Ideas and Possibilities for 2021

[drol 11,923]

On 20/05/2020 at 11:49, drol said:

The loss of a good number of immortals this year prompts me to underline how a new generation of them is emerging.

 

1)Syed Ahmed Ali Shah Geelani (1929): suffered from heart failure and recurrent pneumonia for the last bunch of years. Reported dead or on the brik of death many times.

2)Lee Teng-hui (1923): Has been in hospital for months. He survived a severe cerebral hemorrhage last year and has suffered from a large number of ailments.

3)Thich Nhat Hanh (1926): Reported to be dying almost two years ago, he is still being wheeled out each day. Stroke survivor and also manages recurrent pneumonia with ease.

4)Sumner Redstone (1923): Has been a vegetable for years and reportedly bedridden and incredibly frail. Still he persists.

5)Stanley Ho (1921): Every day thousands of money are spent by his family to keep him alive at Hong Kong Sanatorium. Cerebral hemorrhage survivor and has suffered from multiple organ failure, which he survived gleefully. Reported to be "on the brink of death" in January.

6)Balbir Singh, Sr. (1923): Well, you all know him. He survived just everything. Every time we see him bouncing back we think "Is this  fucking joke?", but it isn't.

7)Mikis Theodorakis (1925): A greek copycat of Dilip Kumar, fat, obese and suffering from heart failure. Always about to die, but never does.

8)Dilip Kumar (1922): Probably the last original immortal still alive.

9)Fauja Singh (1911): He is not the man he used to be. His health is slowly declining both physically and mentally wahtever his real age is. Does not look so invincible as he did.

10)Nobby Stiles (1942): Suffering from just everything for years and yet surviving a lot of teammamtes. Amazing.

11)Everton Weekes (1925): It has been in and out of hospital for him since that massive heart attack from June and could have spent months there. 

12)Gigi Simoni (1939): Has been in a coma for over a year, and no sign his condition is deteriorating.

13)Monica Vitti aka Joanne Woodward (1931/1930): Been in the late stages of dementia for damn years. Still seem undestructible.

14)Leslie Phillips (1924): More a cadaver than a person.

Lee Teng-hui has been removed as president of his "biotechnological society" as chances of recovery seem dim and he is still hospitalized.

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,337]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8371473/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Jonathan-Aitken-77-survives-heart-attack-induced-coronavirus.html

 

Former controversial tory MP Jonathan Aitken has suffered a heart attack at the age of 77.

Definitely should be on peoples radar.

 

 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

17 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8371473/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Jonathan-Aitken-77-survives-heart-attack-induced-coronavirus.html

 

Former controversial tory MP Jonathan Aitken has suffered a heart attack at the age of 77.

Is there another kind?

[gcreptile 10,964]

Alexandre Despallieres, who is a murder suspect in the death of Australian millionaire and recording executive Peter Ikin, is apparently so ill...he might not make it to court:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8371831/Murder-charges-11-YEARS-death-Australian-multi-millionaire.html

 

Supposedly, he has Aids and multiple brain tumours... but he's also a bit of a shady person, so... decide for yourselves.

[ladyfiona 2,577]

May be nothing, but Ian Holm is 88 and he couldn't make it to the LOTR online reunion via Zoom. He is either ill or can't work a computer, lol.

[Dead Wait 1,129]

13 minutes ago, ladyfiona said:

May be nothing, but Ian Holm is 88 and he couldn't make it to the LOTR online reunion via Zoom. He is either ill or can't work a computer, lol.

 

....or both.....

[Miracle Aligner 249]

37 minutes ago, ladyfiona said:

May be nothing, but Ian Holm is 88 and he couldn't make it to the LOTR online reunion via Zoom. He is either ill or can't work a computer, lol.

 

Ian McKellan looks pretty well for an 81 year old...... though. 

[msc 18,437]

35 minutes ago, ladyfiona said:

May be nothing, but Ian Holm is 88 and he couldn't make it to the LOTR online reunion via Zoom. He is either ill or can't work a computer, lol.

 

April 2019

 

And from a 2017 FT interview with Mark Gatiss

 

Quote

Our afternoon tea stand is only half-finished — a miniature Victoria sponge untouched on top — but time is running out. Gatiss recognises someone at the door to the restaurant, a frail figure in a wheelchair, wearing a beanie. It’s Ian Holm, the 86-year-old actor who just three years ago was appearing as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit films. “He was brilliant,” says Gatiss, transfixed.

 

Frail and using a wheelchair for years.

[MrWonderful 480]

^

Adding him to my 2021 watchlist right now.  Good call here, I think. 

[ThePrematureBurial 224]

 I just found out that Gorbachev's chief ideologist & nr.2 in the  politburo, Yegor Ligachyov (Ligachev), born in 1920, is still alive.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yegor_Ligachyov

 

He was the "brain" behind Gorbachev's failed anti-alcohol campaign & the one who recruited Boris Yeltsin as co-worker. He was also involved in Yeltsin's sacking in 1987. 

 

If he survives this year, he'll be one of the most famous centenarians alive.

[Book 3,551]

Maybe Anne Clark.

Tour is cancelled because of her cancer treatment!

https://m.facebook.com/anne.clark.music/posts/10158738704423641

[RIP Wee Jum 1,559]

How about Mo Moreland (the main Roly Poly)  An obvious choice, and probably mentioned numerous tmes before, but I am watchng Les Dennis Forever and it mentoned she is suffering from poor health

[ladyfiona 2,577]

Mark Lawrenson looks ill. He also looks like Victor Meldrew.

 

 

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,887]

15 minutes ago, ladyfiona said:

Mark Lawrenson looks ill. He also looks like Victor Meldrew.

 

 

Jesus. Eyes are quite sunken. He did have a brush with cancer a few years ago but was under the impression he got over it

[YoungWillz 21,029]

1 hour ago, Wee Jum said:

How about Mo Moreland (the main Roly Poly)  An obvious choice, and probably mentioned numerous tmes before, but I am watchng Les Dennis Forever and it mentoned she is suffering from poor health

Why are people obsessed with Les Dennis?

 

Seriously though, that documentary on Les Dawson is 4 years old now - clue was Roy Barraclough was in it and he's been dead 3 years. And he looked one of the healthy ones.

 

Michael Aspel looked thrawn and my pick for this year Stanley Appel was old then.

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,337]

52 minutes ago, ladyfiona said:

Mark Lawrenson looks ill. He also looks like Victor Meldrew.

 

 

Without the Twitter account title giving away that it was Mark I would definitely think that was Richard Wilson 100%!

[RIP Wee Jum 1,559]

10 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Why are people obsessed with Les Dennis?

 

Yeah meant Les Dawson. 

It was the only bit I saw so wasn't paying too much attention at who was on it and what they looked like

[Eastend 10]

Sir Roger Penrose the esteemed mathematician will be 90 in 2021. Perhaps his number will be up.

[WEP 890]

On 31/05/2020 at 20:14, msc said:

 

April 2019

 

And from a 2017 FT interview with Mark Gatiss

 

 

Frail and using a wheelchair for years.

If you pick him, deathlist could get Holmless.

[GuyFromFuture 69]

Ian Holm will die Nov 14 2020

[Banana 859]

1 hour ago, GuyFromFuture said:

Ian Holm will die Nov 14 2020

 

What are you planning?

[Lafaucheuse 4,045]

some names that are worth keeping an eye on : 

 

- Federico Bahamontes (1928) : cyclist, "l'aigle de Tolède" 

- Just Fontaine (1933) : well known French footballer 

- Anne Vernon (1924) : actress best known for her role in Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

- Philippe Bouvard (1929) : reknown French journalist 

- Weinstein (1952) : definitely worth an inclusion on next year list giving his recent health scares 

- Edouard Balladur (1929) : French former PM 

- Albert II de Belgique (1935) : former king of Belgium

[Spade_Cooley 9,515]

You know those names that just fit in your head with "tributes have been paid to x, who was found dead at their home earlier today"? In the past I've thought Lennie Bennett and Lesley Gore both fitted that mantle, and both met their maker in subsequent years. The latest name that I think fits that bill is Ben Vereen. 

[Spade_Cooley 9,515]

Also, @Sir Creep: any chance of Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak getting this Gris Gris callup in 2021?

[Sir Creep 7,070]

11 hours ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Also, @Sir Creep: any chance of Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak getting this Gris Gris callup in 2021?

She may be team captain already