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Wrong three-name Ruth much?? 1923: Al Quie / Ruth Stiles Gannett 1924: Herbert Gold / Carole Cook 1925: Jacques Delors / Virginia Zeani 1926: Tony Bennett / Doreen Mantle 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

Announced to compose Hirokazu Kore-eda's new movie Monster. Comes out in June, so I guess he's got something to live for.

Zeffirelli also wrote the foreword to her memoir, which came out in the far-off pre-MeToo year of... 2018.

Yeah, it's true. Here's the funeral home listing.

The guy who made the Bowey surname page listed both of them at the same time. I guess he wasn't curious about there being two English wrestlers with similar names at the same Olympics...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Bowey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Bowey Heh, looks like he has two Wikipedia pages (created in 2018 and 2019). The second one got his DOB right, it appears, though.

I don't figure he'll ever make the DL but I would expect that anyone in the UK with a passing interest in older Hollywood stuff would know who Holliman is. After all he's one of the few living guys from a number of big movies (Forbidden Planet, Giant, The Big Combo, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Rainmaker, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, etc.), along with the TV stuff already mentioned above.

Nice, a great opportunity to steal all the jokes everyone else has already made about "Elton Jhon" and the King of England.

2. Henry Kissinger 3. Bob Barker 5. Nigel Starmer-Smith 6. Jimmy Carter 7. Tony Bennett 9. Harry Belafonte 11. Jacques Delors 14. Norman Tebbit 15. Rosalynn Carter 17. Joanne Woodward 21. Joss Ackland 23. Milan Kundera 33. Imelda Marcos 34. Pervez Musharraf 38. Rolf Harris 44. Sonny Rollins 50. Shane MacGowan (joker)

Jeremy Renner in "critical but stable condition" after a snowplowing mishap.

Why? He was liking posts well after that awful article says he "died", including one as recently as yesterday. And I highly doubt the "dear friend" in the article even knew him, or was intending to kill him off. He's a Georgetown University employee whose Facebook appears to largely be viral Internet posts with his commentary.

No, just one of those auto-generated "obituaries". He liked a tweet less than 24 hours ago.

Glad he was picked. Would have expected him to go unselected because he isn't much of a presence in the UK, but he's probably the most famous living centenarian and an A-lister over here. Not sure he'll die this year, though; he seems to be doing incredible for his age (but, y'know, 100, never know). Also, is it just me or is the link to his thread on the list busted?

Randy Jackson enters for me with Jeremiah Green's death. I'll leave him as the joker.

Jeremiah Green dead. That was fast.

Yeah, I think an improvement on last year is pretty feasible. Lot of people on here who surely can't have much longer left (Ackland, Barker, Bennett, the Carters, Delors, Harris, Kissinger, Kundera, Le Pen, Rollins, Tebbit, Wagner), along with a few who are generically old enough to realistically bite it (Baxter, Gall, Laine, Lear, Newhart) and younger ill ones (Musharraf, Nolan, Sakamoto, Taylor). Sure, the additions like Dickinson over Glynis Johns/Eva Marie Saint and Alda, Duvall, and Linden are a little bizarre, and dropping guys like Kaczynski/Whale and failing to add Roberta Flack are headscratchers, but the list we have mostly plays it pretty safe. (And hell, maybe one of the four I just mention will bite the dust. Don't think many thought Loretta Lynn was an especially good pick this time last year.)

Looking forward to participating in this 1923: Al Quie / Ruth Stiles Gannett 1924: Herbert Gold / Carole Cook 1925: Jacques Delors / Virginia Zeani 1926: Tony Bennett / Doreen Mantle 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

Rollins

Agreed. He has an Oscar and a Grammy and he has considerable influence outside of his home country; don't think you can make much of an argument for the others.

Wasn't posted here, but he gave an update on his Parkinson's in October where he basically said he feels good and doesn't have many significant issues. Surprised to see him on the list. I reckon he'll be the type to decline gradually, but he's still doing a weekly podcast as has been mentioned many times and looks fine so I don't imagine that'll be in the near future.

Honestly respect the chutzpah of keeping him at #1 after everyone complained about it.

I'll repeat myself: as far as actors in their early 90s go, this seems like a weak pick. Starred in an off-Broadway play last summer, still can walk without aid, travels frequently and clearly isn't senile either. I feel like he'll make 2024.

Other thoughts: Pleased to see Lear made the list, would have thought he isn't enough of a UK name. Alda and Dickinson seem like strange additions. I'm a little skeptical about Hurd and Kaczynski being dropped. Mildly surprised they kept Faithfull and Cheney. Will probably do a longer review of the list later because I simply like writing lists, but at the moment I'm feeling a similar finish to this year. ~15 or so.

They dropped Whale? Wow.

Linden starred in an off-Broadway play this summer and still does plenty of long interviews (September/October). If someone had said in 2013 Betty White was likely going to die after she'd spent a year doing all that, they would rightfully be side-eyed.