Derby Dead Pool

As a player, “Terrible” Ted Lindsay was a never-say-die pitbull of a hockey star, who made up for his diminutive stature (he was just 5’8) with a rough-house rink-style and a penchant for elbowing his way through games. He formed part of the Detroit Red Wings’ “Production Line”, alongside fellow future hall-of-famers Sid Abel and […]

Nicknamed the “Machete Murderer”, at one point Juan Corona was the most prolific known serial killer in U.S. history. His star may have faded in the past 40 years but we’ll give him his props here. Born in Mexico, Corona came to the US at the age of 16 to work as a picker on […]

Dublin-born, Cork-raised, Kevin Roche had a career as a quintessentially American architect after moving to the country aged 26. He worked as an assistant to the legendary Eero Saarinen up until Saarinen’s death, at which point he took over the man’s projects – including St Louis’ Gateway Arch and the TWA Flight Center at JFK […]

The so-called “Willesee Pause” was a key feature of Australian news interviews for years: Mike Willesee would simply not talk, and politicians would – usually with fatal consequences. Willesee was a figure on Australian news for 50 years, from an upstart beat reporter to the man who changed the course of an election with a […]

Another year, another dead Soap star. However unlike Robert Mandan, who played Chester Tate in the classic, ground-breaking sitcom, Katherine Helmond had no issues getting an obituary. Helmond started her career off as a stage actress – receiving a Tony nomination in 1973 – and didn’t really develop a presence on TV or film until […]

Born Andreas Priwin in Berlin, Previn’s family escaped Nazi Germany and came to the United States when he was just 9. Seven years later, he was already working for MGM’s music department. His first credited piece of music was the score for the 1949 Lassie movie The Sun Comes Up, which he later called “one […]

Your first time singing on stage is bound to be nerve-wrecking. Especially if it’s opera. Especially if it’s at the Vienna State Opera. Especially if you’re 29 and had no formal training. Especially if it’s in the lead role of Aida. And you have the first lines. And it’s the first time the opera has […]

Kent Football United, a fifth-tier women’s football team with a website that hasn’t been updated since 2016, probably aren’t used to setting too many records. However, one of their players has now booked a place in DDP history. Jordan Dawes, who played in goal for the Dartford-based outfit and was formerly on the books at […]

Pity the makers of this year’s Oscar “In Memoriam” package, who now have to rearrange everything in Premiere Pro to fit Stanley Donen in. The last surviving director of note from Hollywood’s Golden Age, he was often referred to as the “king of the musicals”. Starting off as a Broadway dancer, he soon developed a […]

The murder of Anita Cobby in 1986 remains one of Australia’s most notorious crimes. The former beauty queen was walking home from a train station when she was kidnapped by a gang of five men, who proceeded to repeatedly rape and torture her over a period of hours, before slitting her throat to prevent her […]