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His career was notable enough on its own that he would have managed a newswire QO even if his name wasn't Harry Connick, although I doubt he would have been picked in the DDP.

Harry Connick, Louisiana district attorney from 1973 to 2003, dead at 97. He was also the father of some guy.

He was a Film Roman VP for four-five years, that isn't generally the type of thing that people scramble to write obits for. He worked under Lolee Aries, who also had two more Emmys than him (and a Wiki page), and her death got nothing outside of Facebook.

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He looks very well for 90 in the BTS stuff for The Palace. I think he'll probably have a couple more years in him before he becomes worth DL consideration.

I argued for him to be put on the list and had him on my own, but I would still say not really. Didn't seem to have any health issues and was still out and about, so would have just been a random old guy (though a fairly prestigious one). Also, I think the DL committee isn't generally interested in filmmakers outside of the ultra-famous ones. Godard seems like their only recent pick in terms of guys who are really only notable behind the camera. They didn't go for Zeffirelli, Donen, Neame, Lewis Gilbert, Peter Brook, haven't picked Corman, Jodorowsky, etc

I had a feeling he'd see triple digits. He wrote this fairly long tribute to Alan Arkin last summer, and he looked pretty good for 97 a few months ago IMO: Another failure to consider the fact that not everyone makes it to 100 or is beyond 100 on my part.

Norman Jewison dead: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/norman-jewison-dead-moonstruck-1235803603/

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 / Elaine May 1933: Michael Parenti / Cissy Houston

Bill Hayes a hit for Bibliogryphon. Congratulations. 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 / Elaine May 1933: Michael Parenti / Cissy Houston

Bill Hayes dead at 98.

I think he has looked to have aged quite a bit for about 40 years now, so I don't think there's much out of the ordinary there. (Btw, googling shows it's from last September when he was honored by the Virginia General Assembly.)

I put him on my DC animation theme team (which is mostly just random picks). There's a post on his Instagram from the 2nd, so yeah, he's still going. Not that relevant, but I doubt he wouldn't QO. He'd be guaranteed to get a THR obit for playing the bad guy in The Eiger Sanction and Mortal Kombat Annihilation (in addition to his roles in Babylon 5, Star Trek, Batman Beyond, Murder She Wrote, etc.)

Brian McConnachie (wiki) reportedly died a few days ago, aged 81. His honors include writing for National Lampoon, SCTV, and Saturday Night Live, acting in seven Woody Allen films, and penning the Simpsons episode that guest-starred Justin Bieber.

Joe Bugner, just to have the joy of clicking his name.

Given "Curtains for Johns" and "Drapes Closed", how about "Beckenbauer Shutters"?

Thanks all. Frankly I'm mildly annoyed I even went with Shane on the list, given I figured this was his year (I even jokered him on the CorrectList). But looking through the survivors, I can't see any I would've picked otherwise, outside of maybe Burrow, so I guess no harm done. Shout-out to Glynis for hanging on for a few days. Looking forward to trying again soon!

I'll try Olav Thon.

They do have Louis Farrakhan a year older than he really is. Hope they didn't based the pick on him dying at 92.

Tron and Caddyshack star Cindy Morgan dead: https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/06/caddyshack-tron-star-cindy-morgan-dead-dies/

Here's a Reuters obit for Mario Zagallo, who is a hit for DoorSlammer. Congratulations. 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 / Elaine May 1933: Michael Parenti / Cissy Houston

Former NYT editor Joseph Lelyveld dead: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/business/media/joseph-lelyveld-dead.html He was a DDP pick last year, so, yeah.

I'm not sure if this was ever noted on here, but Rolf Harris' death was actually added to Wikipedia the day it happened by an editor who got the information "from a close friend of his". A week later (while it still wasn't public) he commented about the revert on his talk page "it is nice bit of finesse and I wasn't privi to it, so you helped in keeping a secret."

In recent times, MF DOOM's death not being announced for two months is probably as long as it gets for someone with such a following. Doesn't really fit the "major" part and it wasn't traditionally announced, but Catherine Burns also deserves a shout for being an Oscar-nominated actress who was dead for over a year off radar.

He was on it last year.