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At least she lived long enough to hear one of her songs turned into an actual banger.

My money's on Queen Bee.

The more this goes on, the more I think it's gonna be Mayor Pete.

It didn't when he was dead!

OK, now it's being claimed that's not true. Yep, it's another Tommasso Debenedetti hoax.

Dead on the wires. Foreign language link

Any excuse to post a link to that story about how Paul Simon was a bullshitter of the highest order and would have been killed by South African militants had Little Stevie Van Zandt not intervened.

Single gay men in their 40s. So effectively, yes.

Biblio has to be favourite here thanks to Spinks right?

The Mayor of MacDougal Street left office today in 2002, when Dave Van Ronk died aged 65

Can you really be a character actor if you were only in one film?

Harry Belafonte is one of only six pre-1960 winners of a Tony award still alive, and the only male. The other five are June Lockhart, Helen Gallagher, Pat Stanley, Julie Newmar and Yvonne Constant.

Surely Douglas will be in next year's package?

Franco Zeffirelli and Peter Fonda are 3/1 faves. Doris Day 6/1, Hal Prince 8/1, Rutger Hauer 10/1.

Linda went on to be in Hype, who supported "...And Party" era Take That on tour.

Journeyman Brazilian striker Andre Neles, who had an unsuccessful spell at Benfica in the early 2000s, dead at 42. Not particularly notable except for the fact he was one of the numerous foreign players nationalised by the government of Equatorial Guinea in an attempt to bolster their national team. Didn't do much for them: three caps, zero goals.

@gcreptile now installed as DDP favourite?

Big credit to anyone who took the risk, saw it and discarded it during my prep work.

Didn't know Kirk was involved in the vogue scene.

Ace in the Hole

Alice Mayhew, the literary editor for All The President's Men, dead at 87. She went on to edit 19 books by Bob Woodward (including 2018's Fear: Trump In The White House), as well as works by Jimmy Carter and Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

IMDB now has a death listed for Bob Hamlin (2010), so we can add Lady and the Tramp to the list.

Just a random click but it does mean a complete confirmed death sweep for the entire cast (both credited and known extras) of 1936's Thank You, Jeeves!

2016.....

Robert Alner, trainer of 1998 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Cool Dawn, dead at 76.