Cat O'Falk
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My aunt was "too ill" to go to my mum's funeral.
She was nine years older than my mum and went on to live a further seven years. I think some older people don't go to funerals because they give them the willies.
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Marriage guidance counsellor Denis Sonet (malheureusement en Français) has died in his late eighties.
Oh, he was a catholic priest too!
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Google news tells me that, according to the National Enquirer, Celine Dion's husband Rene Angelil "Waves Goodbye".
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A kebab shop called Khyber Pass has been caught selling food contaminated with human faeces.
The clue was in the name
Hyson Green Nottingham; who would have thought?
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60% of the classic Bay City Rollers line up have collaborated in search of fan-cash. The two absentees are both still breathing. Derek Longmuir has a conviction for possessing indecent images of youngsters, so the Glitteresue whiff if he'd joined his brother might have been a bit much for the fans (though Derek continues to use words like "framed" and "innocent"). Elsewhere Eric Faulkner is now so right-on he boasts introducing Tony Benn at Glastonbury amongst his more recent live highlights.
60% of the band but 100% of the weight; I remember (just) when I had a 28" waist.
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When you see a fork in the road to heaven, take it.
I thought Yogi died years ago, but it's deja vu all over again.
RIP Yogi.
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He was America's David Coleman
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Do y'all know Berra's got his own thread?
http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2440&hl=
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Roy Dotrice (b.1923) is a year older than Bayldon but maybe not as well known but has been working more recently.
Good actor. "Dickens of London" is recommended, though no longer on YouTube.
I'd mention he was a villain in Murder She Wrote, but that seems to come free with the SAG card.
Also well-respected by SF fans for playing the slimy politician Simmonds in Space: 1999.
Trapped in a perspex coffin because the suspended animation didn't work on him.
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He is also the father of Michelle Dotrice who played Betty in Some mothers do ave em and Karen Dotrice the little girl out of MaryPoppins.
and father-in-law of Edward Woodward
Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs; you learn summat new every day.
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The pope will meet Castro at Sept 20th, IF Castro's health allows it:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/10/pope-francis-cuba-visit-meeting-fidel-castro-health
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Does that leave us with any of Montgomery Clift's lovers still living?
Just spent half an hour looking and every name I found, they are all dead.
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*Peggy Gilbert, a jazz musician lived to 102.
*Ruth Ellis, an early gay rights activist lived to 101.
*Harry Hay, another early gay rights activist lived to 90. His partner John Burnside, the inventor of the teleidoscope, died last year at 91.
*Sir John Gielgud lived to a very reasonable 96, as did Virginia Prince.
*Gian Carlo Menotti was 95.
*Sir Michael Tippett was 93.
*Quentin Crisp was 90.
*Kurt von Ruffin roughed it out for 95 years despite being kept in a concentration camp for sometime. Fellow inmate Karl Gorath lived to a ripe 90.
*Moody bisexual and Hitler's favourite, Marlene Dietrich clocked it up to 90.
*Berenice Abbott was 93.
*Aaron Copland was another composer to see 90.
*Virgil Thomson, a composer of 92.
*Duncan Grant was 93.
*E. M. Forster was 91.
*W. Somerset Maugham, also 91.
*King Gustav V of Sweden was 92.
*Pharaoh Pepi II of Neferkare was roughly about 94.
*Kermit Love, sadly passed away last year but he was 91.
*James Kirkup passed away in May, aged 91.
*Harold Norse passed away in June, aged 92.
*Merce Cunningham passed away in July, aged 90.
I'll stop there for the ones that are already dead because if I start going into names of individuals that lived into their 80s I'll be here all day.
OK, since this thread is growing... may as well concentrate on some possibilities for 2010!
*Hugues Cuenod is still alive. He is 108 next year. His husband (or civil partner to be precise) is 41 years younger than him. F**k me! Although that might be what's keeping him feeling so young!
*British Army commando and journalist Micky Burn will be 98!
*Gay rights activist Axel Axgil is 95 next year!
*Nazi victims Karl Lange and Paul Gerhard Vogel will also turn 95!
*Playwright Arthur Laurents will turn 92.
*Singer Chavela Vargas will turn 91.
*Pierre Cardin, already on the main list, is 88 next year.
*Drag queen/WWII veteran Jose Sarria will be 87 or 88.
*Composer Ned Rorem will be 87, as will Fred Richmond and director Franco Zeffirelli.
*Phyllis Lyon, a very prominent gay rights activist in the U.S. will be 86 next year, as will poet Edward Field.
*The great Gore Vidal, gay rights activist Frank Kameny and singer Johnny Brandon will be 85.
*Ronnie Gilbert, of The Weavers and a collaborator with Pete Seeger, will be 84 next year, as will composers Lee Hoiby and Hanz Werner Henze, minister Otis Charles and Lord Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, known for his "bisexual activities".
*Underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger and poet John Ashbery will be 83.
*Composer Ruth Anderson, actor Jack Larson, legendary filmmaker James Ivory, gay rights activist John Challis, Labour Party politician Maureen Colquhoun, philanthropist Joan Chalmers and playwright Edward Albee will all turn 82 in 2010.
*Cecil Taylor, novelist Dominique Fernandez, sex educator Betty Dodson, Canadian politician Laurier LaPierre and ufologist Ted Bloecher will turn 81.
*Rabbi Lionel Blue will turn 80.
*At a push, Tab Hunter will be 79 next year and Giorgio Armani will be 76, as will Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Rip Taylor. Johnny Mathis and Larry Kramer will be a reasonable 75.
That's all I could find at the moment. I really don't think there are that many, coming out wasn't really a normal thing to do until later in the 80s.. maybe even the 90s and in many places it's seen as taboo and not socially right so I think it's fair to say that a great deal of older celebs out there will be discretely gay or bisexual without us knowing about it. We also have to consider the fact that a lot of them will never come to terms with their sexuality and a lot of people didn't get to become famous BECAUSE of it and therefore didn't get the roles in Hollywood etc. because of it. All these factors produce a shorter list. We shall have to wait a long time for people like Luke Macfarlane, Neil Patrick Harris, T.R. Knight and Duncan James to age I guess (although many of US will be dead!)...
I'll add any other names to the list if anybody can think of any. I personally nominate Paul O'Grady, I know he isn't old but he doesn't keep in good health at all and I think he might have a second heart attack soon. Any other thoughts?
EDITS: Mary Daly died 03/01/2010 aged 81, Earl Wild died 23/01/2010 aged 94, Peter Flinsch died 30/03/2010 aged 89, Edwin Morgan OBE died 18/08/2010
Jack Larson has died aged 87 http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8454&page=69#entry237352
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Cockney Rhyming Slang The most common word for Dead Brown Bread you can also say Dead Father Ted Dead Right Said Fred
Alternatives 'He's Right Said Fred.' Dead (from Brown Bread = Dead) Hovis 'He's Hovis mate, Brown Bread'
Utter horse shit.
Poor rhyme, that.
Agreed BUT Guest decided to lump in modern slang together with cockney rhyming slang which is completely wrong!
Sorry that is agreed, some of that is modern, brown bread is the traditional phrase, but I also like the words they have for parts of the body, like boat for face (boat race)
And Khyber for guest.
James Hunt anyone?
Or Mike Hunt; except I haven't got one. Where's Lardy when you need her?
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Cockney Rhyming Slang The most common word for Dead Brown Bread you can also say Dead Father Ted Dead Right Said Fred
Alternatives 'He's Right Said Fred.' Dead (from Brown Bread = Dead) Hovis 'He's Hovis mate, Brown Bread'
Utter horse shit.
Poor rhyme, that.
Agreed BUT Guest decided to lump in modern slang together with cockney rhyming slang which is completely wrong!
Sorry that is agreed, some of that is modern, brown bread is the traditional phrase, but I also like the words they have for parts of the body, like boat for face (boat race)
And Khyber for guest.
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Why are we getting a multiplicity of double posts all of a sudden?
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Jackie Collins dead at 77.
Why did you have to drop dead beautiful; you're not on the DDP unlike you sister Joan?
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If I had only one eye, thar's no way I'd risk losin' t'other one by havin' a parrot with a sharp beak on me shoulder.
Hang on, what do I mean IF ?
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A Massachusetts man was killed on Interstate 93 when his car collided with a moose late Thursday night, according to state police. Michael Iadonisi, 58, of Ashland, Mass. was driving in the northbound lane when the collision occurred at about 9 p.m.
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He should've killed it first, then put it on the bonnet (hood) and not try to do it in one fell swoop. Where's Starman when you need him?
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And from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Yooper territory:
A 57-year-old motorcyclist was flown to a hospital after deputies say he crashed into a cow in Montcalm County.
The collision happened around 8:25 p.m. Wednesday. According to the Montcalm County Sheriff's Office, Mark Olmstead was on his 2006 Harley Davidson motorcycle when he hit a black cow that was in the road.
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http://upnorthlive.com/news/local/motorcyclist-hospitalized-after-crashing-into-cow
Cue the riots.
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Im sure there are but, ya know, the whole point of starting a topic, even if its shite like this, is to keep the place alive and ticking over etc.
Very nice link but.............
Its for the good folk of DL to come up with ones, right?
OK, how about this one:
Caitlyn Jenner and Suzie Dent.I don't know which one I feel more sorry for.
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when I heard that Jimmy Corbin had been elected leader I jumped with joy !
Nice girl that Joy.
She puts it about a bit too much for my liking.
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/coronation-street-star-bill-tarmeys-6460184:BillTarmey`s wife Alma dies aged 70 following an infection after bowel surgery.
I wonder how much hair YoungWills has now. That's four in about as many days.
Edit; YoungWillz. Sorry.
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William Simons (who played Alf Ventress in Heartbeat) is a non-smoker. He was given herbal cigarettes to smoke on the set.
I remember reading somewhere, nowadays Coronation Street characters portrayed as smokers have to be played by an actor who smokes in real life.