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So to update that six-year-old list of regular Bret Hart tag partners: Ten still alive. Wouldn't like to call the next faller... you'd fancy Bill Eadie from that list, but maybe ol' Mean Mark is thinking that death is preferable to a lifestyle of making shit podcasts and having to dance for Saudi oil money.

88th birthday today and somehow still alive. If this is a new photo, then she looks really good for someone who we all thought had days to live two years ago:

Every couple of years I rediscover that Marc Evan Jackson and Clark Gregg are different people. And neither of them played Kurt's dad in Glee.

Just come back from this, lovely little film, solid 8/10. Bunny Levine, who is also in the movie, really looks her age though (95). She's got that sort of old person look where you can no longer tell what race they are, they're just "old".

Coral Lorne, a "generic old person for hire" on 90s British TV but most famous as the granny in the video to Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" (the one the demon screams in the face of) apparently died in 2005 according to IMDB, but I can't see any back-up sources. However, being as she hasn't done any acting in the past 20 years, probably true.

He was still playing snooker and hitting century breaks last December, not exactly a sign of an imminent death. Unless you want Jack Lisowski on the list next year?

Anyone fancy seeing if we can find conclusive evidence for the alive/dead status of the four minor Muhammad Ali opponents I wrote about a couple of years ago? Robinson will surely remain forever lost. Miteff.... if he is alive, then he will have spent 13 years in a care home and be 89 this year. His care home is in Manhattan, after he retired from boxing he became a trainer at Stillman's Gym in New York. Was definitely on boxing historians' radars in the 2000s as he did interviews then, so I'm tempted to say he's still alive, but... 13 years in a care home? Warner I have no clue. Willing to promote Logan to 100% definitely alive as he's a big character in his local area (was the local truant officer, ran a bowling alley) and there's video footage here of him two years ago.

That same guy was talking about Reardon's illness last month, and he had the right location for where Reardon currently lives (or not as the case may be) in Torquay. Leaning towards legit.

Eliyahu Rips, Israeli mathematician who co-penned the original paper on the Bible code (the belief that there are hidden messages in the Bible/Torah that can be found by computers), dead at 75. Someone I assumed would have been much older and long dead tbh.

I'm picking Noam like a pensioner at a garden centre.

"Yeah, I know they've been having problems for ages..... since January I think.... something like the longest streak of the 21st century? I mean they should have picked.... right, yeah.... oh really they've broken it? Finally, Jimmy Carter has d.... wait what?"

Great show Hacks btw, finally a modern-day "prestige" TV program that doesn't just do the same fucking season over and over again.

"Ducky" Louie's real name is Lawrence Louie. He was definitely still alive in 2019 when he was listed as a "survived by" in his sister's obituary.

Video of Auber from her 99th birthday: https://www.instagram.com/aytljensen/reel/C6TzDSYif_b/?locale=ko-KR

Richard Pauptit, cruciverbalist who set crosswords for The Independent as Dutch, died last month aged 69.