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Another death by selfie (selfie with a gun) makes world news: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-accidentally-kills-himself-while-taking-selfie-with-a-gun-a6909406.html

Helmut Kohl sues his former biographer for the (german) record sum of 5 million Euros: http://www.welt.de/regionales/nrw/article152896124/Der-Geist-den-Helmut-Kohl-nicht-mehr-los-wird.html(german link) The biographer (Heribert Schwan), however believes that it's the work of Kohl's second wife.

Kid Frost has diabetes that has led to cancer (?): http://thesource.com/2016/03/02/kid-frost-announces-he-has-been-diagnosed-with-cancer/

Thanat Khoman, co-founder of ASEAN and foreign minister of a country the obituary doesn't tell, has died at 101: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Asean-founder-Thanat-passes-away-30280737.html

After Crowe and Feek, Shameless should not get into the lead again. It was a bit of a freak occurence anyway. And my main team should finally overtake Shameless as well... It should become obvious now why I declared Captain Chorizo the favourite on the previous page (or the one before that?). Jade Pateman was huge for him.

RIP, Mr. Crowe... I guess there's quite an avalanche coming up, with Feek not far behind... My DDP theme team was only able to get into the lead again because Feek and Crowe lasted far longer than most people anticipated.

You know........ I did a TON of research for team Gris Gris (DDP theme) and let's just say it's damn near impossible to discover all these nobodies. I rest assured I entered 'John/Jon/Johnny Johnson/Johns/John' probably a dozen times and NEVER did this 98-year old asshole pop up. As the GM of team Gris Gris, I say on behalf of the team, Fuck him! SC Yeah, I wondered if you picked him and checked it myself. However, I guess he will not obit anyway.

On an entirely unrelated note, did anyone else catch her interview on BBC Radio about death and dying about a month ago? In it, she said she had a scan to see how bad the cancer had gotten "early next month" (ie about now). I assume the decision is whether to try another chemo cycle or give up...

Damnit, all my instincts were telling me he is going to die this year. But I didn't pick him.

On a related note, and because Spotlight just won the Best Picture Oscar, I was very close to picking Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston in the DDP. At one point he was said to be in very bad health, around mid-2015, ah, like here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/09/29/cardinal-sean-malley-compares-pope-francis-visit-national-religious-retreat/LOdOMhDfjRclQDNby3jFnJ/story.html But then it sort of turned out that Cardinal Law was doing ok, and was "banished" to Vatican City where he lives like a king in exile or something like that.

So "John Travolta's twinks" fails to get a full 10 out of 10 because of the awesome resilience of Lupita Tovar.

Interesting (?) how George Kennedy, Frank Kelly and Louise Plowright avoided February 29th... Wasn't Plowright getting treatment in Singapore? Thumbs up from me for the Scandinavian Theme Team "Ikea Nokia Lego" that I just discovered Also, someone already picked Athol Fugard... I wanted to get a unique hit with him in the future.

Longtime New York Giants trainer John Johnson dead at 98: http://www.nj.com/giants/index.ssf/2016/03/former_longtime_giants_trainer_john_johnson_passes.html

Bret Hart has beaten cancer: http://www.wrestlingnewssource.com/news/41796/Jim-Ross-Reveals-Bret-Hart-Has-Beaten-Cancer/

An update on shameless DDP pick Jordan Lotter. Actually interesting because of what it says about medical progress. Obit-wise, the "the NHS condemned me to die" story is a guarantee, of course. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3470099/Magic-bullet-treatment-giving-hope-cancer-patients-like-Jordan-British-doctors-trial-promising-alternative-chemotherapy.html

I defend her a bit, because she has a couple of good songs. This one is probably good by general standards: But some of the crazy ones are also good, mainly because she always had such a killer backing band, like on this one:

5th of March

Congratulations DDT, wherever you are. I wasn't brave enough to put her in my main team, because of obitability. But now she becomes the third hit of my B-Team, which is about to catch up to The Love Boat, especially since Mother Angelica can't be far behind, as I'm saying for the third time now.

Hmm, Twitter has it. But the rumour started some hours ago. So maybe a fake.

For some reason I always confused George Kennedy and George Gaynes. Will probably continue to do so. I also always confused Gary Oldman and Alan Rickman. But now one of them is the dead one and the other one is still alive.

French Utopian architect Claude Parent dead at 93: http://www.archdaily.com/782913/french-utopian-architect-claude-parent-dies-aged-93 Famous for.. uuh.. this

Willie Thorne still bankrupt, still battling prostate cancer, sort of asks for three million pounds: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/cancer-stricken-willie-thorne-recovering-7456686 He'll have a second biopsy soon.

Uuuhhh.. fascinating! I mean, her death is actually mentioned in written form if you click on "show more". Sneaky, sneaky!

Buzz Aldrin still active and looking good: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3468140/Buzz-Aldrin-Getting-Mars-easy-part.html There's going to be a BBC interview with him.

Oh, no Yoko. Ok, brace yourselves... Joining Lennon