The Off Topic 2008 Celebrity Dead Pool

[snoopy369]

Barring ORD going on some sort of weird actual killing spree, I think we have a winner here ...

[Wezil]

ORD?

embalmer42 is the one I'd worry about.

[Wezil]

You didn't see his entry PM. It was some scary stuff.

[snoopy369]

Well, he is only ensuring he has work after all.

[Wezil]

Deep Throat is dead.

The man who revealed himself as "Deep Throat" 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon has died.

W. Mark Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa, Calif., after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months, said family friend John D. O'Connor, who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt's secret. Felt was 95.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/12/19/felt-dies.html

[Wezil]

W. Mark Felt will tell no more secrets.

Omni Rex Draconis (7) was the only player to choose Mr. Felt.

Mr. Felt was 95.

Omni Rex Draconis scores the 25 point Unique Pick Award.

Omni Rex Draconis -> 164 + 5 + 25 = 194 points



Leader Board

-Jrabbit 941
Omni Rex Draconis 611
LotC 386
LordShiva 347
SlowwHand 183
wezil 175
Drogue 171
snoopy369 171
OzzyKP 168
embalmer42 164


Looks like snoopy's outside prediction has started. ORD is making his move.

[-Jrabbit]

Damn, thought I had him, too.

[Wezil]

I actually submitted my Derby Team last night. Felt was one of my choices.

[Ming]

Thanks for not showing me at the bottome with zero points

At least next years list will be REALLY easy.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Ming
Thanks for not showing me at the bottome with zero points

I'm saving that for the final awards. Once you get the Empty Casket Award you and the others currently without points will be exposed.

[SlowwHand]

"Mockingbird" director Robert Mulligan dead at 83
By Duane Byrge – Mon Dec 22, 8:43 am ET


LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Robert Mulligan, who received an Oscar nomination for directing "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Friday of heart disease at his Connecticut home. He was 83.

Known for his diffident nature and sensitivity toward players, Mulligan directed five different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Gregory Peck and Mary Badham in "Mockingbird," Natalie Wood ("Love with the Proper Stranger"), Ruth Gordon ("Inside Daisy Clover") and Ellen Burstyn ("Same Time, Next Year"). Peck won the Oscar for his lead role as attorney Atticus Finch in "Mockingbird."

[OzzyKP]

Rev. James Bevel died too apparently. Civil rights activist.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Damn, thought I had him, too.

He was one of Snoopy's reserve picks.

[-Jrabbit]

Sign-up thread for the 2009 contest has been posted...

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182745

[-Jrabbit]

The New York Times
Thursday, December 25, 2008 -- 9:30 AM ET
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Harold Pinter, Nobel Laureate, Dies at 78

Mr. Pinter was among the most influential British playwrights
of his generation and a voice of political protest.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/theater/26pinter.html?_r=1&hp