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Conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi shows up in good health at a concert: https://slippedisc.com/2024/04/a-rare-concert-sighting-of-christoph-von-dohnanyi/ He's 94 years old now and must have recovered well from that health crisis a couple of years ago - also mentioned in the article.

Chris de Burgh "is happy if he gets to live another day" according to Germany's BILD: https://m.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/chris-de-burgh-bin-schon-froh-wenn-ich-morgen-noch-am-leben-bin-87858114.bildMobile.html But actually, he seems to be doing quite well at now 75.

Dozing off at court: https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/15/what-trump-is-doing-in-the-courtroom/ There might be a non-zero chance that this trial, which, in the grand scheme of things, is the least of all the possible crimes that he might face trial for, is the one that brings him down. Would be fitting though - the hush money to a pornstar story... This is a simple narrative, easy to understand, that he couldn't delay - because it's too small a case. He'll be a convicted felon. But even more, he might be forced to be on public display for hours. He might not be able to distract the audience with speeches or insults.

That viral marketing for the new Fallout series on Amazon Prime is a bit much for me.

Ah well, it's a game of probability. You just have to pick likely candidates and hope that 2-3 of them actually die. But yeah, last month showed that there's no 100% pick.

Banana's captain of last month, DJ Isaac Cool has died: https://www.myjoyonline.com/starr-fms-dj-isaac-cool-passes-on/ He'd lasted so long with his terrible injuries, you'd have thought he would be in recovery.

I doubt it's even possible if the nerve system is connected. It must be an existence we cant really imagine.

The Schappell twins, world's oldest conjoined twins, are dead at 62: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/4/worlds-oldest-conjoined-twins-lori-and-george-die-aged-62-768511

I know, it's controversial and it will always be. And he was not squeaky-clean. I do wonder why "If I Did it" exists, the deflection theory makes sense to me.

Ahem... I also kind of think he didn't do it, but he nevertheless wanted to have the attention on him, as a sort of cover-up. I've heard the theory that he might have protected on of his elder children from the first marriage. A cover-up for a different crime might also be plausible. I don't know, in my mind, he doesn't look like a murderer. I can totally believe that Bill Cosby did it, the crimes were hiding in plain sight. I never got that vibe from Simpson. His former Twitter page made me think that he was more of a "player", a more suitable character for a small-time (or medium-time) criminal. You'd have to be a really big sociopath to have such a light-hearted persona in spite of having committed a murder.

German A-list actor Til Schweiger (International audiences may have seen him in Inglorious Basterds) suffers from sepsis and is hospitalised: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/til-schweiger-leidet-offenbar-an-sepsis-a-392f145a-bc47-48de-990e-a03da4a45b95 He has an open leg wound since last August.

Dead Toleman! Founder of the Toleman F1 racing team Ted Toleman has died yesterday after some health problems noted by (of course!) Octopus of Odstock. In fact, most players of the game ignored OoO's post, which is a shame, because they are among the most knowledgeable on this site. The Toleman team wasn't really successful in their four years, but they gave Ayrton Senna his first chance in the Formula One, and were later purchased by Benetton, now the Alpine F1 Team. wannamaker makes up some ground (so half of my prediction in the previous post came true), and msc puts the last scoreless match-up on the board. Perhaps 3-0 theoldlady GuyFromFuture 3-3 Hell DeathByArsenic 3-0 arghton wannamaker 3-7 MariNisia Banana 0-3 Annami CalebH 0-3 msc DevonDeathTrip 7-0 SirCreep max_bossetti 11-3 Cpt. Hemlock

I choose Esther Rantzen and Kris Hallenga.

Hard to tell with the dementia footballers. Two years ago, I filled up empty slots with the dementia folks, but Jimmy Calderwood is still alive. Gordon McQueen died last year. Tony Claypole already died in 2022, but didn't obit... These are tough calls...

Well, that gave me the idea to walk around the world, only, somebody already did that (as much as possible), Briton Rosie Swale-Pope, now 77 years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Swale-Pope