fradon 1927: Fred Risser / Barbara Dane 1928: Sidney Kimmel / Pilar Pallete 1929: Jerry Adler / Vikki Dougan 1930: Ion Iliescu / Mary Costa 1931: Darryl Hickman / Ann Roth 1932: Joe Engle / Marisa Pavan Congrats diego

A forum post by "Stefanie" isn't what I would call an obit. By that standard the original post on here could count.