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MOROUNIC PICK? NO, UNIQUE! Sir Creep’s Cancel My Appointments team has been rather underwhelming this year (they currently sit outside the top 100) so here is some rare 2020 cheer for him, a unique hit on his theme team, Made in Detroit. Manuel Moroun owned the Ambassador Bridge, the only private bridge between the US […]

MILOS JAKES IT IN   Milos Jakes, a name most of you thought died 20 years ago, has died. Jakes was the last Communist leader of Czechoslovakia from 1987 until he was deposed in the 1989 Velvet Revolution. His rise up the Communist party was aided by his hearty support of enemy purges, especially after […]

THE DEVIL CAME DOWN TO CHARLIE Charlie Daniels was a well known country music singer-songwriter. The Devil Went Down to Georgia (think Tenacious D’s Tribute, but with less jokes) was a worldwide smash hit in the 1970s, reaching the top 20 in the UK charts and third in the US Hot 100. “I don’t know […]

EVERTON NOW VERY WEEKES Sir Everton Weekes, the last surviving member of the famed West Indies 3 Ws, has died after a period of ill health. IN a long career he managed 12, 010 runs in 152 matches, and was considered one of the best cricket players in the world in the 1950s, with the […]

HUGH DOWNED American TV host Hugh Downs has died aged 99. He was best known in America for host news panel show 20/20, which turned out to be an accurate projection of his longevity. He also hosted The Today Show (the US equivalent of Good Morning) from 1962 to 1971, making him a sort of […]

REIN WHEN I DIE Mel Brooks best friend has died the day after Mel Brooks birthday. Talk about timing. Carl Reiner, who was tweeting until a few days before his death, was considered a legend in US TV. Not only was he the co-writer and muse for Brooks, and the father of Rob “This Is […]

CRISTAL BALL REVEALS LATEST HIT Argentine actress Linda Cristal has died age 89. She made her name in the 1950s in Western films and TV appearances in shows such as Rawhide. It was Westerns that provided her biggest fame, as Victoria Cannon in The High Chaparral, a role for which she won a Golden Globe. […]