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Mirror, Sun, Star, Express.

Yup, you're right on both counts. Sun obit for David Banks... and they refer to him as a "Fleet Street legend". Self-indulgent media wankery right there.

A WhatsApp group what with a dick pic as the avatar is probably a more reliable source than any of the Yank gossip sites... Also, sounds like a more productive and healthy use of one's time. Masturbation = healthy for the body and the soul Reading U.S. celebrity gossip sites = kills your brain cells for sure.

The article literally says the source is the "Royal Kingdom". Also, on the Wendy Williams shite that they're churning out...

“Socialites, it is with our deepest regret to inform you that Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has died. Sources close to the Royal Kingdom notified us exclusively that Queen Elizabeth has passed away. She was scheduled to attend the wedding of British Vogue editor Edward Enninful, but was found dead.” You ain’t going to be eating any humble pie mate. We’ve covered this before but it’s worth repeating for those who are unaware of this – there is a very specific procedure in place for when the Queen dies. A small group of ppl know before it goes directly to the Associated Press. The chance of it landing on Twitter or a gossip site first is absolutely zero.

Thing is with Ian, I don’t get why he bothers. His tweets get no traction whatsoever. I think in his head he thinks it’s just a matter of time before a tweet like this gets 10k RTs. It ain’t going to happen.

NME. Variety. Some places online very generously refer to him as co-lead vocalist of QOTSA. He was never really more than a guest star. Still a big name. Sad news.

And that will serve as a QO for the team which has him as a unique DDP pick. The QOs for Chor and Brooker now push us ahead again in # of hits vs. # of days (55 vs. 53).

Updated both of the 60s and 70s entries of Procol Harum for the death of Gary Brooker.

Confirmed via the Procol Harum website.

Crossposting from the Detective thread. Joan Curry, another of my picks died in autumn 2020. If I'm allowed a new pick I'll take Satya Mohan Joshi please.

I was led to believe that there are another serious of cuts coming to the BBC(??) so I'm not at all surprised that some of the more marmite big guns are either being pushed or offered an altered role with a reduced sum that they've turned down.

The GRO Index update reveals that Joan Curry died in the 3rd quarter of 2020, aged 101. HUGHESMAN, PATRICIA JOAN 1918 GRO Reference: DOR Q3/2020 in KINGSTON UPON THAMES (240-1C) Entry Number 520978177 FFS. I have her picked on the Centenarians deadpool. Serves me right for trying to be clever with slightly more obscure names. Kudos to @Spade_Cooley who noticed that her son had been grieving over a loss of some kind on Facebook in autumn 2020.

Interesting that you see it that way. Many Conservatives think that the BBC is ridiculously left leaning. Many lefties think its too cuddled up to the government etc. The answer is it's neither. There is bias in all of their political programming to some degree. Some of it fits one person's narrative, some of it fits others. When the BBC send their foreign correspondent to a press conference in Ukraine and despite a threat of an invasion (which has now materialised), all he wants to ask the PM at said conference are questions about a fucking cake, I ask questions. When Maitlis, who gives the Government a hard time and has (very partisan) opening "monologues" (in reality rants) at the start of her programme and then all of a sudden leaves, you ask questions. The BBC is a huge beast that covers all manners of programming, including tackling some very partisan areas. It's never going to please everyone, and indeed in this day and age, it's becoming ever more likely it will please nobody. The argument that we should abolish the licence fee/privatise it is becoming far more legitimate as time passes, and whilst it had fringe support even 10 years ago, the majority now back it.

Wrong thread... plus it was already reported in the punk thread.

That's true. Sadly for some African countries, record keeping was still poor right up until the 1950s/60s. Other countries in Asia, South America etc. had much better records by the late 1920s, and so we should see more supercentenarians being verified from those continents in a decade or two. One thing having a keen interest in longevity has taught me is that there are so many barefaced liars in the world, even amongst older generations who should know better and you'd expect to have a lot more decorum and respect by that point e.g. Fauja Singh, Ruby Muhammad, Buster Martin etc. etc.

73?

Facebook post announcing the death of American painter Harry Carmean (wiki), aged 99.

Radio Times got it correct too.

If ever proof were needed that The Mirror employs poundshop journos, the fact that they can't even cut and paste information available to them via the Associated Press is pretty poor (let alone the fact that it clearly wasn't proof read before someone pressed "publish")... they give Bevan's age as "93" four times in their write up of him.

I think he was born in Aberdeen but grew up and was schooled in London so not sure that's a relevant point in the same way it is for types who did move south as part of their career, e.g. Ben Wallace, Liam Fox, Michael Gove, IDS, Sir Teddy Taylor, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Dame Eleanor Laing, Iain Stewart etc. etc.

This seems like pretty good confirmation to me. Says his wife called an ambulance, he was in hospital for 2 hours then passed. I think he had dementia since about 2014(?) though so not news he was on his last legs.

Time for a round-up of the oldest living winners and nominees. Listed below is everyone turning 95+ in 2022: Bill Butler b. 7 Apr 1921, cinematographer (nominee – "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", 1975) DDP pick Walter Mirisch b. 8 Nov 1921, producer (winner – "In the Heat of the Night", 1967) DDP pick Norman Lear b. 27 Jul 1922, screenwriter (nominee – "Divorce American Style", 1967) DDP pick Peter Berkos b. 15 Aug 1922, sound editor (winner – "The Hindenburg", 1975) not picked Glynis Johns b. 5 Oct 1923, actress (nominee – "The Sundowners", 1960) DDP pick Eva Marie Saint b. 4 Jul 1924, actress (winner – "On the Waterfront", 1954) DDP pick Alan Bergman b. 11 Sep 1925, songwriter (3 wins, 13 more nominations) DDP pick Jean-Charles Tacchella b. 23 Sep 1925, screenwriter (nominee – "Cousin Cousine", 1975) not picked Phyllis Dalton MBE b. 16 Oct 1925, costume designer (2 wins – "Doctor Zhivago", 1965 and "Henry V", 1989, 1 more nomination) DDP pick Dame Angela Lansbury b. 16 Oct 1925, actress (winner – honorary award, 3 more nominations) DDP pick Lee Grant b. 31 Oct 1925, actress (winner – "Shampoo", 1975, 3 more nominations) DDP pick Albert Brenner b. 17 Feb 1926, art director (5 nominations) not picked Roger Corman b. 5 Apr 1926, director (winner – honorary award) DDP pick Mel Brooks b. 28 Jun 1926, screenwriter and songwriter (winner – "The Producers", 1969, 2 more nominations) DDP pick Norman Jewison b. 21 Jul 1926, director (winner – honorary award, 7 more nominations) DDP pick Laurence Rosenthal b. 4 Nov 1926, composer (2 nominations) DDP pick Lawrence Turman b. 28 Nov 1926, producer (nominee – "The Graduate", 1967) not picked Arthur Cohn b. 4 Feb 1927, documentary producer (3 wins, 1 more nomination) DDP pick Harry Belafonte b. 1 Mar 1927, singer-songwriter and actor (winner – honorary award) DDP pick Rosemary Harris b. 19 Sep 1927 actress (nominee – "Tom & Viv", 1994) DDP pick Marcel Ophuls b. 1 Nov 1927 documentary filmmaker (winner – "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie", 1988) not picked Estelle Parsons b. 20 Nov 1927 actress (winner – Bonnie and Clyde", 1967, 1 more nomination) DDP pick 22 names in total I believe, but correct me if I've missed anyone.

COVID wouldn't tend to kill a 31 year old within a week. EDIT: Jamal Edwards did a lot of work on mental health and suicide prevention, particularly on the stigma surrounding men. My hunch is on "offed himself".

Official death notice here says born 1929, so she was 92.