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She was brilliant also as the perverted secretary in the Adam Sandler film The Longest Yard. The one good thing in that movie!

Another Simpsons regular guest star gone. RIP Mrs. Glick (Cloris)!

Leachman also stayed current and as such was closely associated with modern cinema/television, so it's easy to forget just how far back her career went. She was in the 1947 film Carnegie Hall... which also starred Marsha Hunt, 9 years her senior, who survives her ofc.

Daily Mail QO. A hit for over a dozen DDP teams.

She wasn’t “viciously attacked”, some guy on a moped just swiped her phone as he drove past. Google “moped gangs London”. Happens all the time in London (albeit it’s not as bad as it used to be). In the last company I worked in 10 of my colleagues had their mobiles swiped over a period of a month as they were walking down the street in The City. The moped riders are part of petty theft gang networks that operate across the whole of central London. They take the devices, wipe them clean then resell the parts to international markets where they’ll probably get 50% of what they sell for retail in the UK.

Telegraph obituary. Gives a date of death of 9th December 2020.

I concur. Truly awful film. Apocalyptic disaster movies always do well at the box office so the hype around it was pretty big and so many were disappointed.

And now Marcel Uderzo (wiki), brother of the above and comic book artist on the Asterix series, has died from COVID-19 aged 87.

@InquilineKea isn't a newb. Said user has been a member since 2007. That's longer than me and most of the other regular posters!

Hollywood Reporter obit. Quick pick up should guarantee a QO. Article confirms that he was indeed 95. Wiki, IMDb etc all erroneously had 1928. This’ll need changed on the DDP (not that it affects the scoring).

I wouldn't rule her out to be fair. She's obese (at least by standard of medical definition). She turns 50 this year, and she's a smoker. Often see her slurping on a glass of vino and puffing a large cigar(!) on the terrace of Parliament.

Your website is broken.

Inspiration or not, if their subsequent guest has a tight schedule to keep to then the correct thing to do is to respect that and honour the before planned timeslots. Not insulting your intelligence. Many people often misunderstand/forget the real purpose of the media or are in the dark about the true nature of it. I don't think you're unintelligent FTR, you're actually quite witty and you yourself will know that I frequently send positive reactions to your posts. I do however think you're often just on here to pick arguments or crack jokes, as you never post any news of deaths.

You can hardly claim that she was evading anything. For starters she volunteered to come on and do the interview. It was pretty long as well, she sat there for 14 minutes answering his questions. Coffey claimed it was supposed to start earlier than it had done. Assuming she isn't lying and that is the case then it's the producers and/or presenters who are at fault for not timing the show properly. Coffey said that she had another interview elsewhere to attend. I believe her. When ministers are dished out to do interviews they do them in rounds, typically in 30 minute slots consecutively. I remember well because I often had to book them. After she made the point, she elaborated on it. It wasn't until Morgan spun it into a tabloid-esque faux outrage angle of calling people "old" and "fat" that she was like "okay I'm buggering off now". The media are not anyone's pals or guardians @The Quim Reaper, I hope you realise that. They're not there as some kind of free charity of information or some great mediator of scrutiny. They're there to reel in viewers and listeners and make lots of fucking money. It was quite a boring interview until Morgan spun it, and that's why he did it. Cos he knows that somewhere people will post it and discuss it, all for those 10 seconds of controversy, otherwise it'd just be "another interview". Anyway, this is very off topic. Vid shouldn't have even been posted in here. There's a general off topic thread for the pandemic somewhere.

Gon tu-soon.

Twitter reporting the death of Hollywood Golden era actress Marie Harmon (wiki), aged 97.

You know fine well that wasn’t my point. There are ways of making a point without unnecessarily upsetting people. Pointing out that obesity kills is credible, walking up to someone and saying “you’re a fat cunt” is hurtful and unhelpful. Morgan’s rephrasing of what she said was on par with the latter and it derailed from the actual question he posed and the answer she gave. That’s my point.

She didn't like how Morgan rephrased it, which I agree was quite disrespectful. There are ways to make a point without directly insulting people. Morgan said it differently to try and stir controversy and upset people, which is what his ilk of journos do. When an interview is going at a boring pace, twist somebody's words or rephrase to make them sound piercing so the Twitter and FB feeds fill up with the faux outrage brigade. "Too old" doesn't make any sense of course. That's outside somebody's control unless you're Benjamin Button. "Too fat" makes perfect sense because in most cases people can control their own weight, but there are nicer ways of putting it, like Coffey tried to do before Morgan childishly bent it so it sounded more like a case of playground name calling.

Again, I reiterate an important point that both Morgan and Coffey totally missed – there is a big difference between asking why it spread so much/why we have so many cases (my 2 answers are the Gov's response and population density) vs. why we have so many deaths. A direct answer to why person X died is not "the government", because you're looking for medical reasons as to why the person didn't survive, and in most instances age and weight are the two biggest factors as to why their body couldn't win the fight.

I don’t like her. I know her personally and she’s a total bag, but I thought Morgan came across as the jackass. He asked a question, she actually gave a very direct and honest response then the co-hosts lynched her for it. She’s telling the absolute truth. High % of aged population and obesity levels are largely to account for more deaths. Now, had he asked why there’s been so many CASES on the other hand. Arguably part of the blame there is the Government’s response – both their strategy and response time, but the U.K. also has a very high population density which would account for the spread (and this is generally supported by the heat maps when looking at where the virus is spreading fastest). These are not simple questions with simple answers but good on her for being one of the few politicians to raise obesity. My local hospital is full of obese COVID patients in their 30s, 40s, 50s etc. Some will make it out alive but for the Government to continue pandering to PCness rather than making some very brief and poignant points about health risks which are totally within people’s own control, is quite frankly dangerous and irresponsible.

You’re too touchy about new thread creation. Sometimes it isn’t a bad thing you know.

Hmmm, if he died 2 days ago I would have thought it would be public by now so seems unbelievable. Holbrook is an interesting one. Retired from his Mark Twain role in September 2017 but vowed to keep making movies/TV shows. Never appeared in anything after 2017. I’m guessing that others noticed this as he’s a popular pick on the DDP this year.

Jorunn Kirkenær (wiki), Norwegian ballet dancer, dead at 94.

Edgar Meddings (wiki), who was the oldest living British male Olympian, died back on Christmas Day in Bath, aged 97. Competed in Bobsleigh in the 1948 Winter Olympics, served during WWII and was also a competitive cricketer. Oldest living British male competitor is now gymnast Jack Whitford (wiki) who just turned 97 and lives in Wales.

Happy 110th birthday to Amy Hawkins, the oldest person living in Wales! All 3 countries of Great Britain now have at least one person aged 110+. Been a few years since that last happened.