Brendan Gallagher
Brendan Gallagher: No-one is immune to this awful disease
I wonder if, by chance, you can guess what the following had in common: American photographer Eddie Adams; Japanese karate master Hideyuki Ashihara; Icelandic actor Edda Heiorun Backman; American politician Marc Basnight; American actors Katharine Balfour and Robert Webber; Belgian singer and TV personality Bea Van der Maat; New South Wales cricketer Bob Vidler; renowned American Czech mathematician Robin Thomas; Aussie tennis player and coach Brad Drewett; Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich; Irish broadcaster Colm Murray; British Oscar winning actor David Niven; and former Chinese leader Mao Zedong?
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