themaninblack

I'd have it as a weekly show (50 weeks) which profiles each of the candidates. If one dies before they are covered, their profile is shown as an obit. Then add other features, a bit of debate, a phone-in (making suggestions for the following year lists) and interviews with relatives of the (soon to be) deceased (without them knowing the true context of the interview). Maybe even a competition (guess who's next!). I think it has great potential. I can see the headline now.....TV's sickest show ever!

Surely it is noe the death of celebrity in that case... Then again I've always felt that the public choose who is the most 'real' person to win BB.

Not a particularly original headline, it's probably cribbed from the Leicester City fanzine of the same name. What gets me about the Sun today is its unctiousness. The old Sun in the 70s/80s were bolder, cruder and to the point. They were bastards, but you knew where you where with them. The Sun in recent years is rather more slippery, more sneaky insult than outright abuse. And just as they propped up Thatcher in the 80s, so they're doing so to Blair, even though most of the journos hate everything about the Labour movement. All because its not in their owners interest to go against New Labour....yet! They even do this 'some of my best friends are' nonsense with the Halibut woman they have in it. Seems like a front to me. It seems that they picked out a pretty asian, stuffed her in a Burka and asked her smile, some other hack does the rest. Perhaps I'm being harsh on the actual journos as its the sub-editors who are the true enemy: They are the ones who print quotes out of context and turn stories into lurid and hysterical headlines....

A Deathlist TV programme is around the corner methinks (Bravo perhaps?) I think the Keef story is a load of bollocks, a Sun journo wants to cause a rumpus over the Deathlist. You know how these things snowball. One casual mention in the currant bun will soon lead to questions in the House of Commons, calls to ban the website before the coppers come marching in....or maybe not!

Did anyone know that ex-presidents are still called president after they've left office? BTW: Longest living ex-PM: James Callaghan (92 years, 364 days)

All I know is that he has retired quietly to his ranch...

Any health news? None. He's just old that's all...

Actor Olaf Pooley (b.1916) Olaf Pooley

Isn't that the second or third death from Reservior Dogs amongst the actors in recent years?

Richard looks bollocksed in those pictures, well on the way to a stroke even then! Sally Thomsett was alright, but I would steer from fellatio if you value your foreskin....

We have four centenarians on the list, surely the law of averages suggest at one to get the finger....I'll plump for Hoffman to cark it!

It's apt that Chris Burney is in a band with the word 'Bowling' since he looks like a massive bowling ball with a head on top...

That CNN report was a virtual obituary. Still I didn't know he was a member of the Warren Commission. Surely a cert for 2006...

That's depending on when he gets found... I bet there's some bloke in Wales with a betting slip, still waiting on Richey Edwards...

...and there was a new Dr Who..... The Pope got shot in 1981, but didn't die. His predecessor died in 1978 Same year Liverpool won the European Cup!

After getting it spot on with Lou Rawls but missing big with Shelley Winters, how well will the Deathlist for 2006 fare?

Alex St Clair, guitarist for Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band died 5th January Alex St Clair Wrong member of the Magic Band goddamit! I want the big guy with the hat...

She was one of mine as well. Along with Lou Rawls. This could be a good year...

quod erat demonstrandum.....

I can't believe you missed her out, she was a dead cert. I had her on my DDP...

Strokes are the new Heart Attacks!

It's quite ironic that in the week of the creator of LSD's 100th birthday, that its most famous victim celebrates his 60th....

Hmm true. He always reminded me of another actor.. Alan Dobie who was Cribb in the early 1980s TV show of the same name...

Yeah, but they're a bit like monarchs really. The World's oldest man has died...long live the World's oldest man!

British character actor John Woodnutt has died aged 84 Everyone seems to be starting the year with new Avatars, must get a new one....