Dead pool 2022

[HVC]

96. Almost made it to her centennial

[Barrister]

96. Almost made it to her centennial

I was convinced she'd outlive her mother, who made it to 102.

[HVC]

She seemed to have taken a bit of a turn after her husband passed. Don't know if the harry Meghan parade had any effect, but some in the media will no doubt claim it did.

[The Larch]

Jean Luc Godard has passed away at 91.

[Barrister]

RIP Kenneth Starr.  His claim to fame was being the independent counsel who investigated Bill Clinton in the 90s, leading to Clinton's impeachment.

[Duque de Bragança]

Jean Luc Godard has passed away at 91.

RIP

[Razgovory]

RIP Kenneth Starr.  His claim to fame was being the independent counsel who investigated Bill Clinton in the 90s, leading to Clinton's impeachment.

He died on National "Bald is Beautiful day"  How Ironic.

[Admiral Yi]

He died on National "Bald is Beautiful day"  How Ironic.

Somebody has a new calendar.

[Josquius]

The Queen.
And to counterbalance likely but terrible - Trump.

In for a penny....

[The Larch]

Jean Luc Godard has passed away at 91.

After talking today with my father (who just turned 70) about Godard's passing he mentioned that all the Nouvelle Vague directors and most of the related actors that he used to watch in his youth are dead already. Out of morbid curiosity I went to check it and indeed Godard was the last of the Nouvelle Vague directors still alive, and also most of their big name actors are dead as well, with the exception of Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve.

I then went on to check the people from the New Hollywood era and jeez, the next decade or so is going to be a bloodbath. Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman are 92, Woody Allen is 86, Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty are 85, Coppola and Harvey Keitel are 83, Faye Dunaway is 81, Barbra Streisand is 80, and I'm not counting the lot of them who are in their 70s.

[crazy canuck]

Of that list Hackman would be the biggest blow for me - he seemed to pop up in a lot of the movies I enjoyed the most.  I can't bring myself to think about him as an old man now.  But I am now likely older than he was when he made the movies I liked best.  Getting old sucks.

[grumbler]

I like Clint Eastwood as a director as much as I like him as an actor, so his death is going to hit me pretty hard - he hasn't retired and his death will rob us of more of his work.

[crazy canuck]

I like Clint Eastwood as a director as much as I like him as an actor, so his death is going to hit me pretty hard - he hasn't retired and his death will rob us of more of his work.

That is a good point.  I change my answer to both Hackman and Eastwood 

[The Larch]

I like Clint Eastwood as a director as much as I like him as an actor, so his death is going to hit me pretty hard - he hasn't retired and his death will rob us of more of his work.

That is a good point.  I change my answer to both Hackman and Eastwood 

The two 92 y.o. 

[crazy canuck]

I like Clint Eastwood as a director as much as I like him as an actor, so his death is going to hit me pretty hard - he hasn't retired and his death will rob us of more of his work.

That is a good point.  I change my answer to both Hackman and Eastwood 

The two 92 y.o. 

Get off my lawn kid