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Kathy Brown is performing again - she'll be doing her first gig since been diagnosed with cancer. Looks pretty good (if it's a recent video). Either way, maybe someone near Bexhill can do some form spotting - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1356717388350352

Edgar Morin hospitalised, but well enough to send a video from the hospital for a public gathering with Pope Francis.

All scenes she has appeared in: Wild Blue Yonder - Housekeeper for Isaac Newton when Mavity was thought up Christmas special - Was a hippie who heckles Ruby’s band at King’s Arms Space Babies - Pre-recorded video as Comms Officer Gina Scalzi, protesting the abandonment of the baby farm. The Devil’s Chord - Tea Lady Boom - Plays an AI ambulance

I was tempted to go with Rover, but we've got our own @RoverAndOut and don't want to cause offence . Fenton also crossed my mind, but too many people don't know the video or mishear it as Benton. So, yes, don't know what happened to Fido really, seems dogs names have the same fashion issue as humans.

Watch the circulated 50ps part of this video especially My Whole Coin Collection!!! 4 Years Of Christopher Collects!!! - YouTube (36:33 onwards). Way, way more than any one person needs. He jokes about "having a problem", but this is seriously in the realms of needing actual help for a hoarding problem.

That guy is one of the biggest twonks on youtube. Exactly what is wrong with "collectors" nowadays. I saw a video once where he was showing off his "collection", proudly boasting "I've got 574 Sherlock Holmes 50ps!", "369 Miss Tiggy-Winkles!" etc. Yeah, good for you. That's not a collection, it's a hoard. A high-standard collection doesn't contain masses of the same coin, especially common ones. He could release 99% of them back in to the wild, giving other people the chance to find them and also giving him funds to buy much nicer coins but no, he would prefer to just sit on a pointless hoard. I shudder to think how many really nice coins he's ruined with fingerprints because apparently he can afford to hoard thousands of pounds of coins but can't spare a tenner for some gloves to handle them. There seems to be some definite interest in coins in this forum (and even a few fairly avid collectors), perhaps people would appreciate a coin thread? Anyone on board?

Chris Cornell died on this day 7 years ago, aged 52. - Cornell's birth surname was Boyle, but he took his mom's name after his parents divorced. - Cornell's first band was a cover band called 'The Shemps', and after they broke up, Cornell and some of its former members would form Soundgarden in 1984. - Soundgarden's 1988 debut album Ultramega OK would earn a Grammy in 1990 for Best Metal Performance. Their most well-known album was 1994's Superunknown, with its biggest single being "Black Hole Sun": This music video received heavy airplay on MTV and won the channel's award for Best Metal/Hard Rock Video in 1994. - Cornell would leave the band in 1997 due to disagreements on creative direction, causing it to disband until they reunited in 2010. He would write a song for The Avengers film soundtrack in 2012: This was not the only major movie Cornell would contribute a song to; he sung the theme to the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale, "You Know My Name". - During Soundgarden's hiatus, Cornell would form the band Audioslave in 2001; he would leave the band in 2007, but it reunited one last time in 2017 at the Anti-Inaugural Ball (a concert protesting Donald Trump's inauguration as president) hosted by the band Prophets of Rage. - Cornell suffered from depression and substance abuse throughout his life, and died from suicide. Some believe this may have been the event that would eventually lead to the suicide of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington two months later; he was close friends with Cornell and performed at his funeral.

https://fb.watch/s3ABr6j_3V/ Here's the video the statement was based off of dated 5 days ago. He could still walk with a stick but looks and sounds like death warmed up.

I cheered. Now that I've seen the whole thing, I'm not surprised. The staging was dirty and sordid, and verging on the pornographic. The song was decent, but he sang it poorly. His voice was weak and out of tune. He thinks he's so sexy He's so preoccupied with showing off and being edgy that there's little effort put into the actual performance of the song. There's some hilarious comments on this youtube video of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0_FdJqyQW0 Even gay men are saying they didn't like it.

Back when I was a lad and YouTube was barely a thing, one video I have fond memories of is the French TGV speed record attempt that took place in 2007. It was a video that fascinated me then and still does today. I decided to watch it again the other day, this time to figure out more about the 3 crew members, other personnel involved and their current whereabouts. Found out in a French article that the lead driver and engineer (center of this photo) is SNCF driver Eric Pieczac, who was born in July 1960 and would be 63 now. Next to Pieczac on the left of the photo is SNCF traction engineer Georges Pinquie (around 70 assuming his age in this article is correct) who has since retired. Pieczac and Pinquie are definitely alive and well, both men attending mainly the "SNCF Patrimoine" (basically French railway heritage) events. The man on the right of the photo wearing glasses is SNCF traction supervisor Claude Maro who I would reckon is in his 70s as well especially as he apparently was there during the 1990 TGV world record attempt, I've found absolutely no information on Maro asides from that. Assuming he's alive as I don't think the French media would miss if one of their TGV record personnel died. Additionally the other two crew members in the 1990 record attempt are Michel Massinon who died in 2015 at the age of 69, and Daniel Vigneau who I haven't found any info on. The at the time Minister of Transport Michel Delebarre was on board the train for that attempt as well, he died in 2022. There was also an Aerospatiale Corvette jet that chased and monitored the train, shot a lot of the video footage actually. Couldn't find who the pilot was. If any French DLer here has more info or can find any more leads, let me know.

Netherland's music video at time I post this is at 25 million views and he was hyped up massively. He had worldwide fans before this drama. If want reliable updates btw, follow this guy:

Jedward were in the audience and there is a video of them walking out at the start of Israel's performance. Anyway my top 5 in no particular order: Croatia Netherlands Finland Ireland Ukraine I'm also digging Armenia.

She's been around far too long to be cool but to be fair she has a helluva voice, can write a great song and never had to resort to prancing around in her undies* in a video to sell records. * Thankfully

I saw this online, thought it was slightly interesting: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Indian politician and one of the drol immortals "comes to life with AI" to give a message to voters: The original video was posted by his party. Will we see more of this in the future, political parties generating statements and messages by severely ill or dead politicians with artificial intelligence?

I knew that Brad Dourif had quasi-retired from acting and was only doing voice stuff from now on (mainly Chucky), but I just saw this recent video of him... he looks absolutely terrible, much older than 74.

Eriksson received another quality tribute and seemingly walked without constant aid as he did at Gothenburg. edit: my apologies if the video is unavailable outside of the states.

Just seen a recent video of John Cleese and he's not looking or sounding very well at all! The same goes for Mark Knopfler and Phil Collins! All three are possible candidates for 2025 maybe?

Daniel Zirilli, who began his directing career helming the video for Domino's 'Getto Jam' and would go on to helm 70 films and 250 music videos, has died. He was 58. https://deadline.com/2024/05/daniel-zirilli-dead-1235902183/

Did you watch the music video too? That's part of the Gorillaz appeal.

The one from 106 is from a facebook post by a care home, and it was matched to Norman Spencer based on the details. I know this because I was the one who found it. There's also supposedly an interview/video on twitter from when he was 107.

Was just wondering if anyone could give a more specific date of death for actress Jennifer Hill (IMDb). Last year it was revealed that she had had an brief fling with Sir David Jason in the 60s that resulted in her becoming pregnant and having a daughter, when this was announced at the end of March articles used the present tense to describe her, signifying she was possibly still alive, however Toby Hadoke included her in his in memoriam video in December, signifying she had died by that point. This makes me assume she died some-point between late March and December 2023, however it is possible that she had died earlier than that and the affair revelations only came out because she was dead. It's a common name but we do have a year (1936) and a location of birth (Port Talbot, Wales), anyone have any ideas.

Alonso was managed by Briatore, he was always going to Renault, and they weren't actually that competitive in 2001/2002 (although they proved to be in 2003 admittedly). The move to McLaren was well-timed, but he ran into Hamilton and we all know what happened next. Couldn't stay at McLaren, so moved back to Renault, but they were on the decline - still managed 2 wins though (the first in very controversial circumstances it turned out). Moved to Ferrari, regular frontrunners, who had nearly won the title in 2008 and were as likely as any to get to grips with the new regulations that Brawn and Red Bull had taken advantage of, but for much of his time there he was outperforming the car. Should have won the title in 2010, got stuck behind Petrov in Abu Dhabi. The fact he came so close in 2012 in a car that was probably 5th fastest on the grid was astonishing. 2 more uncompetitive years, so moved to McLaren - looked like an exciting move - the return of McLaren-Honda! Except the Honda engine took ages to get up to speed and, once it did (with Red Bull), McLaren discovered their aerodynamics were shit too, which is why the car was so slow, whatever Alonso tried to do. Went away and won Le Mans, had half a shot in his first year at the Indy 500 too until his car broke. Came back to Renault/Alpine who rarely gave him a front-running car, just the odd podium (plus helping his teammate win in Hungary by holding Hamilton up). The move to Aston Martin has definitely been a success, but it's not put him in a race winning car (yet), just a competitive car (his team cost him the win in Monaco last year, despite what he says). He's one of the best drivers on the grid and has been for 20 years and he hasn't been in a title-contending car since, arguably, 2010 or a race winning car since 2014. Agreed. He went to McLaren as undisputed Number 1. Lewis was quick enough to refuse to accept that. Ron Dennis thought "Oh no, not again" and dealt with it about as well as he dealt with Prost and Senna. Ok, not dominant but certainly title-contending. For all the competitiveness (and I have a lot of fondness for 2008, it was a great season, although I'd have preferred it if Glock had stayed ahead to the line and Daddy Massa hadn't been told to stop celebrating), Kubica won one race all season, Raikkonen (defending champion) didn't win after the 4th race of the year. It essentially came down to Massa v Hamilton - Lewis got more poles than anybody and won 5 times to Massa's 6 (although Lewis finished ahead of him in Belgium only to be penalised). And he was comfortably winning the title before the rain in Brazil. He was (is?) an excellent driver, but he was fortunate to be in the class of the field throughout that period. He was a better driver than Rosberg throughout their time together and Mercedes were a much more professional outfit than Ferrari in the battles between Hamilton and Vettel (Vettel went off the boil too). Watched the on board multiple times over the years, Hamilton had room on the inside and was never ahead of Verstappen, Verstappen took the line of the corner, Hamilton was never going to get through there (Verstappen on the outside could carry more speed). Coming in from that tight an angle, Hamilton always knew he'd drift out, he was always going to have understeer and that would take him into Verstappen - he clearly decided if contact happened it happened (he was well behind in the championship, so what's he got to lose?). There's a great video from a guy on Youtube dissecting it (he's very fair, did brilliant videos - he's stopped now for some reason - and doesn't entirely support my point of view, but certainly lays out the facts pretty clearly) which is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enVOLoPzfrE Verstappen couldn't care less if there's an asterisk, and I was just glad to see something different after 6 titles in 7 years. We were promised closer racing last year and Red Bull won 21 out of 22 races. Admittedly, take Red Bull out of the equation and it was a thrilling season, and this season is similarly shaping up to be exciting. But it's no good being close if there's one team taking the top 2 spots most races, certainly if they're not even a close match for each other. My favourite four seasons off the top of my head are 2003 (Schumacher v Raikkonen v Montoya), 2008 (Hamilton v Ferrari v Kubica), 2010 (10 leadership changes over the course of the season, Vettel led only once - after the final race) and 2012 (7 winners in the first 7 races and the season continued similarly). All of them you had no idea who would win on any given weekend. For the past decade we've known either a Mercedes was probably going to win or (now) a Red Bull is likely to win. The best races are usually the ones where that doesn't happen. I, too, have loved McLaren since the days of Mika Hakkinen and it's been painful how far they've fallen, but with Norris and Piastri, they've got a great base and Andrea Stella has made a huge difference. Hope the upgrade in Miami can put them a bit closer. As for the future, we'll find out soon enough - still lots to be decided as to who's where first!

From the comments of the first video:

This video is from Lars Von Trier a few months ago. In 2022, he was diagnosed with parkinsons disease. You can clearly see the toll it's taking on his body. Overall, the way he talks about his situation is pretty grim as well.

For completeness I'm going to note that the IMDb page for Miss Jason has 2 different people confused. The drag queen Miss Jason (aka Jason Sutton) did appear in Maisie. The other Miss Jason is this British YouTube star, who appears in the Celeste music video. I watched that music video twice earlier and thought I was going mad when I couldn't find him and that's why. Mel C makes an appearance in that music vid strangely enough. So I'm guessing the YouTube star just pops up in random stuff but isn't a "performer" as such given the sensible Equity rule of not allowing the same name to be used by two individuals.