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Sesame Street co-creator Lloyd Morrisett dead at 93.

Yoshio Yoda, Fuji on McHale's Navy, dead at 88.

New Variety article about his health and last days, if anyone's curious. [Steve] Postell was on the phone with Crosby on Wednesday morning, going over plans they were laying for a two-night stand in Santa Barbara, set for Feb. 22-23, with plans to have the shows recorded for a possible live album. The planned shows, a 150th anniversary celebration of the Lobero Theatre, would have set the template for a tour to follow at mid-year. After hanging up with Crosby late in the morning, Postell spent the afternoon rehearsing the full set list they’d plotted out, staying in communication with James Raymond, Crosby’s son and a fellow member of the band. In the evening, Postell wrapped up his solo rehearsal and texted “Croz” with further thoughts, only to shortly get a text back from Raymond that his father had died. “There was some misinformation” about Crosby, 81, having been seriously ill, Postell says, “but there always is. It’s hard for people to get the straight story.” A press release that went out from a publicist unknown to most reporters, quoting Crosby’s wife as saying he died after a long illness, muddled the matter in the media, since the singer had not been known to be seriously ill. “That’s a very confusing thing,” says the musician. “He was a weakened guy from a lot of different preexisting conditions, and everyone knew it — he talked about it in his documentary [2019’s “David Crosby: Remember My Name] — but he was not dying. We were rehearsing. We were going out to dinner.”

Something buggy with team notes? Noticed a few of them that were listed earlier have turned into 0s. Looks like my themes (DCAU/Family Guy/MST3K) are 20/60 unique. Feel free to take me to task if you think they're stupid.

Chicago DJ Lin Brehmer dead at 68. DDP pick.

A's/Brewers legend (and Simpsons guest star) Sal Bando dead at 78.

Died June 30, 2017 per MyLife.

Wally Campo dead at 99.

His publicists seem pretty mum in every article I've read so far. I doubt anyone saying they know the cause for sure isn't just guessing. The NYT obit indicates he died on the evening of the 18th. Given he appeared as active as usual yesterday, it seems hard to believe he would simultaneously have been dying of elongated COVID.

No, there's still confirmation from his rep in the article. (Not to mention Rolling Stone and Billboard confirmed it with his family. If he is still alive, it would be an unprecedented fuckup. )

On the subject of useless stats: how many other DL misses were dropped after three or more consecutive appearances? I know Alec Guinness was on his fourth or something before he was dropped and missed, but most of the others seem to be capped at two.

You're probably right. I went looking through newsdirect's site, and they don't seem to release obits very often. The only other one I came across was Herbert Kohler Jr. back in September. Explains the... strange, I guess, rollout of this news.

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)  1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32)  1990: Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (4/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, George Lineker (3/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson (1/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50)  1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50)  2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50)  2002: (0/50)  2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: (0/50)  2010: (0/50)  2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50)  2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Henry Kissinger (1/50)  2014: Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett (2/50)   2015: Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (2/50)  2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (6/50)  2017: Jimmy Carter, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Emperor Akihito (4/50)  2018: Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (12/50)  2019: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Prunella Scales, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (12/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (18/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, David Crosby, Prunella Scales, Tony Bennett, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Harry Belafonte, Bob Newhart, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Betty Boothroyd, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Raul Castro, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty (28/50)  2022: Dick Van Dyke, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Jimmy Carter, Tony Bennett, Dick Cheney, Harry Belafonte, Mel Brooks, Bobby Charlton, David Attenborough, Emperor Akihito, Rosalynn Carter, Sandy Gall, Desmond Morris, Ted Kaczynski, Jean-Marie Le Pen, James Whale, Cleo Laine, Jacques Delors, Denis Law, Prunella Scales, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Noam Chomsky, Norman Tebbit, David Crosby, Michael Gambon, Douglas Hurd, Silvio Berlusconi, Marianne Faithfull, Milan Kundera, Linda Ronstadt, Joss Ackland, Shane MacGowan (35/50) Updated for David Crosby.

It's real. Variety obit. Quotes his wife directly. EDIT: Also, I just saw the statement was always up on Newsdirect's site. They were dissed in this thread earlier, but if you google their founder, he has loads of PR experience and definitely wouldn't publish bullshit. My question is... given their releases get automatically scraped, what the hell took so long for the other sources?

Soul singer Renée Geyer dead at 69. Mentioned a few times in this thread for her hard style of living. Was seemingly done in by complications from hip surgery, which also happened to discover inoperable lung cancer...

Tap dancer Arthur Duncan dead at 97. You might have heard the story of Betty White refusing to remove him from her show because of his race in the 1950s. Was a DDP pick last year.

1923: Al Quie / Ruth Stiles Gannett 1924: Herbert Gold / Priscilla Pointer 1925: Jacques Delors / June Lockhart 1926: Tony Bennett / Marilyn Knowlden 1927: Harry Belafonte / Cleo Laine 1928: Earl Holliman / Ethel Kennedy 1929: Len Deighton / Terry Moore 1930: Sonny Rollins / Katherine Jackson 1931: Norman Tebbit / Bridget Riley 1932: Nigel Lawson / Nancy Kassebaum

Gino Odjick dead at 52

Miiko Taka Hollywood Reporter obit. Worth quoting this part: 1. THR definitely read this forum. 2. The family don't want to give out any details, but presumably edited Wikipedia?

Whoops, I thought it said last name too. When can I expect my lashing

Evel's son Robbie Knievel dead at 60.

Lisa Marie Presley dead at 54.

Lisa Marie Presley now in an induced coma on life support

Carole Cook dead, a hit for myself. New round? 1923: Al Quie / Ruth Stiles Gannett 1924: Herbert Gold / Priscilla Pointer 1925: Jacques Delors / Virginia Zeani 1926: Tony Bennett / Marilyn Knowlden 1927: Doc Severinsen / Cleo Laine 1928: Earl Holliman / Ruth Westheimer 1929: Al Worthington / Terry Moore 1930: Sonny Rollins / Katherine Jackson 1931: John Norman / Bridget Riley 1932: Andrew Young / Nancy Kassebaum

Carole Cook dead at 98.