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Obviously a huge name in the US, but let's not forget the link only me and @drol remember - yes, one of the dwindling cast of Silence of the Hams, the greatest terrible spoof movie of all time.

Yeah when you were a wean (christ I feel old) he was basically on public deathwatch and seen as an OD when, not if, and a cautionary Hollywood tale of a washed up talent. He's done fantastic to get himself clean and become a bigger star these days than he was in the 90s. As for the pics, imo, he's aging like Ozzy. Not near death, but those earlier years of vice will catch up on you as you get older.

Got high hopes on it being the Grim Reaper tbh.

The man from Del Monte going to struggle to say Yes to this! I dropped him from all my teams, I think. But where I stumble, @Gooseberry Crumble scores with a DDP unique!

And isn't well, so maybe one for folks lists for next year.

I know they wont, but 3 candidates is enough for a party fight as history shows. We have around 10 announced already, not including some likely big hitters. I expect at least 8 names in the first round ballot, and a lot of inter-Tory fighting.

350 odd MPs divided by 20 could still be up to 15 or so candidates passing that threshold. It's going to be messy - too many people this is likely their last shot at being PM.

If you'd seen the last pics of Mongo its a 50-50 race now.

Finished in the Steve Mongo McMichael sense, not in the. Deborah James sense.

In person on Newsnight. IMO he's started to age significantly. Clearly an elderly man now when he was a lot more spritely a few years ago.

Think its possible Sunak just gets bored of politics and fucks off at the next election tbh. Zahawi's odds to replace Johnson by default probably just got slashed considerably. I agree, but with a crucial caveat - as it stands!

Not usually much good at this game. If only Taylor had got an obit anywhere, he was only chair of an entire county council, BBC!

Steiner I didn't know of (relatively new) - but was clearly a writer on the up. (Though Wiki is notoriously stringently edited when news writers pages are added, prone to delete them, my takeaway from that is that Wiki Editors are mostly cunts.) Trintignant I knew of as my mum was a fan. More popular with an older generation, I think. He was the most DLy name of the lot but so it goes. re George Perez - Msc Jr knows all about him - because McDonalds ran a Happy Meal toy campaign around Perez's creations a few months ago! Given they only do those for the massive merch sellers, I can only assume Perez is significantly more famous than folk like me thought! Not the sort of name the Cmme go for though*. *Unless they're in a "we did shit last year, chuck anyone on the forum with Stage IV cancer on the list" mood like 2009 and 2017 of course!

News just gets worse and worse for Boris Johnson: Dominic Raab has announced he isn't resigning.

And nothing of value was lost! (Yeah I know, it "pressurises" Boris Johnson. My point stands!)

SUSIE'S HOMECOMING 10/50 2nd July 2022 Popular crime novelist Susie Steiner has died after a long battle with brain cancer. Steiner started as a busy journalist with The Times and worked as the lifestyles editor for The Guardian for a number of years, during which time a decade ago she rather eerily wrote an article about the top five regrets of the dead. She left The Guardian to raise her kids, and write novels, and this turned out a smart choice. Her second DC Mannon novel, Missing Presumed, was picked for the Richard and Judy book club, and was one of the best selling crime novels on the planet in 2016. She wrote 4 well selling books before cancer blinded her. Steiner was making her Crowdsourced debut, and was the 10th hit of the year.

THE GREAT SILENCE FOR TRINTIGNANT 9/50 17th June 2022. One of the most popular French actors of the 20th Century, Jean-Louis Trintignant has died after a prolonged tussle with cancer, aged 91. A highly regarded dramatist, Trintignant worked with all the greats of European cinema from Truffaut to Bertolucci. Taking to the stage early in life, he made his break through with roles in films such as And God Created Woman and The Conformist. But it was his role in Costa Gravas's Z which made him an international name, with the film even making the equivalent of over $150 in today's money at the US cinemas. That's for a subtitled film. In the 1960s. In America. In Z, Trintignant played an unnamed magistrate who rallied against a cover up by the despotic Greek government of the time. With that government long dead, we all know now (as it was blatantly obvious at the time) that this character was quite closely based on Christos Sartzetakis, the future Greek leader who died a few months ago. Trintignant won the Best Actor award at the prestigious Cannes film festival for this role. Jean-Louis continued to star in European cinema, with a role in, for example, the Three Colours films (Red) and in 2012, Amour, which was Oscar nominated. However, by then, he had sadly suffered what he called the key moment of his life - the murder of his favourite child, Marie, by her abusive partner. Trintignant had got Marie into acting, he blamed himself (unjustly) for her fate, and he never recovered from this bitterest of tragedies. In 2018, Jean-Louis Trintignant announced he had prostate cancer and was not seeking treatment. He said he wished he'd died 15 years earlier. As the years since have shown, it takes a long time to die from even untreated prostate cancer. On the announcement of Jean-Louis Trintignant's death, you didn't need to be bilingual to read the vast number of tweets coming through from French Twitter, all to a tweet pictures of a smiling Jean-Louis with his daughter, and the words "reunited at last." In the words of an old teacher, it'd bring a tear to a glass eye. Jean-Louis Trintignant was one of the all time great actors. He also lived through a personal Hell on Earth for two decades. Now that he is the 9th hit for The Crowdsourced List in 2022, we can only hope he is at peace.

Depends how much space is left in the kitchen!

OUT George Perez Susie Steiner IN John Cannan Mike Davis Though it's hard to keep track of who is in and out the team when there's no updates tbh.

The Bottle Factory Outing is the one people note is the best intro to Beryl's work, though I heartily recommend the grim family outing in Another Part of the Wood. Doomed through the inability to actually speak to each other. It's marked lowly on Goodreads, probably because, like Abigail's Party (a similar play), those people hit too close to comfort.

@Gooseberry Crumble Big fan of Beryl Bainbridge's writing, a good mix of social commentary and very dark humour. Also worth a watch is the BBC documentary Beryl's Last Year, in which Bainbridge depresses her family with plans for her imminent death as she is convinced she will die at the age of 71 like her parents and grandparents before her. I wont say spoil if she was accurate in her belief, only to note this documentary came out in 2007....

Always makes me think of Rik. Perhaps not his finest bit of satire but it cracked me up as a kid. And now!

Not a death. Marty Wilde showed up on Talking Pictures this week. He's 83 now and he looks great for his age!

1. Khaleda zia 2. Antonio russo 3. Chris croucher 4. Shannen Doherty 5. Jake Roberts OUT 1. Andy Goram 2. John Cannan 3. Eric Lamaze 4. Oliver Sherwood 5. Garfield Sobers IN Half-assed changes.

I believe I'm mathematically eliminated before the second half of the year even so need not concern myself with hypothetical scenarios this year!