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Men: 1. Sandy Gallin 2. Vinod Khanna 2. Thomas S Monson Women: 1. Princess Prerana of Nepal 2. Marion Brighton 3. Sonja Durham Beaten to Sandy Gallin by a matter of seconds, will swap him for Akis Tsochatzopoulos

Sully. It was nominated for a fucking Oscar.

Baby Peggy

Commenter on The Stage calling "fake news":

Obit in The Stage: https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/2017/obituary-jane-freeman/

Big few days for Silvio, the Berlusconi era at AC Milan may finally, finally, finally be over (unless these Chinese guys turn out to just be him in a Fu Manchu tache and rice paddy hat), and he's also joined a vegetarian campaign aimed at stopping Italians eating lamb at easter:

Q: WHAT DID THE FIVE FINGERS SAY TO THE FACE? A: Charlie Murphy is dead at 57 from leukaemia.

Michael Ballhaus, cinematographer for Goodfellas (and a three-time Oscar nominee for his work on Broadcast News, The Fabulous Baker Boys and Gangs of New York), dead at 81.

Lou Bega

May, thankfully, be a whole lot of nothing... Marc Bartra hospitalised with some cuts to the arm, Marca claiming it was a firecracker thrown by over-enthusiastic fans. The idea that Monaco now have ultras confuses me greatly.

Brian Clough's favourite band, if memory serves.

Did what I think just happened happen?

RateYourMusic reckons that 28 members of the Ink Spots have died: Everett Barksdale (April 28, 1907-Jan. 8, 1986) Joseph Boatner (Sept. 27, 1918-May 8, 1989) Billy "Butterball" Bowen (Jan. 3, 1909-Sept. 27, 1982) James O Bradley (June 15, 1923-Dec. 13, 2002) Jerry Daniels (Dec. 14, 1915-Nov. 7, 1995) Bill Doggett (Feb. 16, 1916-Nov. 13, 1996) Charlie Fuqua (Oct. 20, 1910-Dec. 21, 1971) Kurt Geisler (Jan. 1, 1925-Aug. 23, 2002) Cliff Givens (Jan. 17, 1918-June 6, 1989) Asa Harris (April 1, 1910-June 11, 1964) Orville Jones (Feb. 17, 1902-Oct. 18, 1944) Bill Kenny (June 12, 1914-March 23, 1978) Herb Kenny (June 12, 1914-July 7, 1992) Ramon Loper (Nov. 25, 1935-Oct. 16, 2002) Huey Long (April 25, 1904-June 10, 2009) Bernie Mackey (July 29, 1909-March 5, 1980) Adriel McDonald (May 10, 1905-Sept. 1, 1987) David McNeil (1932-Jan. 7, 2005) Stanley Morgan (1922-Nov. 21, 1989) Gene Mumford (June 24, 1925-May 10, 1977) Jimmie Nabbie (1920-Sept. 15, 1992) Simon Payne (July 28, 1925-July 26, 2002) Al Rivers (1927-Feb. 17, 1993) Alexander Sharp (1919-Jan. 1970) Judge Smith (Sept. 22, 1913-Aug. 15, 1993) Ray Tunia (May 10, 1916-Aug. 16, 1983) Lloyd Washington (1920-June 22, 2004) Ivory Watson (July 18, 1909-Nov. 4, 1969)

Because it happened in 2012?

Not just KvE, the Monster Factory trained some of the biggest names in the game including this thread graduates Bam Bam Bigelow, Pitbull #2, Rocco Rock and Balls Mahoney, and future this thread members The Headbangers, Tony Atlas, Tatanka and JT Southern.

"I love yelling. It feels good and it's good for you. That's why Sam Kinison lived so long."

Watching the pretty mediocre/completely bullshit Amazon docu-drama on Hef at the moment. Couple of Hefner-aligned figures of note - We missed the death of Hef's #2 at the magazine's launch, Eldon Sellers, last year. Also Millie Williams/Gunn, his first wife, is still with us at 91.

Pretty sure all of Viola Beach are gone.

See I had heard of him: he was the style columnist for American GQ for fucking ages and was apparently the person who coined the phrase "editor-in-chief". Post-whoring, man.

Off-piste tip here: Fin Martin, longtime editor of PowerSlam Magazine (the UK's foremost/only pro-wres publication throughout the 90s and 00s) has announced he will no longer be writing about wrestling any more full stop. One of the reasons the magazine ceased publication (back in 2014 iirc) was a battle he was having with skin cancer at the time. He'd almost certainly sneak an obit in the Mirror if he died.

Vinod Khanna hospitalised for "dehydration" officially, but this photo doesn't exactly suggest a couple of bottles of Snapple will see him right:

Sam Sheppard fit a lot into his 46 years before dying today in 1970: neurosurgeon, subject of a media witch hunt, wrongfully imprisoned for ten years for his wife's murder, inspiring The Fugitive and a professional wrestling career.

Corby smells like dried vinegar on a dinner plate.

Brian has left this mortal coil by mutual consent aged 88.

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