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On 15/11/2022 at 02:08, Philip said:

Here's my entry. I think half could go easily next year.

1. Rolf Harris

2.       Thomas Noguchi

3.       Princess Astrid

4.       Queen Ratna of Nepal

5.       Katherine, Duchess of Kent

6.       Jimmy Carter

7.       Rupert Murdoch

8.       Chuck Grassley

9.       Robert Wagner

10.   Lord Rodney Elton

11.   Glynis Johns

12.   Luis Garavito

13.   Pele

14.   George Alagiah

15.   Rosalynn Carter

16.   Vera Miles

17.   Yoko Ono

18.   Frank Field

19.   James Watson

20.   James Whale

21.   Henry Kissinger

22.   Pope Benedict Xvi

23.   Doddie Weir

24.   Barbara Walters

25.   Julie Goodyear

26.   Jiang Zemin

27.   Bob Barker

28.   Ethel Kennedy

29.   Queen Margrethe of Denmark

30.   Constantine ii of Greece

31.   Shannen Doherty

32.   Mohammed  Al Fayed

33.   Vic Seixas

34.   Shane Macgowan

35.   Claude Jarman Jr.

36.   Tim Curry

37.   Ted Kaczynski

38.   Johnny Ruffo

39.   Imelda Marcos

40.   Patricia Routledge

41.   Jean-Marie Le Pen

42.   Princess Michael of Kent

43.   Dennis Skinner

44.   June Spencer

45.   Andy Taylor

46.   Jake the snake Roberts

47.   Mahathir Mohamed

48.   Rose West

49.   Linda Nolan

50.   Wilbur Ross

Rob Burrow gianluca vialli and Dianne Feinstein as replacements for Jiang Zemin Doddie Weir and Pele

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The Pele subs are all in.

 

We're at 35 entries added to the TCD23, with 10 more still to be added as it stands. The record was 38!

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Benedict was 2nd when he died. Barbara Walters was 15th. 

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@msc Here’s my entry in case you didn’t see it in the 2023 Shadowlist Competition thread.

 

  1. Rolf Harris 
  2. James Whale
  3. Gianluca Vialli
  4. Joanne Woodward 
  5. Nigel Starmer-Smith
  6. Milan Kundera
  7. George Alagiah
  8. Harry Belafonte 
  9. Glynis Johns
  10. Roberta Flack
  11. Giorgio Napolitano 
  12. Joss Ackland
  13. Ted Kaczynski 
  14. Andy Taylor
  15. Jimmy Carter
  16. Tony Bennett
  17. Frank Field (UK politician)
  18. Sandy Gall
  19. June Spencer
  20. Stuart Hall
  21. Bob Barker 
  22. James Watson
  23. Henry Kissinger 
  24. Françoise Hardy
  25. Jacques Delors
  26. Sandra Day O’Connor 
  27. Douglas Hurd
  28. Ethel Kennedy
  29. Vera Miles
  30. Robert Wagner
  31. Sonny Rollins
  32. Yoko Ono
  33. Bernadette Chirac
  34. Michael Caine
  35. Chaim Topol
  36. Cleo Laine 
  37. Bobby Charlton 
  38. Alberto Fujimori 
  39. Dennis Skinner
  40. King Constantine II
  41. Linda Nolan
  42. Roy Clarke
  43. General Pervez Musharraf 
  44. Jean-Marie Le Pen
  45. Eva Marie Saint 
  46. James Earl Jones
  47. Don King
  48. Norman Tebbit 
  49. Joan Plowright 
  50. Stanley Baxter

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Just now, The Daredevil said:

@msc Here’s my entry in case you didn’t see it in the 2023 Shadowlist Competition thread.

 

 

Yep got another 14 lists to add. 

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THE TRANSFER WINDOW HAS SLAMMED SHUT.

 


Err, I mean, nominations period for TCD23.

 

The list will be out later on. With 57 folk getting involved, we've smashed the all time record.

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Shadow List 2023: (Crowdsourced also please)

 

 

 

1)Gianluca Vialli 2)James Whale 3) Jimmy Carter 4) Rolf Harris 5) June Spencer 6) Ryuichi Sakamoto 7) Henry Kissinger 8) Bob Barker 9) Nigel Starmer-Smith 10) Frank Field 11)Sonny Rollins 12) Joanne Woodward 13) Rob Burrow 14) Dick Van Dyke 15) Norman Lear 16)Bobby Charlton 17) Jacques Delors 18)Tony Bennett 19) Ted Turner 20)Eva Marie Saint 21)Glynis Johns 22)Charlie Munger 23) Carolyn Bryant Donham 24) Roberta Flack 25) Betty Boothroyd 26) Doreen Mantle 27)Patricia Routledge 28) Noam Chomsky 29)Jean Marie Le Pen 30) Dennis Skinner 31) Vanessa Redgrave 32)Stanley Baxter 33) Andy Taylor 34) Linda Nolan 35) Shannen Doherty 36)Rhod Gilbert 37) George Alagiah 38) Randy Jackson (American Idol) 39) Douglas Hurd 40)David Attenborough 41)Milan Kundera 42)Mohammed Al-Fayed 43)Teddie Beverley 44)Mel Brooks 45)Sandy Gall 46)Cleo Laine 47)Harry Belafonte 48)Ted Kaczynski 49) Norman Tebbit 50)Shane MacGowan

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Bit of controversy on Forums Dot Crowdsourced Deathlist Dot Net tonight, as some of the regulars spotted msc starting new threads for Marianne Faithfull and Johnny Irwin....

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6 minutes ago, msc said:

Bit of controversy on Forums Dot Crowdsourced Deathlist Dot Net tonight, as some of the regulars spotted msc starting new threads for Marianne Faithfull and Johnny Irwin....

It’s my tradition to start new threads in January. 

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The annual preshow - list up in an hour after main list reveal.

 

DROPPED Milos Zeman, Douglas Hurd, Jake the Snake, Jean Marsh

 

DQS – none!

 

NEAR MISSES – Prunella Scales, Imelda Marcos, Burt Bacharach (each within 5 points of qualifying), Nigel Lawson, Violeta Chamorro, Joss Ackland, Pervez Musharraf, William Russell, Steve McMichael, Cleo Laine

 

LAST MINUTE BANDWAGON TOO LATE – Clint Eastwood, Dennis Skinner, Buzz Aldrin, Robert Wagner (all had big swings in their favour late on, but were too far behind to qualify)

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9 minutes ago, msc said:

NEAR MISSES – Prunella Scales, Imelda Marcos, Burt Bacharach (each within 5 points of qualifying), Nigel Lawson, Violeta Chamorro, Joss Ackland, Pervez Musharraf, William Russell, Steve McMichael, Cleo Laine

 

Dream blunt rotation.

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50th

David Graham

2nd appearance, 47th last year

391 points

Grandpa Pig

 

49th

Duke of Kent

NEW

392 points

Grand Old Duke

 

48th

Vera Miles

NEW

395 points

Psycho Star/Gooseberry’s Highlight of 2023

 

47th

James Watson

2nd appearance, 29th last year

397 points

Scientist

 

46th

Francoise Hardy

2nd appearance, 33rd last year

407 points

Big in France

 

45th

Topol

NEW

408 points

If He was a rich man….

 

44th

James Earl Jones

NEW

409 points

Your FATHER

 

43rd

Norman Lear

2nd appearance, 40th last year

443 points

Big in America

 

42nd

Randy Jackson

NEW

448 points

Not Michael’s Brother

 

41st

Stanley Baxter

NEW

448 points

Parliamo Deathlisto!

 

40th

Sonny Rollins

NEWS

457 points

Jazz Man

 

39th

Marianne Faithfull

NEW

477 points

Singer

 

38th

Ryuichi Sakamoto

NEW

486 points

Last Christmas, Mr Lawrence

 

37th

Noam Chomsky

2nd appearance, returnee

488 points

Rent-a-Cynic

 

36th

David Attenborough

NEW

499 points

Mr BBC

 

35th

Jacques Delors

2nd appearance, 45th place

511 points

Not a Sun Reader

 

34th

Norman Tebbit

2nd appearance, 32nd last year

516 points

Sean’s Cuddly Uncle

 

33rd

Giorgio Napolitano

NEW

526 points

Drol favourite

 

32nd

Shannen Doherty

3rd appearance, 21st last year

528 points

Beverly Hills

 

31st

Rob Burrow

NEW

534 points

Rugby Legend

 

30th

Jean Marie Le Pen

NEW

535 points

Old Racist

 

29th

Bobby Charlton

2nd appearance, 36th last year

536 points

World Cup winner

 

28th

Sandra Day O’Connor

NEW

544 points

Supreme Court Judge

 

27th

Yoko Ono

4th appearance, 28th last year

552 points

Beatles Wife

 

26th

Ted Kaczyinski

NEW

560 points

Unabomber

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25th

Milan Kundera

NEW

566 points

Stunningly Popular Novelist

 

24th

Constantine II

NEW

567 points

Frailer than the QE2 (as she is now)

 

23rd

Mel Brooks

NEW

573 points

Comedy Legend

 

22nd

Andy Taylor

NEW

614 points

Is there something he should know?

 

21st

Nigel Starmer-Smith

NEW

623 points

Rugby Commentator

 

20th

Ruth Buzzi

NEW

641 points

Funny Girl

 

19th

Dick Van Dyke

2nd appearance, 39th last year

681 points

Professional Cockney

 

18th

June Spencer

2nd appearance, returnee

736 points

Archers Legend

 

17th

Eva Marie Saint

3rd appearance, returnee

769 points

Vertigo Star

 

16th

Linda Nolan

4th appearance, 15th last year

799 points

Nolan Sister

 

15th

Jonnie Irwin

NEW

874 points

Man off the Telly

 

14th

Tony Bennett

2nd appearance, 22nd last year

890 points

Crooner

 

13th

Rosalynn Carter

5th appearance, 27th last year

915 points

Peanut Farmer’s Wife

 

12th

Harry Belafonte

3rd appearance, 17th last year

916 points

Singer/Activist

 

11th

Gianluca Vialli

NEW

957 points

Italy Legend

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10th

Frank Field

2nd appearance, 3rd last year

988 points

Labour Legend/Contrarian

 

9th

James Whale

3rd appearance, 14th last year

993 points

Talksport Host

 

8th

Roberta Flack

NEW

1037 points

Killing Her Softly

 

7th

Glynis Johns

7th appearance, 9th last year

1084 points

Suffragette

 

6th

Joanne Woodward

6th place, 20th last year

1124 points

Actress

 

5th

George Alagiah

5th appearance, 7th last year

1246 points

BBC Newsreader

 

4th

Henry Kissinger

4th appearance, 13th last year

1285 points

Prince of Darkness

 

3rd

Bob Barker

5th appearance, 8th last year

1410 points

Quiz Guy

 

2nd

Rolf Harris

NEW

1600 points

Glastonbury Icon 1970-2013

 

1st

Jimmy Carter

8th appearance, 2nd last year

1807 points

Peanuts Farmer

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Here is your complete TCD list for 2023, as voted for by the forum.

 

1.       Jimmy Carter 1807 (8th, 2nd)

2.       Rolf Harris 1600 (NEW)

3.       Bob Barker 1410 (5th, 8th)

4.       Henry Kissinger 1285 (4th, 13th)

5.       George Alagiah 1246 (5th, 7th)

6.       Joanne Woodward 1124 (6th, 20th)

7.       Glynis Johns 1084 (7th, 9th)

8.       Roberta Flack 1037 (NEW)

9.       James Whale 963 (3rd, 14th)

10.   Frank Field 988 (2nd, 3rd)

11.   Gianluca Vialli 957 (NEW)

12.   Harry Belafonte 916 (3rd, 17th)

13.   Rosalynn Carter 915 (5th, 27th)

14.   Tony Bennett 890 (2nd, 22nd)

15.   Jonnie Irwin 874 (NEW)

16.   Linda Nolan 799 (4th, 15th)

17.   Eva Marie Saint 769 (3rd, -)

18.   June Spencer 736 (2nd, -)

19.   Dick van Dyke 681 (2nd, 39th)

20.   Ruth Buzzi 641 (NEW)

21.   Nigel Starmer Smith 623 (NEW)

22.   Andy Taylor 614 (NEW)

23.   Mel Brooks 573 (NEW)

24.   Constantine II 567 (NEW)

25.   Milan Kundera 566 (NEW)

26.   Ted Kaczyinski 560 (NEW)

27.   Yoko Ono 552 (4th, 28th)

28.   Sandra Day O’Connor 544 (NEW)

29.   Bobby Charlton 536 (2nd, 36th)

30.   Jean marie le pen 535 (NEW)

31.   Rob Burrow 534 (NEW)

32.   Shannen Doherty 528 (3rd, 21st)

33.   Giorgio Napolitano 526 (NEW)

34.   Norman Tebbit 516 (2nd, 32nd)

35.   Jacques Delors 511 (2nd, 46th)

36.   David Attenborough 499 (NEW)

37.   Noam Chomsky 488 (2nd, -)

38.   Ryuichi Sakamoto 486 (NEW)

39.   Marianne Faithfull 477 (NEW)

40.   Sonny Rollins 457 (NEW)

41.   Stanley Baxter 448 (NEW)

42.   Randy Jackson 448 (NEW)

43.   Norman Lear 443 (2nd, 40th)

44.   James Earl Jones 409 (NEW)

45.   Topol 408 (NEW)

46.   Francoise Hardy 407 (2nd, 33rd)

47.   James Watson 397 (2nd, 29th)

48.   Vera Miles 395 (NEW)

49.   Duke of Kent 392 (NEW)

50.   David Graham 391 (2nd, 47th)

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@msc Delighted to see that Vera Miles has finally made it onto the crowdsourced list! I certainly tried my best to promote her!

I think she will prove to be a wise choice. 

 

Oh I doubt it will change anything much  if at all  but Anita Pointer has died which brings June Lockhart my sub in. 

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Awesome job, msc. The additions seem rather fine to me. We had to replace half of it, always interesting to see who gets traction and who doesn't.

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LA DOLCA MORTO

 

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6th January 2023

 

Mega-popular football star Gianluca Vialli has died, aged only 58, after a lengthy battle with the dreaded pancreatic cancer. Regarded as a gentleman in the game even by his opponents, he continued to fund his charity for ALS support even as he lay on his own deathbed. Vialli launched his career at Cremonese, but he became internationally known for his time at Sampdoria, where he helped the team win their only Serie A title, and took them to the European Cup final. Again, Sampdoria. In a European Cup final. It was at I Blucerchiati that Vialli formed his partnership with Robert Mancini, first as a formidable team on the pitch, and later as the great bromance of Italian football, with the two friends inseparable for the next near 40 years.

 

Vialli won the Cup Winners Cup with Sampdoria, before a move to Juventus, where he finally got his hands on the Champions League itself. He wound in England, playing for Chelsea and in 1998, the nouveau riche (even before Abramovich) club asked him to be a very rare English top flight player-manager. In those days, Chelsea had only won five trophies in a century. Gianluca Vialli saw that challenge, and proceeded to win five trophies in two years. This was 50% of their entire Cabinet before Russian money took over, for the record. Vialli was sacked, somewhat prematurely, in 2000, but he remained a Chelsea fan favourite for the rest of his life.

 

Vialli slid into a role as an insightful TV pundit, while investing in interests and running his charity, but in 2019 he took a role in best friend Robert Mancini’s Italy coaching team, as Italy won their first European Championship since the 1960s. But even at that point, in summer 2021, he knew he was on borrowed time. 

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EXILED FROM LIFE

 

2/50

 

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(What do you mean, it's the wrong guy?)

 

10th January 2022

 

When Constantine II was unable, due to health, to make Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in September, the royal ambulance chasers knew something was amiss. And so he debuted on The Crowdsourced Deathlist, only to decide he didn’t want to stay a mere ten days into the year. Constantine was King of Greece from 1964 until 1973. When the Colonels Coup happened in 1967, Constantine was forced to accept their rule and rush off to exile. In his absence, the junta abolished the monarchy. When they were ousted, Constantine returned, only to find that a referendum backed the continued abolition of his job. To his credit, he publicly supported the new republic, and eventually he returned to Greece for good where he was viewed as a historical curiosity. He suffered from heart issues in later life, and a bout of covid last night didn’t help. He was eighty-two and the second hit from this years selection.

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Harry Belafonte is the first hit here for someone who was not a new entry in this year's list

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CHAIM TOPOLS

 

3/50

 

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8th March 2023

 

Popular Israeli heavyweight actor Topol has died, after a period of ill health, to provide The Crowdsourced Deathlist with another success. Topol had gained a stellar reputation as a theatre and musicals actor in the 1960s, touring with with the Batzal Yarok, before moving to cinema in the mid-60s. His breakthrough role was that of Tevye, star of Fiddler on the Roof, which he played on Broadway and in the 1971 film. His musical background allowed the full baritone of If I Was a Rich Man to liven the screen. This gave him international recognition and he would take on important roles in Flash Gordon and the James Bond flick For Your Eyes Only. Although, in the latter, the reveal Topol is actually the good guy all along would work better if the reveal wasn’t just him telling us! He remained a TV and film regular, but it was the stage that he loved most, playing at all the great theatres in a variety of roles, from Tevye to Shakespeare, until his health declined. This was his first appearance on the list.

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MERRY FUNERAL, MR LAWRENCE

 

 

4/50

 

 

The unyielding spirit of Ryuichi Sakamoto | The Japan Times

 

28th March 2023

 

Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has sadly died after a long battle with cancer, to give The Crowdsourced Deathlist a melancholic success. Sakamoto made his career as part of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, the 70s electronic band. He died weeks after his fellow bandmate Yukihiro Takahashi. He moved equally free in classical and film composing circles, and his opus, the score for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, won him the Oscar. In David Bowie’s iconoclastic World War Two tale of forbidden gay love in a prisoner of war camp, Sakamoto, in his acting debut, played the role of Bowie’s romantic interest with a noble gravitas, while refusing to whitewash the Japanese war experience. It was a complex role vastly more experienced actors would have struggled with.

 

From there, Sakamoto was the composer for the opening ceremony of the Barcelona Olympics, gained the first Japanese number one instrumental track, and his film work included The Last Emperor and The Revenant. He was also an outspoken defender of musicians getting proper royalties for their work, and a renowned anti-nuclear activist in his homeland. Even as he slowly lost a lengthy battle with cancer, he continued his life long environmentalism campaigning from his own bedroom, sending letters in support of various movements. A winner of the Oscar, the Grammy, the Golden Globe, the BAFTA, as well as having acting acclaim, and international chart success, the widely popular Ryuichi Sakamoto packed a lot into his 71 years on the planet, and we mourn his loss.

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HARRY’S ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW GRIM

 

 

5/50

 

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25th April 2023

 

Film, music and civil rights icon Harry Belafonte has died to give a heavyweight success to The Crowdsourced Deathlist. Belafonte’s legendary career began in the 1940s as a New York club singer, but a friendship with Miles Davis and Charlie Parker launched his pop career. It wasn’t until Calypso in 1956 that he achieved world wide fame, selling more than 1 million copies that year, and launching Day-O and Jamaica Farewell on the public conscience. His musical career stretched over seventy years, during which time he worked with Dylan, Sinatra, the Beatles, and, most importantly of all, Kermit the Frog. He also sang during the inauguration of President Kennedy.

 

His film career was equally important. Carmen Jones was one of the first American films co-starred by two lead black actors. In 1950s America, he took on interracial romance in Island in the Sun, and racism and crime in Odds Against Tomorrow. But while he became a favourite of Hollywood subversives like Otto Preminger, Belafonte was not afraid to call out his friends – he turned down Preminger’s offer of Porgy and Bess, citing it being a racial stereotype. In recent years he appeared in BlackKkKlansman, the Spike Lee film.

 

Yet his humanitarian career dwarfed even those solid legacies. An protégé at an early age of Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte had already been blacklisted by the McCarthy witch hunts in the 1950s, before he became friends and allies with Martin Luther King. He raised money for King’s marches, he bailed King out of jail, he promoted civil rights on every platform he stood. He was an early public voice against South African apartheid, a lifelong promoter of UNICEF, and a frequent critic of hawk government policies. When told his views on the Bush government were unpatriotic, he said that dissent is crucial to democracy.

 

Harry Belafonte was ninety-six.

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Rolf Harris dead

 

6/50

 

23rd May 2023

 

Remember when Rolf Harris was a universally beloved kids TV entertainer?

 

Clorox doesn't.

 

This is partly because Clorox is bloody young. 

 

But mostly because Rolf torpedoed all that reputation a decade ago, when he was revealed to have been a serial abuser of young children.

 

This is already more words than Ian Brady and Pope Benedict got, but less than Henry Kissinger will get when he goes...any day now. 

 

This is the first time Rolf Harris was picked for the Crowdsourced list, because its the first time anyone thought the old fucker was going to die. Which he has.

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49 minutes ago, msc said:

Remember when Rolf Harris was a universally beloved kids TV entertainer?

 

Clorox doesn't.

 

This is partly because Clorox is bloody young. 

 

But mostly because Rolf torpedoed all that reputation a decade ago, when he was revealed to have been a serial abuser of young children.

 

OBJECTION! I wasn't born yesterday (but continue pointing to me as the stereotypical zoomer because it's funny).

 

Around 2009/10 he was on a show like Top Gear or The One Show. He was showing off the wobble board to the young viewers. My dad then went on YouTube and showed me clips of him, which he also did with The Two Ronnies, Monty Python, etc.

 

He looked a lot like my grandad who was the same age. Up until Yewtree it was hard to miss him. He soured way more than one generation's childhood memories.

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