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The new TV show wont be cancelled as they've already signed the Netflix deal on it. The new film suffered from being released in the UK in a heatwave, but even then its already the 17th highest grossing box office of the year in the UK and is likely to be close to the top ten by next update, which doesn't strike me as too bad for a niche genre film. There have been failed Trek films in the past (Star Trek V, Insurrection) and they've still made newer films. Not a fan. I guess these films do well off people going to see them over and over again ala Lord of the Rings.

I think when it comes to the Harts and obits: Bret Hart is a no-brainer. Diana Hart Smith should be due to her status as widow of The British Bulldog (a man who made the BBC news in 2002, lest we forget). TJ Wilson, Nattie Niedhart, Teddy Hart all would if it were a requirement any time soon due to age, the family "curse" and side stories (Wilson surviving the Christopher Reeve neck break, Teddy being properly insane) that would give it good copy. Jim Neidhart, Nattie's dad, should as he was a big name in the Hogan era. Smith and Bruce Hart - Bret's older brothers - are less well known, but still visible enough, one way or another, for journalists to have heard of them. Smith is your typical "promising young athlete turns to hedonism and pisses away their career with demons" story. The rest (Georgia, Ellie, Keith, Wayne, Allison, Ross - Stu and Helen Hart had a LOT of kids) I'd be less assured of, they're less involved in the public eye, and you'd be reliant on a "Bret Hart mourns sibling" type story. With Smith, you have that, plus the references to the untimely deaths of Owen Hart, Dean Hart, Bulldog, and even the kid who died in the 90s (plus they can bring the 9/11 angle with Helen's death), and they get to print stories like the time he no showed a booking in the US to get boozed up instead and as a result Bret subbed in for him and got his first break over there. Or how he tried to promote the son of Chris Benoit as a wrestling star. Or a 100 wayward stories. But then, I'd have assumed a QO for Nick Bockwinkel.

To repeat my comments from last night, he's got "serious health issues", and is currently receiving treatment at the Mayo Clinic. A combination of news which has my inner deadpooler intrigued.

With his family, almost certainly. The Daily Mail, for one, wouldn't pass up a chance to talk up "another Hart family tragedy".

I hope he lives a long life but I also hope that his voice damage is permanent. SC Still battling away, but it appears he takes the Sir Creep attitude to cancer.

Smith Hart had a checkup this week, according to his Facebook, and found that his bone and prostate cancer has now spread into his hips too. An update from Smith Hart on Facebook. I hope he's not booked hotels for Wrestlecon 2018 in advance or anything.

Apparently he was at Atlanta Airport having lost his mobile phone.

If he does make January 1st, I doubt he'd be on the list. The current generation of Deathlist tends to pick big household name actors and actresses for those spots.

"serious health issues", "Mayo clinic", you say?

Sods law it wont be one of the bigger names, so I'm going to guess George Cohen will wind up outlasting the rest. Though I could see Beckenbauer outliving the lot.

A cursory look at Wiki (with a glance over Google news archives for some of the more obscure names) gives us the following survivors of early World Cup finals. 1930-1950 - No one. 1954 West Germany 2-0 Hungary Horst Eckel (b. 1932), Hans Schafer (b. 1927) 1958 Brazil 2-5 Sweden Pele (b. 1940), Mario Zagallo (b. 1931) Sigge Parling (b. 1930), Bengt Gustavsson (b. 1928), Reino Borjesson (b. 1929), Kurt Hamrin (b. 1934), Agne Simonsson (b. 1935) 1962 Brazil 2-4 Czech Republic Amarildo (b. 1940), Mario Zagallo (b. 1931) Jiri Tichy (b. 1933), Josef Jelinek (b. 1941), Adolf Scherer (b. 1938), Josef Kadraba (b. 1933) 1966 England 9-9 West Germany Gordon Banks (b. 1937), George Cohen (b. 1939), Jack Charlton (b. 1935), Ray Wilson (b. 1934), Nobby Stiles (b. 1942), Bobby Charlton (b. 1937), Martin Peters (b. 1943), Geoff Hurst (b. 1941), Roger Hunt (b. 1938) Hans Tilkowski (b. 1935), Horst-Dieter Hottges (b. 1943), Willi Schulz (b. 1938), Wolfgang Weber (b. 1944), Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (b. 1939), Franz Beckenbauer (b. 1945), Wolfgang Overath (b. 1943), Uwe Seeler (b. 1936), Sigfried Held (b. 1942) 1970 Brazil 9-9 Italy Carlos Alberto (b. 1944), Brito (b. 1939), Piazza (b. 1943), Clodoaldo (b. 1949), Gerson (b. 1941), Jairzinho (b. 1944), Tostao (b. 1947), Pele (b. 1940), Rivellino (b. 1946) Enrico Albertosi (b. 1939), Tarcisio Burgnich (b. 1939), Pierluigi Cera (b. 1941), Mario Bertini (b. 1944), Angelo Domenghini (b. 1941), Giancarlo De Sisti (b. 1943), Sandro Mazzola (b. 1942), Gigi Riva (b. 1944), Roberto Boninsegna (b. 1943) Antonio Juliano (sub, b. 1943), Gianni Rivera (sub, b. 1943) 1974 Holland 10-11 West Germany Jan Jongbloed (b. 1940), Wim Suurbier (b. 1945), Wim Rijsbergen (b. 1952), Arie Haan (b. 1948), Ruud Krol (b. 1949), Wim Jansen (b. 1946), Johan Neeskens (b. 1951), Willem van Hanegem (b. 1944), Johnny Rep (b. 1951), Rob Rensenbrink (b. 1947) Sepp Maier (b. 1944), Berti Vogts (b. 1946), Franz Beckenbauer (b. 1945), Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (b. 1948), Paul Breitner (b. 1951), Ranier Bonhof (b. 1952), Uli Hoeness (b. 1952), Wolfgang Overath (b. 1943), Jurgen Grabowski (b. 1944), Gerd Muller (b. 1945), Bernd Holzenbein (b. 1946) Subs – Theo de Jong (b. 1947), Rene van de Kerkhof (b. 1951), 1978 Ubaldo Fillol (b. 1950), Jorge Olguin (b. 1952), Luis Galvan (b. 1948), Daniel Passarella (b. 1953), Alberto Tarantini (b. 1955), Americo Gallego (b. 1955), Osvaldo Ardiles (b. 1952), Mario Kempes (b. 1954), Daniel Bertoni (b. 1955), Oscar Alberto Ortiz (b. 1953), Leopoldo Luque (b. 1949) Jan Jongbloed (b. 1940), Ruud Krol (b. 1949), Wim Jansen (b. 1946), Johan Neeskens (b. 1951), Arie Haan (b. 1948), Rene van de Kerkhof (b. 1951), Johnny Rep (b. 1951), Rob Rensenbrink (b. 1947), Ernie Brandts (b. 1956), Jan Poortvliet (b. 1955), Wily van de Kerkhof (b. 1951) Subs – Omar Larrosa, (b. 1947), Rene Houseman (b. 1953), Wim Suurbier (b. 1945) Every starter in the 1978 World Cup final, to the best of my knowledge, is still alive, although subb Nanninga has died. And he scored the Dutch goal too! But if you had to look to the first World Cup final with no deaths whatsoever, it'd be 1990!

I think there's only 3 Brazilians alive from 1958 - Pele, Zagallo and someone I'm forgetting at 1am. A google suggests Zito and he died last year, so 2 it is.

Well, now I'm going to be super-curious what these changes were going to be! I don't want to say I'm usually a bit shit at this game, but Pan Breed 2016 has more hits than Pan Breed 2015 and Pan Breed 2014 did combined now.

The 1966 World Cup final is 2-2 in terms of fatalities, iirc. (Ball, Moore; Haller, Emmerich). Makes me wonder who will be the sole survivor, eventually. Also makes me wonder how other World Cup finals are doing in that regards. A list might be in the offing.

Give or take a few points.. David Quantick’s Showbiz Pals 145 Heading Nowhere 143 The Living End 141 Thomas Jefferson Survives 137 Golden Slumbers 129 Pan Breed 129 Ever had difficulty breaking into a top five?

He was another who was said to be in remission. Bishop Robinson and Keith Farnham will be quaking in their boots. On a personal superstitious level, I am glad my DDP team didn't hang around at 13 hits too long.

I went to look and see what Tony was up to on his 90th. Planning a second album with Lady Gaga, apparently. Well, didn't see that one coming.

I am glad this game exists as it is fairly close to my Wipeout idea, and therefore I don't need to run it! Pan Breed's team G.I. Generation (1901-1924) 1. Clare Hollingworth 2. william Frankland 3. Herman Wouk 4. Jeremy Hutchinson 5. Joao Havelange 6. Kirk Douglas 7. Beverly Cleary 8. Ronald Atkins 9. Pan Breed favourite Mary Wilson 10. Vera Lynn 11. IM Pei 12. Earl Cameron 13. Diana Athill 14. Rev Billy Graham 15. Lawrence Ferlinghetti 16. Lord Carrington 17. Mary Midgley 18. James Lovelock 19. King Michael of Romania 20. Michael Anderson 21. Lewis Gilbert 22. Liam Cosgrave 23. Clarissa Eden 24. Peter Sallis Silent Generation (1925-42) 1. David Attenboroguh 2. Vera Caslavska 3. Claus von Bulow 4. Valery d'Estang 5. Ian St John 6. Jean Alexander 7. Stanley Baxter 8. Nobby Stiles 9. Gordon Banks 10. Former Pope Benedict XVI 11. Roger Moore 12. Fenella Fielding 13. Freddie Jones 14. Frank O'Farrell 15. William Peter Blatty 16. Bruce Forsyth 17. Peter Sarstedt 18 Glen Campbell 19. Valerie Harper 20. Tony Booth Baby Boomers (1943-1960) 1. Piers Sellers 2. Craig Sager 3. Freddie Starr 4. Radovan Karadzic 5. Sly Stone 6. Colin Baker 7. Joni Mitchell 8. Keith Richards 9. Dave Davies 10. Jimmy Boyle 11. Ozzy Osbourne 12. Roy Chubby Brown 13. Jimmy Hood 14. Tim Curry 15. Peter Sutcliffe 16. Bill Clinton 17. Marianne Faithful 18. Clare Short 19. Loudon Wainwright III 20. Iggy Pop

Maybe both, still a ways to go. He's one of those boring picks who drop off the year they're not on the list, so possibly.

He's said all along his liver should explode late this year (well I did the math lol) so he's right on target. I'm sure I'm quoted somewhere on DL pages saying this early in the year, look for an Oct hit. So long as it's by Dec 31. SC In 2010, he had a year to live. In 2011, he was dying, honestly, but within 2 years. In 2013, he had heart failure and was dying. We're six years on. He'll die one day, we all will, but there's too much of the boy who cried wolf about him. Speaking of wrestlers, Snuka is due back in court for evaluation of his health/competence to stand trial in December. It's as if someone in the legal team plays the DDP.

Ok it's my turn: WHO? "He urged his fans not to worry" when it was discovered that one was kinda worried, whilst the other didn't seem to give a rat's ass. SC I first heard of him about 10 minutes ago, but apparently he had a number one hit in 2013. I feel so old and out of touch. Anyhow, that information guarantees a qualifying obit if he snuffs it.

Apparently he's in three events in Rio. I don't want to come across as mean spirited, but I'd laugh if he fell flat on his arse (or the swimming equivalent) and won nothing.

When a thread like this is randomly updated, its either a death or a birthday.

Want that was Feargal Sharkey? The song does often come into my head reading O'Connor, sadly. Nah, Flannery is a great writer. If you ever feel you are too cheery about the world, give some of her work a read.

Watch out, its exaggerated health issues man Superstar Billy Graham again.