The Off Topic 2008 Celebrity Dead Pool

[SlowwHand]

Abe "RIP" Vigoda.

[SlowwHand]

Legendary actor Paul Newman dies at age 83

09:16 AM CDT on Saturday, September 27, 2008


Associated Press


Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money," has died. He was 83.


Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends.


In May, Newman he had dropped plans to direct a fall production of "Of Mice and Men," citing unspecified health issues.


He got his start in theater and on television during the 1950s, and went on to become one of the world's most enduring and popular film stars, a legend held in awe by his peers. He was nominated for Oscars 10 times, winning one regular award and two honorary ones, and had major roles in more than 50 motion pictures, including "Exodus," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Verdict," "The Sting" and "Absence of Malice."


Newman worked with some of the greatest directors of the past half century, from Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers. His co-stars included Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and, most famously, Robert Redford, his sidekick in "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sting."


He sometimes teamed with his wife and fellow Oscar winner, Joanne Woodward, with whom he had one of Hollywood's rare long-term marriages. "I have steak at home, why go out for hamburger?" Newman told Playboy magazine when asked if he was tempted to stray. They wed in 1958, around the same time they both appeared in "The Long Hot Summer," and Newman directed her in several films, including "Rachel, Rachel" and "The Glass Menagerie."

[Ming]

RIP

I wonder if anybody on my list is going to die this year.

[SlowwHand]

I wish I'd put Newman on my list. It would have bought him some time.

[embalmer42]

Originally posted by Ming
RIP

I wonder if anybody on my list is going to die this year.

What's worse? Not having anybody on your list die or being in last place among those who have had people die?

[Wezil]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I wish I'd put Newman on my list. It would have bought him some time.

I didn't know he was sick.

Newman was a good one.

RIP

[Wezil]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Well, I've only got 3 -- and none in several months -- and I'm in the lead. So it really doesn't take much luck for a dramatic turnaround.

We can't possibly catch up without some participation from our celebrities. What a bunch of slackers.

[Ming]

Originally posted by Wezil
participation from our celebrities.

[Wezil]

Honourable mention to Nancy Reagan.

She fell and fractured her hip last week but is now recovering at home. She's slowed up a bit but not bad for a woman pushing 90.

[-Jrabbit]

Author of mystery novels Tony Hillerman dies at 83... RIP.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/entertainment/20081027/Obit.Tony.Hillerman/

[Wezil]

I haven't read his stuff but he has an interesting bio.

If one of our players had been good enough to pick him he could still be alive.

[SlowwHand]

I'm so sorry. Had I known of him, I would have helped him out.

[-Jrabbit]

Rough time for old authors. Pulitzer-winning writer and Chicago legend Studs Terkel dies at 96.

RIP.

I believe that's a "unique" hit for Vicious Rabbits.

[Guynemer]

I was justthisclose to putting him on my list.

Thank God I didn't. My perfect streak remains intact.

[-Jrabbit]

Originally posted by Guynemer
I was justthisclose to putting him on my list.

Thx!