The Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Thread

[Whitehouse 872]

I posted him in "authors", I could post him in "the Dutch" but above all Dutch writing legend Joost Zwagerman is a Z.

[gcreptile 10,972]

Franco Zeffirelli had pneunomia in October and is back in hospital because of complications or something:

 

http://www.nachrichten.at/nachrichten/society/Zeffirelli-in-Klinik-wegen-Folgen-einer-Lungenentzuendung;art411,2057858(german link)

 

The family however assures that his state is not critical.

[YoungWillz 21,050]

*snip*

 

Émile Derlin Zinsou, former President of Benin, 91, would likely get an international obit, but I don't know about his health.

 

*snip*

 

Zinsou dead at 98: http://www.africanews.com/2016/07/29/former-president-of-benin-emile-zinsou-dead/

 

Edit: This leaves Franco Zeffirelli as the only survivor from CP's original post.

[drol 11,951]

Zhou Youguang will probably be next.

[gcreptile 10,972]

Brazil World Cup champion Mario Zagallo hospitalised for unknown reasons:

 

https://www.enca.com/sport/mario-zagallo-hospitalised

 

Happy Birthday!

 

Edit: He also carried the Olympic torch recently, just like that plastic surgeon.

[YoungWillz 21,050]

American horror show personality John Zacherle (or Zacherley) dead at 98. https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/197076/rest-peace-john-zacherle-aka-zacherley-cool-ghoul/

[gcreptile 10,972]

Franco Zeffirelli looking the worst I've ever seen a living person look in this picture:

 

http://www.lanazione.it/firenze/cultura/zeffirelli-museo-1.3432136

[Toast 16,140]

44 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

Franco Zeffirelli looking the worst I've ever seen a living person look in this picture:

 

http://www.lanazione.it/firenze/cultura/zeffirelli-museo-1.3432136

 

Weekend At Franco's ?

[YoungWillz 21,050]

Been a while since I posted here.

 

Anyway, German-born actor Peter Zander has died aged 96: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=peter-zander&pid=191346784

 

Very much a 1960s face in the UK with appearances in The Avengers, Compact and Dixon Of Dock Green.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0418373/

[gcreptile 10,972]

On 27/03/2009 at 20:37, Canadian Paul said:

Franco Zeffirelli was on my list a bit too - 86 and quite famous - but he seems to be fairly active these days.

Franco Zeffirelli has died at 95:

https://www.iltempo.it/news-adn-kronos/2019/06/15/news/e-morto-franco-zeffirelli-1173883/

[YoungWillz 21,050]

British electronic music pioneer Peter Zinovieff reportedly dead: 

 

[YoungWillz 21,050]

5 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

British electronic music pioneer Peter Zinovieff reportedly dead: 

 

Peter Zinovieff Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jun/26/peter-zinovieff-british-composer-and-synth-pioneer-dies-aged-88

[gcreptile 10,972]

Former US representative for the state of New Hampshire Bill Zeliff has died at 85:

https://www.wmur.com/article/former-us-rep-bill-zeliff-has-died-at-85/38004068

[YoungWillz 21,050]

Nick Zedd, underground film maker who coined the term Cinema Of Transgression for a group of indie black humour film makers in the 1980s, reportedly dead: 

I can't access Instagram particular post however: https://www.instagram.com/nickzedd/?hl=en

 

His gofundme sounds like a shopping list of ailments: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-nick-zedd-family-with-medical-emergency

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0954143/

[Ulitzer95 12,641]

4 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Nick Zedd, underground film maker who coined the term Cinema Of Transgression for a group of indie black humour film makers in the 1980s, reportedly dead.

*snip*

I can't access Instagram particular post however: https://www.instagram.com/nickzedd/?hl=en

 

His gofundme sounds like a shopping list of ailments: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-nick-zedd-family-with-medical-emergency

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0954143/

Mexican media now reporting.

Cancer, hepatitis C and cirrhosis of the liver. Ouch. That's either self-inflicted or very unlucky.

[YoungWillz 21,050]

Times Obit for Polish lieutenant colonel and historian Stanislaw Zurakowski aged 103: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stanislaw-zurakowski-obituary-58h9r2s6b

 

Centenarian deadpool pick I understand.

[gcreptile 10,972]

Holocaust survivor Stefan Jerzy Zweig, the "child of Buchenwald", dead at 83, already since February.

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/stefan-jerzy-zweig-ist-tot-a-7e4bf8fa-fe52-43ac-999f-20acbf5c61a3

 

He was heavily featured in the book Naked Among Wolves.