Celebrity Death Pool 2011
 

Pick 10. Points per hit = 111-age at death. Celebrity = death reported (not just an obit) in National newspaper/TV news in your country.

I'mm'a start with

1) Michael Douglas
2) David Hasselhoff
3) Margaret Thatcher
4) Prince Phillip

I'm working on the rest -Loch Aberbie bomber had 3 months to live? coughbullshitcough

1) Tara Reid
2) Elizabeth Taylor
3) Ann B Davis
4) Laraine Newman
5) Ed Ames
6) Ernest Borgnine
7) Dick Cheney
8) Olivia de Havilland
9) Teri Garr
10) Muhammad Ali

5) Liz Taylor
6) Liz Dawn
7) Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
8) Dick Cheney
9) Nelson Mandela
10) work in progress


The following are still alive and have been dropped from my 2010 list, thus condemning them to certain death. Sorry, guys


Severiano Ballesteros

10) Ronnie Biggs

My picks apparently assure the continuing good health of all the participants.

I have replaced the political figures with some more likely choices

1. Roger Moore
2. Brittany Spears
3. Dick Clark
4. Paris Hilton
5. Donald Trump
6. Charlie Watts
7. Larry King
8. Clint Eastwood
9. Keith Richards
10. Will Ferrell

I might be the most naive person in the world, but I hear so many stories about people given X amount of time to live, who live far longer. Often ascribed to the prayers of the local community - which spooks me, as it means God's plan is not ineffable, and also that those who die young just didn't get together enough petitions to bother Him.

Anyway, naif as I am, my list is pretty static.
This is the reason I buy Lucky Dip lottery tickets - I'd hate to play the same numbers regularly, and then miss it one week - and find they'd WON!
So I can't really abandon my staples - they'd cark in 2011 just to spite me. The main exception is Clive Dunn, as he is apparently going to live forever.

Ronnie Biggs
Fidel Castro
Margaret Thatcher
Patrick Moore
Mickey Rooney
Kim Jong-Il
Nancy Reagan
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Kirk Douglas
Betty Ford

So far I've only got
1. Julian Assange (by plane crash, I bet)

This will be my first entry into this thing

1. Charles Manson
2. Brian Wilson
3. Kirk Douglas
4. Dick Van Dyke
5. Bernie Madoff
6. Jimmy Carter
7. Bret Michaels
8. Steven Adler
9. Harry Belafonte
10. Michael Collins

What are the odds on a Douglas twofer?

1 Mary Kate Olson
2 Joe Namath
3 Dick Cheney
4 Eve Plumb
5 Harrison Ford
6 Edwin Meese
7 Jean Stapleton
8 Bob Woodward
9 Abe Vigoda
10 Rick Wakeman

1. James Bolam
2. Sylvestor McCoy (putting this here so that if anything does happen to Syl, I will be consoled by the points his demise would gain for me ).
3. Colin Baker (similar reason ;p)
4. Dick Cheney
5. Michael Douglas
6. Rita Tushingham
7. Terry Wogan
8. Bruce Forsythe
9. Christopher Walken
10. Boy George

Yeah, I muted Walken -he's not looking too good is he? That'd be some good points....

Again the Brits have all put Maggie there. How much of that is us looking at the evidence, and how much just wishful thinking? :P

She's been in hospital a lot recently.....

I have a soft spot for Maggie, mostly because she was the first female PM and she was strong. She may have been wrong, but she did a shitload of good for the image of women in politics, right or wrong. Some bad too... but I think she forced the UK if not the world to take female politicians seriously.

If I am drunk enough that's a point I will generally concede.

:)

RIP Pete Postlethwaite :(

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Apparently she's getting a lower leg amputated today because of gangreen. She's 93, so the whole of her is worth 7 points so I reckon that's about half a point for you already, SG.

:bolt:

Yay - I'll take her in bits and pieces if necessary.

Oh, I was so sad to hear about Pete Postlethwaite. He always used to remind me of my Dad. Something of the same air to him.

1. Benedict XVI
2. Ian Brady
3. Fidel Castro
4. Dick Cheney
5. Michael Douglas
6. Aretha Franklin
7. Geoffrey Hughes
8. Patrick Moore
9. Barack Obama
10. Vera Lynn

Here's my wish list . . .

Nancy Pelosi
Harry Reid
George Bush
Dick Cheney
Chris Dodd
Rush Limbaugh
Michelle Malkin
Keith Olbermann
Ann Coulter
Chris Matthews

Was there a winner/are there scores for 2010?

And I'll repeat from last year - They're gonna die eventually.

1. Fidel Castro
2. Jerry Lewis
3. Elizabeth Taylor
4. Muhammad Ali
5. Bob Barker
6. Ernest Borgnine
7. Sidney Poitier
8. Lindsey Lohan
9. Peter Faulk
10. Dick Clark

Political
1. Obama
2. Dick Cheney
3. Fidel Castro
4. Ayatollah al Khomeini

Other:
1. Muhammad Ali
2. Snookie
3. Dick Clark
4. Kirk Douglas
5. Michael Douglas

I think Sundae won last year.... not sure, though. I got three points for Michael Foot.

Get off my lawn ... err list.

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/a...ncis-dies.html

I Always thought she was a very good actress.


'Forbidden Planet' star Anne Francis dies at age 80
Jan. 3, 2011 08:07 AM
Associated Press
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LOS ANGELES -- Actress Anne Francis, who was the love interest in the 1950s science-fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and later was sexy private eye in "Honey West" on TV, has died at age 80.

Francis died Sunday at a Santa Barbara nursing home, said Bill Guntle, a funeral director McDermott-Crockett & Associates Mortuary in Santa Barbara.

Francis, who had surgery and chemotherapy after being diagnosed with lung cancer in 2007, died of complications of pancreatic cancer, her daughter, Jane Uemura, told the Los Angeles Times.

Francis, a stunningly beautiful blonde with a prominent beauty mark, appeared opposite such stars as Spencer Tracy, Paul Newman, Robert Taylor and Glenn Ford in some of the most popular films of the 1950s. But "Forbidden Planet" and "Honey West" made her reputation.

"Forbidden Planet" was hailed in Leonard Maltin's "2006 Movie Guide" as "one of the most ambitious and intelligent films of its genre."

A science-fiction retelling of Shakespeare's "The Tempest," the 1956 film had Leslie Nielsen and other space travelers visiting a planet where expatriate scientist Walter Pidgeon, his daughter (Francis) and their helper, Robby the Robot, built a settlement.

Before filming began, the actors held a meeting and agreed "to be as serious about this film as we could be," Francis said in a 1999 interview.

"We could have hammed it up, but we wanted to be as sincere as we could," she said.

In "Honey West," which aired from 1965 to 1966, Francis' private detective was a female James Bond, sexy, stylish and as good with martial arts as she was with a gun. She was nominated for an Emmy for the role, which lasted 30 episodes.

"A lot of people speak to me about Honey West," Francis recalled. "The character made young women think there was more they could reach for. It encouraged a lot of people."

After a childhood career in New York radio and television and on the Broadway stage, Francis arrived in Hollywood when she landed a movie contract at MGM. She later went to 20th Century-Fox, then returned to MGM, and the two big studios afforded her the chance to act opposite the biggest male stars of the day.

In "Blackboard Jungle," the landmark 1955 film about an idealistic teacher (Ford) in a violent city school, Francis played his pregnant wife who is targeted for harassment by one of his students.

Among her other films: "Bad Day at Black Rock" with Tracy and Robert Ryan, "Rogue Cop" with Taylor, "The Rack" with Newman, "A Lion Is in the Streets" with James Cagney, and "Hook, Line and Sinker" opposite Jerry Lewis.

When her movie career declined, Francis became active in television, appearing in dozens of series, including "Mission Impossible," ''The Virginian," ''My Three Sons," ''Ironside," ''Gunsmoke," ''The Twilight Zone," ''Charlie's Angels," ''The Golden Girls," ''Home Improvement" and "Nash Bridges."

Her name was Ann Marvak when she was born Sept. 16, 1930, in Ossining, N.Y.

By age 5 she was working as a model, and by 11 she was appearing on daytime radio serials, winning the nickname the Little Queen of Soap Operas. She also had some small roles on Broadway.

After her first MGM contract, during which she attended studio school with Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Powell and Natalie Wood, she returned to New York. There, she took part in television's Golden Age, acting in such acclaimed dramatic series as "Studio One" and "U.S. Steel Hour" before returning to Hollywood.

Francis' early marriage to actor Bam Price ended in divorce.

In addition to Jane, Francis and her second husband, Robert Abeloff, had another daughter, Maggie, before divorcing. She also is survived by a grandson.

She was also one of the most stunningly gorgeous women ever to grace a screen.

here's the 2010 thread: http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=21736&page=10

Nice work, Spex, surely snatching victory from Scriveyn's claws......

Thanks for that.

Not to start rumors or anything but does anyone know where Spex was when each of those celebs "died of natural causes"?


:D

[quote=monster;703027]RIP Pete Postlethwaite :(

QUOTE]

Seconded. Honoured his work today by watching The Town.

What? No one had Gerry Rafferty?

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/...erry.rafferty/

Ahhh, Baker Street. Nice song.

Or Dick King-Smith, 88.
The Reaper's getting in early this year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12198030

above the knee, so I reckon a full point there opening the batting.....

So, she's got one foot (plus some) in the grave already?

Is it too late to get in? I always suck at this game, but I feel like Aretha Franklin and Michael Douglas are solid bets this year.

Sean Connery
John Madden
Betty White
Meatloaf
Regis
Wesley Snipes
Nancy Sinatra
Jacki Chan


i hope i get 0 points

No not too late, cf, but you can't pick people who already died or lost limbs. Well I guess you can pick her, buy you get one less point 'cause the leg's already gone, I reckon :lol: Hell, I don't care, the more the merrier :D

Betty White's going to keep on forever I reckon. Unless someone shoots her. /palinmoment

@ pete, funny, but what's the betting it's being pickled and will eventually find it's way onto ebay or the morbid nasty equivalent?

Julian Assange
Steve Jobs
Zsa Zsa

Yeah, prolly.

In one of Asimov's Hugo Winner books, he tells this story. Unfortunately I don't remember the SF author's name.

Some fan to author: Your stories can be depressing. Are you like that in real life?

SF author: On the contrary. I have the heart of a little boy...



...in a jar of formaldehyde on my desk.

I remember that as being Robert Bloch, who wrote Psycho.

Sounds right. Thank you.

I just came back to check if I had Mandela (hospitalized) and noticed that I said this year the score is 111-age, so Sundae must've got 2 or 3 points for the leg. Birthday next week, though.....

adding
Sun Myung Moon
Elliot Reed
Ravi Shankar
Maureen O'hara
Carole Channing
Abe Vigoda
Farley Mowat

Stephen King used that line too....

very cool.

this is ironic.... heres the same thread at Bastard Factory.

http://bastardfactory.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=39

people dying seems to be entertaining.

like rain on your wedding day.

Haggis.

FTW haggis. What's even more ironic is that they've got all the same dead people on their list!

Or not-yet-dead people in our case..... We're like a community kiss-of-life service over here......

The DeathList has been keeping Clive Dunn alive for fifteen years now.

Wow, the DeathList is like shooting fish in a barrel. If I don't re-do my list then Mr. Nutkin may have to make an appearance with his own list.

yebbut the older they are, they fewer points they earn you

Just noticed they have Diana Wynne Jones on there.
She is probably my favourite all time author.
As she's only 77 I can only assume she is ill (ETA cancer)

Perhaps now is the time to finally send an author a letter about how much their books have meant to me...

Oh no! Not 'Blonde Doctor'!
J.D. will be devastated...

No, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Sorry, should be Reid

Ronnie Biggs and liz Taylor both admitted to hospital today......

I guess I can't add old Hosni to my list?