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Heh, missed it. Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra

Sometimes you need the rain to remind you of how beautiful sunshine can be.

A brazilian player for the national team named Fred has died at 73: https://placar.abril.com.br/placar/morre-fred-ex-zagueiro-de-flamengo-e-irmao-de-paulo-cezar-caju/ But it's not the ManU Fred nor the defensive player who will always live in shame for his performance at the 1-7 loss to Germany.

Erm, six months is extremely optimistic in that case.

Everything Everywhere All at Once An incredible onslaught on senses and mind. The sheer intensity of everything gets a little watered down because the movie is 20 minutes too long, but until then, two thumbs up.

George Shapiro, manager of Jerry Seinfeld and Andy Kaufman, also a prominent talent scout and producer, dead at 91: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10864427/George-Shapiro-talent-manager-repped-stars-Jerry-Seinfeld-Andy-Kaufman-died.html

Ah very sad... kind of the stable constant in that band. And while the status of Depeche Mode was already mostly comatose, I guess now the band is definitely dead.

Health update on Alan White, currently dead: https://www.rock-progresivo.com/fallece-alan-white-bateria-de-yes-desde-hace-mas-de-4-decadas/2022/05/amp/ I should note that I pasted a spanish link here because the only english link is down. So there's some fake news potential here, but then he announced just days ago that he would miss the next tour for health reasons.

My pick Jack Kaiser has died: https://nypost.com/2022/05/25/jack-kaiser-former-st-johns-ad-and-baseball-coach-dead-at-95/amp/ I saw a tweet he was in palliative care at some point last month. And then I couldn't find it again no matter how hard I tried. But it was true after all it seems.

Petition underway to ban Katie Price from owning dogs: https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/petition-ban-katie-price-owning-7128861 Who feeds them when she's in prison? Edit: It's really sad how many pets have died in her care. The article mentions most of them.

Political comedian and satirist Hans Scheibner has died at 85 after a short and heavy illness: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/hans-scheibner-im-alter-von-85-jahren-gestorben-a-393190fe-a8db-450c-831e-d24a47a15a96

Not a single post in here while the Davos meeting is taking place? I'm very disappointed in our resident conspiracy theorists. Shut this thread down!

Lil Pump's cousin, a "rapper" named "OhTrapstar", "gone too soon" in a car crash at 23: https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/5422980/ohtrapstar-dead-lil-pump-cousin-car-crash/ The police say "it appears speed was a factor in the accident" - gone in 60 seconds? OhTrapstar himself was the cousin of another rapper - Lil Ominous. - fascinating.

Taken from Wikipedia, Spanish photographer Ouka Leele (Ukulele?) dead at 60: https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/fotografia/2022/05/24/628d3d88fc6c83ec7a8b4578.html Edit: Oh well, there's even a Guardian QO: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/may/25/spanish-photographer-ouka-leele-star-of-the-movida-madrilena-dies-aged-64

Lee Lawson, described as a Broadway legend in one article, and as a TV actress on Guiding Light in the probably less informed Daily Mail article, has died of both COVID and cancer at 80: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10854617/Lee-Lawson-played-Bea-Reardon-Guiding-Light-nearly-10-years-passes-away-age-80.html https://www.thetealmango.com/news/broadway-legend-lee-lawson-dies-at-80-fought-both-cancer-and-covid-19-like-a-champ/

John Zderko, US actor in with parts in seemingly every recent US crime show, dead at 60: https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2022/05/26/e-morto-lex-premier-ciriaco-de-mita_9d3302b6-28ba-4769-b8ee-e61c6e62bc1c.html

Ciriaco De Mita now dead at a mere 94: https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2022/05/26/e-morto-lex-premier-ciriaco-de-mita_9d3302b6-28ba-4769-b8ee-e61c6e62bc1c.html

I think it's definitely possible. I also think it's possible that one or two of my picks still score. I think we really have to wait until the last day.

Ella Scarborough has died: https://www.wfae.org/charlotte-area/2022-05-24/ella-scarborough-mecklenburg-county-commissioner-has-died-at-75

Richard Sung Hong "Dickie" Wong...quite a mouthful, former state senate president of Hawaii and a "powerbroker" dead at 88: https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/05/24/hawaii-news/richard-sung-hong-dickie-wong-1933-2022-longtime-power-broker-in-legislature-was-a-target-of-broken-trust/

Ukranian champion boxer Oleg Prudky, a semi-pro boxer, dies on the frontline: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/ukrainian-champion-boxer-dies-fighting-27049760

Very perceptive, Ukranian champion boxer Oleg Prudky dies on the frontline: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/ukrainian-champion-boxer-dies-fighting-27049760

Las Vegas killer on death row Timmy "TJ" Weber dies at 48 in mysterious circumstances: https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/notorious-las-vegas-killer-timmy-tj-weber-has-died-2580985/

She was recently preparing for her "final" chemo treatment and hoped that the cancer would be gone: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/janey-godley-shares-positive-cancer-26986031 Maybe it wasn't a complete success?

Kim Jong-Un himself carries the coffin, and notably does not wear a mask: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/23/kim-jong-un-buries-mentor-amid-north-korea-covid-crisis