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  1. Andy, don't post up those piggies for free on the timeline, make some money on FeetFinder.
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    Tony Blackburn

    Healthy enough to take over the Radio 2 breakfast show this morning to mark 60 years of pirate radio.
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    Gangster, Gangster

    How come Frankie Fraser's never on the TV any more? He was never off the bloody thing in the late 90s. Is there some, like, Sky 3 or Bravo documentary series he hosts now, or is he just dying in a home alone and unloved somewhere? People who I crossed off my DDP team for this year at the last minute: "cancer stricken" Glaswegian crimelord Jamie Daniel, because I have absolutely no idea about Scottish crime whatsoever and for all I know these guys could just be having a laugh and a carry on with bored local crime reporters. Most of the current capi of the American Mafia are in their 70s and unlikely to be shot any time soon. On the other hand, Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano turns 90 this year, having spent 15 of the past 18 years in prison for his part in an extortion racket that saw the Mafia make $2 for every window replaced in New York for five years.
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    Internet Celebrities

    I mentioned in the "Fringes of Fame" thread that beloved-by-roidhead internet "fitness" guru Zyzz died in a gay sauna yesterday aged 22, and somehow this has actually made eight actual real Australian newspapers, according to Google News. I was disinterestedly scouring Spankwire, as you do, and was reminded of the existence of Tila Tequila. At one point she was the most popular person on MySpace (ask your grandparents). She then went on to have a brief career as a celebrity, but after the MTV reality shows ran out it was just her being bottled off-stage at gigs and having whoever she stuck her tongue into that week die on her. She strikes me as a good candidate for a TMZ-friendly overdose within the next few years. Anyway, there's loads of these "internet famous" folk nowadays and we need a thread for them I feel. Maybe Tron Guy will battle a brave fight against cancer or that guy from Evolution of Dance will go mad and shoot up a shopping mall. Talk about these guys here. Or don't.
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    Death, Italian Style

    Alright, there's enough of us on here now to have earned our own topic. Andrea Camilleri, Topo Gigio creator Maria Perego, Nico Fidenco, Omero Antonutti... this is where they go when they experience La Dolce Morte.
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    The 100 Club

    A thread for people who have passed the age of 100 but have (very, very) faint claims to fame other than "just being old". The lifeblood of many a DDP theme team, really, may as well get them all in one place. Plus it gives me an excuse to have a regular meeting point for two of my favourites: 110-year-old paranormal investigator Alexander Imich and 107-year-old financier Irving Kahn, who apparently still goes to work daily. Check out his current stock portfolio here. Anyway, so here's where we can rhapsodise about Run Run Shaw, Roy Douglas and Vo Nguyen Giap and the many public appearances they'll no doubt be making in the near future. One of the leading actors of the pre-blaxploitation era cowboy "race movies", Herb Jeffries, just turned 100.
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    Dying Off The Radar

    A catch-all thread I've been toying around with for a bit, for when you get stuck down a research hole and find someone of (minor) fame died a few years back with no mention on here, or indeed in the wider media. Anne Sellors, a Sheffield-based drama teacher who shot to viral internet fame due to her IMDB page containing one solitary credit - Woman Who Urinates on Herself in legendary TV movie Threads - died in 2015 aged 63. Also dying in 2015, this time at the age of 58, Labj Janjua. A journeyman singer for numerous Bollywood movies, a song he recorded for the 1997 film Legalised - "Mundian To Bach Ke" - was remixed by Panjabi MC and rereleased in 2002, going to #1 across the world (#2 in the UK) and selling over 10 million copies. And yet no mention outside of Indian-language entertainment press at the time of his passing.
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    Films with entirely dead casts

    With this thread I empathise with parents whose son turned out to be a nonce. Having all that hope when it started and those great moments in the early years, and then....
  9. As long promised. So, go on, what do you have? Lifeboat (1944) has 10 castmembers listed on IMDB, all of them have confirmed death dates (the last surviving actor would have been Mary Anderson, who died in 2014) I was going to say "well, obviously, Swimming to Cambodia counts" - one actor, and he killed himself 15 years ago. However, there is archive footage in the film taken from The Killing Fields, and Sam Waterston is still with us and being mildly entertaining in mildly entertaining sitcom Grace and Frankie. The travails of us failing to clarify if everyone from 12 Angry Men is dead can be found here. In short: almost certainly, but we can't prove it. So what can you prove DL?
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    Dying Off The Radar

    Here's an interview with her recorded live on December 22, 2021. The data above is wrong.
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    Dying Off The Radar

    Surely too big a name to die off the radar? This museum had an exhibition of Jane Morgan memorabilia in 2022, with a quote from her about it opening....
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    Deathlist Cup 2024

    Wouldn't be a DL Cup without SC bleeding from the crotch three weeks in.
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    Room 101

    Nutella pizzas. We get it, you've combined two Italian things together that people like. And somehow turned it into the absolute fucking worst of both worlds.
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    Catherine Windsor AKA Kate Middleton

    It's cool (kool?) to spell things with a "K"
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    Royal Family

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    Dying Off The Radar

    I'm pretty sure (location, date and an old Facebook profile all seem to align here) that this Chastity Frye who died aged 41 in 2017 is the same Chastity Frye who, while working as an escort, turned down sex with Seung-Hui Cho and apparently inspired him to commit the Virginia Tech massacre a month later.
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    Time Added

    Orlando Avarena dead at 81. He was the manager of the Chilean national team in the late 80s, when they finished runners-up in the 1987 Copa America and, much more famously, were banned from the 1994 World Cup after goalkeeper Roberto Rojas faked being hit by a Brazilian fan's flare and cut himself open with a hidden razor in an attempt to get a 1990 WC qualification match abandoned.
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    Journalists

    The obligatory post-serious-medial-issue article from John Crace for any form-spotters.
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    Hollywood Possibilities

    Was looking down his IMDB profile at his final roles. One of them.... for some reason in 2022 they decided to remake American Gigolo as a TV series with Gretchen Mol, Wayne Brady and Rosie O'Donnell. Unsurprisingly it was cancelled after one series.
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    The Beatles Death Curse

    Back in hospital according to his wife.
  21. Fade away... Thread opened because DDPs have been won with E Street Band members before, there's enough of them and lord forbid we miss The Boss stepping down. Anyway, let's kick things off with the death of Obie Dziedzic, the woman who was known as "the first Springsteen fan", usually seen front row at most US E Street gigs and at one point Bruce's housekeeper.
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    Dying Off The Radar

    Jeremiah Farrell died on July 4, 2022. A mathematics professor, he created what is often regarded as the "greatest crossword in history", which ran in the New York Times on the day of the 1996 US general election and was able to be solved in two ways: However, no obit for him in the NYT, or seemingly anywhere else outside of this website.
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    Steve Harley

    Oh dear, look what they've done to the blues.
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    Alan Brazil

    I've mentioned him a few times here, but this is a photo from his radio show the other day. Has he now beaten Jim Neidhart to the record of the man with the highest blood pressure in history?
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    The Dead of 2024

    Posting here because he could go in about four different categories: Dick Allix dead at 78. Started off as a musician, playing drums for Vanity Fare including on their cross-Atlantic hit "Hitching A Ride". Then went into sports management, firstly with Eric Bristow. Then was involved in the great darts schism of the early 90s, eventually ending up as one of the PDC top brass and being an agent for most of the current commentators on the arrers.
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