The Off Topic 2008 Celebrity Dead Pool

[Tuberski]

Eartha Kitt

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081225/ap_en_ot/obit_eartha_kitt

ACK!

[Tuberski]

Shouldn't Slowwy's team name be "The Dallas Corpse Tossers"?

ACK!

[-Jrabbit]

LordShiva, Ming, Omni Rex Draconis and snoopy369 all score with Harold Pinter.

(Ming, please update your 2009 list.)

[Wezil]

Harold Pinter was chosen by four players: LordShiva (3), Ming (4), Snoopy369 (13), and Omni Rex Draconis (18)

Mr. Pinter was 78.

LordShiva -> 171-3+22 = 190 points
Ming - > 171 - 4 + 22 = 189 points
snoopy369 - > 171 - 13 + 22 = 180 points
Omni Rex Draconis -> 171 - 18 + 22 = 175 points



Leader Board

-Jrabbit 941
Omni Rex Draconis 786
LordShiva 537
LotC 386
snoopy369 351
Ming 189
SlowwHand 183
wezil 175
Drogue 171
OzzyKP 168
embalmer42 164

[embalmer42]

It appears I am too good for everybody here. No matter how many people try to wrestle it away from me, I still manage to retain my death grip on last place for those who have received points.

[Wezil]

11 of 15 players have scored points now.

[Wezil]

"Johnny Cakes" is dead.

Not anybody's pick but posted for the interest of Sopranos fans.

NEW YORK - A 47-year-old actor who starred as the gay firefighter-lover of a closeted mobster on the hit show "The Sopranos" was found dead of an apparent suicide after family members were unable to reach him.

John Costelloe, who played the hunky short-order cook Johnny Cakes on four episodes of the HBO show, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside his Brooklyn home on Dec. 18, said police spokesman Lt. John Grimpel.

Costelloe gained a measure of fame in 2006 when he was cast as Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski opposite his longtime friend, actor Joseph Gannascoli, who played gay mob capo Vito Spatafore.

http://celebedge.sympatico.msn.ca/ContentPostingCP3column?newsitemid=69122033&feedname=CP-ENTERTAINMENT&show=False&number=8&showbyline=False&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=False

[Ming]

Originally posted by -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/th...r.html?_r=1&hp

No wonder why I missed this... he died on Christmas. I've been very busy this holiday season.

[-Jrabbit]

I believe Mr. Pinter died on Christmas Day, which makes those who chose him eligible for:

d) Party Pooper Award: +25 points for any celebrity rude enough to die on their birthday or Christmas Day.

Looking forward to seeing the final scoring...

[Wezil]

No bonus points for Pinter. He died on the 24th.

...died on Wednesday...

The final bonus points and winner determination will be on the 7th of January. Stay tuned.

[Wezil]

That "died on Wednesday" bit was quoted from your link. Apparently the quote feature has changed.

[Adagio]

I believe Mr. Pinter died on Christmas Day, which makes those who chose him eligible for:

No bonus points for Pinter. He died on the 24th.

...died on Wednesday...

Christmas Day is December 24th, so I'd say that makes those who chose him eligble for the bonus. The days after the 24th are just "cool off" days after a hard Christmas

[-Jrabbit]

Yep, it happened on Christmas Eve. Sorry about that.

[Asmodean]

This post by LotC in April turned out to be eeerily correct!!

At the rate things are going, I'll be happy if one of my picks pays off. Ok, maybe happy isn't the most appropriate word but it's the first one that came to mind.

My second reserve, the US economy, is coming along well. I'm thinking a corpse will show up by the end of Q3 2008

Asmodean

[Wezil]

Get the tuxedos ready. Final awards tomorrow.