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Glenn Close pulls out of a play because of ill health: http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/glenn-close-pulls-out-of-sunset-boulevard-performance-over-ill-health-a3230876.html

I knew he had a brain tumour in 2015, Death Impends probably knew, too. But I'm not sure how severe it was back then. Nevertheless, I thought he was a lock and almost picked him for the DDP, but decided against it because the obit was too risky.

Heh, my mind is always at work, thinking about stuff. I've also become sort of immune to the news of death. And as I said above in this thread, I expected him to die young. There's a post by me in my history, if anyone is really bored to check, that says that Prince could be the Whitney Houston of 2015, i.e. the unexpected mega star death of the year. Also, nothing will match my shock at Bowie's death, unless it's family.

David Gilmour

A couple of random observations: In contrast to David Bowie's demise, I don't have the feeling that death took a couple of good albums yet unmade albums from us. Actually, we'll be spared a couple of alubm titles with unspeakable acronyms and random, "cool" letter/number combinations. He was a total anachronism, the second-to-last black megastar who made it without hip-hop influence. He stopped to matter when Gangsta rap came up around 1994/95. Is there any other afircan-american artist who plays "real" instruments and writes his own songs? I can only think of the very last one, Lenny Kravitz, also irrelevant now. That said, he had a couple of killer tunes, but also a lot of average stuff. He was not the dancer and magnetic personality that Michael Jackson was, but he had a lot more musical skill.

Definitely, they were trying to out-star and out-crazy each other... They were two different kinds of crazy though.

They say the flu killed him.... suspicious. He'd had the flu for a couple of days, but couldn't shake it off. So he must have had a weak immune system. AIDS sounds like a good explanation. It was never quite clear, but I guess he pretty much shagged everything/body that moved?

Daily Mail, too, by the way. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3552300/Fatality-Prince-s-estate-Minnesota-days-musician-rushed-hospital.html

Yowza! Not surprised, but shocked, if that makes sense.

Caroline Aherne does some voice work for an ad: http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/cancer-survivor-caroline-aherne-fronts-7798519 I actually didn't know that she has or had all kinds of cancer. She will also speak at the Macmillan Cancer Foundation (?) tomorrow.

All my posts on him of the past couple of months should be put in here, in my opinion. Now Sumner Redstone's granddaughter joins the court case that has to rule on his mental and physical abilties: http://deadline.com/2016/04/sumner-redstone-health-care-lawsuit-keryn-redstone-statement-1201740506/ The twist is that she joins the side of Manuela Herzer, Sumner Redstone's previous physician who wants to be reinstated as his caretaker. That means she does not side with Redstone's daughter Shari and the Viacom company. The article explains that Shari wanted Redstone to die at home in 2014, but Sumner "interjected: I don't want to die!" which Shari then ignored and repeated "He wants to die at home. Don't call the doctors." She also tried to push for "no resuscitation orders" which Sumner rejected.

Dave Grohl is like your father playing guitar. He's so... normal.

Why, is he ill? I think it's because he's rumoured to have cheated on Elton. Heh, sorry, I didn't get the irony.

Why, is he ill? I think it's because he's rumoured to have cheated on Elton.

FTFY. I think I've found my name in drag.

Let me see... Che Guevara John Lennon Ronald Reagan John F. Kennedy Yes, Diana Spencer Gwyneth Paltrow Chris Martin Sean Penn Russell Brand Anatoli Karpov Angela Merkel Helmut Kohl Jackson Pollock Thomas Edison Possibly also Yoshiro Nakamatsu Alexander Graham Bell Slavoj Zizek Christopher Nolan Kurt Cobain Even more so Dave Grohl Louis Van Gaal Jürgen Klinsmann Wayne Rooney

French centennarian opera singer Deva Dassy, dead at 104: http://slippedisc.com/2016/04/star-of-the-opera-comique-has-died-aged-104/

Oh, he'll survive two more US presidents.

His death was mentioned in another thread, but I'll use this one to note that his death has gotten Guardian and Mail coverage. Not a DDP pick, but him and Andrew Smith both getting QOs could be a useful reference point the next time a risky-obit basketballer falls ill. Ha! I just made the same point in Shaun's Deadpool thread.

I get points for Dwayne "Pearl" Washington: http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/20/dwayne-pearl-washington-syracuse-dies-52-cancer The obit came easily. But I was too unsure to choose him for the DDP. Another mistake. The Guardian has developed a preference for US basketball, see also: Andrew Smith.

Helmut Kohl received a visit by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban today: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/helmut-kohl-und-viktor-orban-meiden-harte-kritik-an-angela-merkel-a-1088037.html(german link) He looks a bit better than before, but is still wheelchair-bound.

Twitter tells me that Jordan Lotter already died on April 4th, so most likely one for the List of the Lost. Note to self: While the Daily Mail covers people who are getting "killed" by the NHS, they do not cover people who go on to receive private health-care instead, but still die.

Interesting, though I also put rapper OG Maco on my Shaun's Deadpool team because the site said he had AIDS. But then, Prince being a Jehova's Witness also makes me believe that he could suffer an early death.

Yes, I didn't find it, if it exists. But there IS a Carl Reiner thread.

Obscene, radical conservative US pundit Erick Erickson had pulmonary embolism and "should be dead", but isn't: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/erick-erickson-health-scare