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Can you tell who is who?

Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins is NOT Taylor Swift's father, and also Billy Corgan doesn't exist, according to Billy Corgan: https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/07/billy-corgan-denies-being-taylor-swifts-dad-in-bizarre-instagram-post/

Posting this hospital picture of M. Karunanidhi here, so we can have the ND Tiwari / Karunanidhi face-off:

Nobuhiko Obayashi still making a movie and wants to do so for another 30 years: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201807260008.html

He wants to get out of prison to meet his dying brother: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6003093/Yorkshire-Ripper-begs-jail-bosses-let-dying-brother.html

AP copy / paste - so no reason to worry on that front.

Croatian singer Oliver Dragojevic dead: https://www.total-croatia-news.com/news/30085-croatian-music-legend-oliver-dragojevic-71-has-died DDP pick

New York Times story on hospice patients who "perk up" before the end, usually only hours, but sometimes even months: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/well/the-mystery-of-end-of-life-rallies.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Somehow I missed that Katie Price plans to record an acoustic guitar charity album for her mother: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5924599/Katie-Price-announces-acoustic-guitar-charity-album-honour-terminally-ill-mother-Amy.html Her mother had a heart operation a week ago and supposedly has deteriorated a lot: https://www.ok.co.uk/tv/loose-women/1422691/katie-price-mum-amy-idiopathic-pulmonary-fibrosis-diagnosis-update-heart-operation-loose-women-watch But they also looked for electric bikes and are "upbeat", you never know with her...

Ian Stanley: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/golf/australian-golf-champion-ian-stanley-dies-following-a-long-battle-with-cancer/news-story/a94e810286a145c6839d009c148fa1ac

Kanye West's dad has stomach cancer: https://urbanislandz.com/2018/07/28/kanye-west-dad-diagnosed-stomach-cancer/

Two more Blockbuster stores closed last sunday, one store remains: https://www.newsweek.com/blockbuster-video-store-bend-oregon-now-last-one-existence-1022106 The article also quotes local Alaskan politician Santa Claus.

I wouldn't mind starting now, as I feel my prospective team is actually pretty good. However, it's made easy to look good because I have 9 members of my current main team on it, of whom I still expect great things. But I have three jokers ready as well. And a B-Team line-up with a couple of main team prospects. Prince Philipp has been in there for a week now.

Thomas Keneally interview for those who want to look behind the paywall (or get the free month): https://www.afr.com/brand/sophisticated-traveller/author-tom-keneally-on-his-love-of-cruising-and-the-sea-20180718-h12tp3 Doesn't yet look terminally ill, but his latest book is very heavy on death - from the snippets I can catch.

Man bites dog, a police dog, after stealing a tractor: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/28/world/offbeat-world/colorado-man-steals-tractor-bites-police-dog/#.W1y2Q9IzaUk

Oh, I didn't know he had Marfan's syndrome.

Interesting game. Well, my would-be pick was already taken by Sean.

A bit sad that "we" (as in mankind) have regressed to 115 when it comes to the age barrier. But I also believe that Tanaka is going to be around for a while.

Who knows.. maybe the brain tumour is benign.

Though I wonder if she had been eligible, as she wasn't 18 at the time of picking. That also kept me from picking Malala Yousafzai one year. The snowboarder has received several QOs now.

I've recently tried to start listening to Stockhausen. I haven't advanced very far though, but thanks - I'll keep that in mind.

Karunanidhi's health detereorating: https://www.thequint.com/news/india/karunanidhi-health-updates-declines-fever-kauvery-hospital We've been there before though, a couple of times (and ND Tiwari is still alive, too).

Also, it looks like Charles Lane was the oldest A-List actor ever? Olivia De Havilland is still half a year away. Edit: Though I guess his career wasn't THAT much bigger than Norman Lloyd's.

Did we mention "Arsenic and Old Lace" yet? Wikipedia tells me it counts. IMDB needs too much bandwidth here.

Can't they dig her up again and cut her half in half?