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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.

Is he going to be the 'new John Smith' in more ways than one?

Yep, it's your all-purpose themaninblack-baiting thread to discuss potential cadavers that popped up in The Sopranos, The West Wing, The Wire, Mad Men, Oz, Deadwood, The Shield, Breaking Bad (if you're a pleb who thinks that's an intelligent show) et al. If Ginny Sack carking it gets a Daily Mail obituary, we can probably assume anyone who had a named role on these shows is DDP eligible. Dominic Chianese paying tribute to James Gandolfini is one of those things that just looks weird, like when you saw the Queen Mum at Princess Di's funeral.

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.

Peter McParland well enough to walk around Villa Park last week, so looks like my hopes of a clean sweep in football aren't great...

Ellen Burstyn and Ellen Barkin are different people?

Great to see who has who on ignore.

Bob Backlund

Just over a year later, we're down to two.

Denis Law with a late winner?

Nobody wants to be responsible for the new William Henry Harrison.

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.

People rag on the centrist left for how quick they were to rehabilitate Dubbya after he started mumbling some vague "Trump is LE BAD" comments, but the soft-right's sudden U-turn on Obama ("that was a president, back in the proper days before we had Kamala Harris") after he was photographed talking with Trump at Carter's funeral is even more embarrassing imho.

Always found it Plowright weird tbh: "She's one of the great elder dames of British acting, one of our most iconic performers" "Oh right, what are her most famous roles?" "The early 90s Dennis the Menace and Burning Down the House with Queen Latifah."

Never knew that guy from The Cleveland Show also made films.

Peter Falk has lung cancer

With the official cancellation of The Wendy Williams Show due to Wendy's "medical issues", I believe this has now entered thread territory.

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.

One of those American names you pick up by osmosis from sitcoms, interviews and rap lyrics. Surely a DDP pick?

Looks like we missed this at the time, but the greatest living photographer, Martin Parr, was diagnosed with myeloma in May 2021. He was described as "in recovery" in 2023, but an interview last year said he was still undergoing treatment for it and that he struggles to stand for more than 10 minutes. Documentary about him hits selected cinemas next month, so form-spotting opportunities abound.

Called his son "Deniro". Got fired from a panto for turning up coked off his tits to a Christmas lights switching-on ceremony and swearing. So many ITV 3 and More 4 appearances. Ended up on the dole. Truly the quintessential mid-00s Z-lister, and I'm sorry to see him go.

Being as the Metro still carries an Indian entertainment gossip column, I suppose any big name player from the world of AZN cinema is in play, so fuck it, let's have a thread for them, especially with "the first Bollywood superstar" Shammi Kapoor currently on his 24th day in hospital for "age-related complications", and his younger brother Shashi Kapoor too weak to collect a lifetime achievement award earlier this year. Maybe also use this thread to reminisce about the very brief period where this board got excited about Lisa Ray before she turned out to be perfectly fine.

He has p(eaches)revious...