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I was about to.... However, I do think that this year's list, and I think I said that at the start already, was okay-ish. Lots of people on the list are okay-ish. Not a lot of terminally ill people, but also not easy to drop. If I had to choose, I'd probably drop Dick Van Dyke, Harry Belafonte and David Attenborough instead - even though they are totally A-List. Sandy Gall wrote a book this year.

Ahem... almost time for a Christopher Lloyd vs. Michael J Fox poll.

Quick update.... Yes, I had to add Maury Wills for Cpt. Hemlock. Another left-field hit for him...it took some time, but now, they are finally falling one by one. Plus, I also had to correct an obscure error that happened because I had so many Frank Williams' in my excel file... Grand Uncle Bulgaria profits, for one. In terms of new hits, we had Phil Read for MariNisia and me. Indeed, my posts are always worth reading But there is also Bruno Latour, for drol, msc and DevonDeathTrip.. Plus, there is mother of country Loretta Lynn, hit for quite a few people. And finally, Peter Tobin also goes into the bin here. Many players rejoice. The Top two are unbothered by all the hits, but the followers are making up some ground. Rank Team Score 1 Salmon Mousse 1263 2 Banana 1223 3 An Fear Beag 1163 4 msc 1129 5 gcreptile 1085 6 Book 1053 7 Predictor 1041 8 Joey Russ 988 9 Cpt. Chorizo 931 10 drol 912 11 Death Impends 881 12 DevonDeathTrip 861 13 MariNisia 774 14 Kenny 716 15 Guy From Future 689 16 JohnKey 639 17 Toast 614 18 Annami 613 19 Great Uncle Bulgaria 612 20 Sean 592 21 Theoldlady 558 22 Torva Messor 524 23 The Daredevil 482 24 The Unknown Man 481 25 JoeMoneypenny 474 26 The old crem 467 27 Buffalo Phil 463 28 Wormfarmer 455 29 CalebH 448 30 Baby Blue 442 31 YorkshireBanker 395 32 Liz Lemon 368 33 Pedro67 312 34 markb4 307 35 YoungWillz 278 36 Bibliogryphon 254 37 Hell 205 38 chilean way 203 39 Famous6Eva 181 40 Doulton 178 41 Captain Hemlock 176 42 keltos31 147 43 The Spinosaurus 127 44 Gooseberry Crumble 120

The USA's most favourite German in the 60s and 70s, actress Elke Sommer, sold her Hollywood mansion in March: https://www.dirt.com/gallery/entertainers/actors/elke-sommer-house-holmby-hills-1203462922/ Back in Bavaria, she almost had her legs amputated because their blood circulation was pretty much completely gone: https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/elke-sommer-ihr-drohte-die-bein-amputation-80679498.bild.html (The Bild article also has a picture of Franz Beckenbauer who kind of looks worse than she does, even though he's five years younger. In fact, I think he's looking slightly sick of cancer.)

Barbara's caretakers keep her from watching the news because she thinks she should be covering them and gets enraged. She has "few lucid moments" now, is seemingly in her appartment all the times: https://okmagazine.com/p/barbara-walters-caretakers-stop-her-from-watching-news-broadcasts-prevent-outbursts/

I'm going through my longlist, so you probably get a lot of minor updates on old names now... anyway.... here's a 2021 interview with Liberace's driver, Scott Thorson: https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-prison-interview-with-scott-thorson-wonderland-murders-witness-and-liberaces-pet He says he was released from prison "15 months ago", which would have been March 2020. Since then however, his "health started failing" because he had been shot in prison and had colon cancer. The treatment killed the nerve endings in his leg and he has chronic pain now... So, he was released in 2020 and got into a car accident. He consequently missed a court date and couldn't do his rehab program, yadda yadda yadda... he's back in prison.

Most recent thing I could find: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/harry-potter-star-feeds-lemurs-at-kent-zoo-266787/ He feeds animals at the zoo. The photo shows him being old, a little haggard, but still age appropriate, in my opinion. If he has dementia, it's pretty early. Edit: So yeah, this is not the same article Ulitzer already posted. It's just that he was once in the Zoo in march, and then again, in May. Maybe he had forgotten he was in the zoo just two months before?

Now he has a biography out - says it's unlikely he sees his 80th birthday, which is still 8 years away though: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/oct/05/the-more-dangerous-the-operation-the-more-i-wanted-to-do-it-neurosurgeon-henry-marsh-on-mistakes-and-mortality

If we assume that Julia Reichert / Nigel Starmer-Smith cancel each other out, so to say... then yes, just as you predicted, George Alagiah might be the crucial pick. You both have Phelan and Frank Field. Though you do have Don West, too.

Curiously, Jack Thomas would have received a DDP QO because of an australian radio host eulogizing him: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11285153/Sydney-radio-host-2GBs-Ben-Fordham-breaks-Boston-Globes-Jack-Thomass-death.html

Well, in very recent news, he's been granted a hearing for parole next year, it's going to be his 11th attempt: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20001409/notorious-paedophile-sidney-cooke-freedom/

Keeping track of it: 1. Steve Mongo McMichael 2. Nigel Starmer-Smith 3. Joe Doering 4. Julia Reichert 5. Gianluca Vialli 7. Carolyn Bryant Donham (Emmett Till accuser) 8. Mutulu Shakur 9. Michael Tilson Thomas 10. Simon Cowell (SOS Wildlife presenter) 11. John Cannan 12. Ted Kaczynski 13. Don West 14. Alan Greenspan 15. Jango Edwards 16. Johnny Ruffo 17. Chris Stone 18. Rolf Harris 19. Ray Reardon 20. Frank Field 21. George Alagiah Subs 1. Abigail Kawananakoa 2. Jonnie Irwin 3. Roberta Flack

Well alright then, Peter Tobin dead. New 3rd sub: Rolf Harris

Ah, so the cancer/hospice rumours were in fact untrue. He had a hip operation.

Benjamin himself was just hospitalised for chest pains: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/05/benjamin-netanyahu-hospitalised-with-chest-pains-during-yom-kippur

More cancelled concerts: https://pitchfork.com/news/low-cancel-more-shows-as-mimi-parker-continues-cancer-treatment/

Wrong thread...

Minor drag queen Jojo Baby has cancer EVERYWHERE: https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/10/05/wicker-park-artist-drag-legend-jojo-baby-raising-money-for-expenses-after-recent-cancer-diagnosis/ Not very famous and most likely not obitable for anything.

Tony Brown, that NBA referee with pancreatic cancer, he's in "hospice", though actually, hospital: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/clark-atlanta-community-uplifts-former-nba-referee-battling-cancer/YPQZACEP7NGXNLJ2FEZOFMQ64M/

Lindsey Buckingham cancels more concerts, probably still heart related: https://people.com/music/lindsey-buckingham-cancels-european-tour-dates-amid-ongoing-health-issues/ I think the big 5 might just drop like dominoes eventually.

British superbike racer Chrissy Rouse, has also died today, at age 26. He had an accident on the 2nd: https://www.visordown.com/news/racing/bsb/chrissy-rouse-national-champion-and-bsb-racer-has-died

Unique again for me, and if you dont want him, I take him!

Interesting, thanks, I missed that. Makes me wonder what it could be. Dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's. None would allow conducting, but I'd assume you'd have seen signs by now if it was one of these things. Maybe he had a mini-stroke, an aneurysm, or something like that? He doesn't want to cancel everything, but the message also sounds like a good bye.

And, do my eyes deceive me? She's a solo hit for you.

German news saying that the early presentation of the "real" budget will not happen after all.... these people need to be put out of their misery. Okay, Kwasi Kwarteng will be out in a few days (or hours?). Liz Truss will go shortly afterwards. What then? Can the Tories just put Rishi Sunak on the top? I mean, it does sound like the "best" solution for them. I assume that BoJo is just waiting in the background to return, but Truss' implosion came too fast. So he has to let somebody else pass for now. So I suspect that Rishi Sunak will experience a lot of inner sabotage, just so that he loses the next general election - which he will probably do, anyway. But yeah, you've got to be sure.