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Charles Durning walks in, dances and sings, leaves film, gets an Oscar nomination. It's for sure the only song I ever remember from this (quite underrated) comedy musical. And final one for now - Peter Boyle's Clyde Brockman (a suicidal insurance salesman who can foresee people's deaths) only appears in one episode of the X-Files. He won an Emmy for the role. He died 16 years ago, is far better known for Mel Brooks films. This is still widely considered the best episode of the entire show, and it has no aliens, no conspiracies, just one unlucky man and a serial killer. It's a dark comedy too, so entirely unlike the show's usual MO. And the episode and the actor are both incredible.

Limiting to ones available on YouTube. Ned Beatty was nominated for a supporting actor Oscar for his role in Network, of which 5 of 7 minutes are above. That's a great film, incidentally. If anything, it's more relevant now with what it says about media networks and reality TV and so on. Vincent Schiavelli (sadly missed) is only in 3 minutes of Tomorrow Never Dies, yet he's the villain everyone remembers, as the clock punching perfectionist hitman. (I'm cutting this post into a few as, iirc, posts with more than 2 YouTube videos in them cause issues on phones)

Oh, a film one that comes instantly to mind, actually. The New Orleans assassin from Live and Let Die. ("Who's funeral?" "Yours!") He's in the film for about one minute, he bumps off two of Bond's allies, and he gets away with it entirely. Played by Alvin Alcorn who was an influential local musician from New Orleans at the time. Lasts much longer in the memory than many a film villain with hours of screen time.

That ones a classic. Dennis Hopper, the king of showing up for a film cameo and outshining everyone, outdone at his own game by Dean Stockwell. Sitcoms are classic for this sort of thing. Rik Mayall's Flashheart in Blackadder. I'm a huge favourite of Richard Easton's one scene wonder in Frasier as the classically trained actor Frasier pisses off into quitting his live radio production in Ham Radio. Mel: [German voice:] Ja, I saw zee Gentleman. Frasier: Stop! [to Mel:] That's wonderful, Mel. But he sounds to me just a bit more Austrian than German. Mel: I've done that accent both on Broadway and the London stage! Frasier: Yes, well perhaps they have different standards than I have. Frasier: Mel - I'm still not entirely happy with the second McAllister sister! She doesn't sound spinsterish enough for me. Mel: I see. You also told me that my gamekeeper sounded too cultured, that my Irishman sounded more Protestant than Catholic, and that my dwarf was too tall! Alas, I can't find that online, so here's Denis Lill's 90 seconds as a toff MP in another Blackadder episode! This thread may fill up when there's been more time to think about ones though.

You're keen! I've not decided if I'm taking part next year yet, let alone drafted any lists!

I agree. Lets give him a thread. Werner Herzog. Probably the most famous non-US/UK director living*, 77 next month, and given his walking talking meme status, he's bound to provide lots of entertaining updates before his demise. Like that time he got shot during an interview but carried on. Or the time he went down the Amazon and was nearly killed by his own team. Or the time he was President of the United Sta... sorry, that one was Teddy Roosevelt. *I particularly like Incident at Loch Ness, but the joke in that works best if you've seen some of his other stuff. And if you are about to go "Who?" go and get some culture in you FFS. Today's Werner Herzog news? He's in the new Star Wars film. Of course he is.

My main recollection of Sly Stone in recent years was I'm sure he was told if he didn't stop drinking he wouldn't see seventy... Good singer, though obviously his big hit is the one I'm most familiar with.

Our favourite German nutter (sorry, @gcreptile, 2nd place is good though? ) appeared on US TV 3 days ago. Starting to age but still seems in decent nick for soon to be 80 (in September). Link below for those interested.

Not so much updates as peekaboo deadpooling!

While I agree with the prognosis, I'd just like to counter a popular net myth and point out that post election exit polls had around 90% of Sanders voters voting Clinton, an eben higher number than Clinton voters in 2008 who voted Obama! Those interested enough to vote in a primary held up. Its the less interested in politics types who had voted Democratic in 2012 but didn't in 2016. I know Twitter distorts this. Ginsburg should have retired in 2009ish but tbf I think McConnell's intransigence since took them by surprise, like how the Democratic Senates distrust of Obama knocked the wind out of his sails. I don't see how any of this is reversible now. You'd need new parties and frankly new voters.

Am sure we had the Jake doing better updates in here. Anyhow, back off TV for the foreseeable to recover from "minor surgery". Bladder related so possibly old man problems, but expect someone to claim its further cancer soon.

If someone whose CV includes Eastenders, an Aussie soap, House of Cards, a Terry Gilliam film and Nicholas and Alexandria doesn't pick up some QO before the end of the year, I'd be stunned. He may of course have died prior to 2022. Actors of course are nowhere near as important to society as Love Island contestants...

Apparently Arthur Balfour had resigned as Prime Minister a month before the 1906 landslide, so yes, I'm pretty certain the reigning Prime Minister has never lost their seat in an election. The last former Prime Minister to lose in an election was Asquith in 1918, when he was stitched up by the Tories and Lloyd George.

@RoverAndOut I'll admit to being stunned by the extent of the results. Labour won Wakefield easily on a swing large enough to hunt a majority down. But Tiverton. Bloody hell. No Tory with a liberal challenger is safe. Not Rees-mogg. Not Theresa May. Especially not Dominic Raab. This was proper the public are fed up with a government and want rid by any means stuff. We haven't seen that in well over a decade.

It's quite a crucial moment in Vatican history, and whichever of those outlives the other will shape the church for the next 30 years. As a friendly atheist, I can only say: hurry up and snuff it, Benny.

Younger sister of Tom Sackville, the minor Tory government minister under John Major who lost his seat in the 1997 landslide.

A forgotten but classy name for your long lists. Watched the four part Challenger: The Final Flight documentary from 2020. It skips on the some of the grimmer moments of the disaster, but otherwise a good in depth watch about an avoidable crisis. I hadn't realised Christa McAuliffe had essentially video taped most of her last 6 months alive. Bit grim. As this was recorded in 2020, most of the folk who come out with any credit - Roger Boisjoly, Bob Ebelling, Richard Feynman, Sally Ride and so on - are long gone now. However, still going, and 89 later this year, is General Donald Kutyna, one of the most decorated US air force officers alive. With the help of Sally Ride's internal memos from NASA (she was kept anonymous as whistle-blower until she died), Kutyna and Feynman were able to prove that the O-rings stopped working properly when frozen, which was what the engineers had been trying to tell NASA for years. Donald Kutyna has never been mentioned on this forum and never picked for the DDP. Presumably because, like myself until now, I had assumed, as a close colleague of Feynman, he must have been long dead by now!

He was so young for a tennis player Chinese politician!

Impact have suddenly announced this weeks TV is to pay tribute to Don West and Mike Tenay, their original commentary duo, so maybe keep an eye out for downturns in the formers cancer battle.

No, reptile is away from his computer this week and he updates that bit!

Sky at Night this month focuses on Martin Rees, the astronomer, on his 80th birthday. Lost a fair bit of weight and has aged a bit but still quite chatty and lucid. Derren Nesbitt has shown up in a new channel 5 thing. 87 now, still talkative but he looks like an aging alcoholic. Which tbf he is. Gone within 24 months IMO. Michael Sarne also showed up. Forgot he wasn't dead.

I wouldn't look too much into the Stephanie one, she's frequently not worn her ring in public for at least a decade. She's also a terrible actress so her blatant affection for Triple H since is almost certainly real. Vince and Linda have been separated for years - possibly even before the Playboy interview in the 90s.

The clues in the name, This Site Is a Hoax.

Lester Piggot was on the list twice and the response was almost universally: what a stupid pick, Piggot will see 90 easily. Had he been on this years list, the response on January 1st would have probably been the same. He was in his mid 80s, he seemed in good nick, but then he went downhill suddenly. That's not a miss, that's just sods law. Be like saying Diana Rigg (alas) was a miss in 2020. Sure, she was an A list celebrity. But nobody in December 2019 knew that one of the hardest working octogenarian TV stars in Britain was going to be suddenly diagnosed with cancer in April 2020.