Apolyton Celebrity Dead Pool 2009

[OzzyKP]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_%28mythology%29

[SlowwHand]

GO SLOWW!

[Wezil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_%28mythology%29

Very nice.

That should be worth a "hit" or two.

[SlowwHand]

I'm about to take a hit, as a matter of fact.

[SlowwHand]

Time out!

We have one that very conceivably could be a 2010 contender.

Fitness guru Jack LaLanne undergoes surgery in LA

Posted on December 15, 2009 at 11:03 PM


LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fitness pioneer Jack LaLanne is recovering from heart valve surgery at his home in Morro Bay.

LaLanne's publicist, Ariel Hankin, said Tuesday that the 95-year-old underwent the procedure at a Los Angeles hospital on Dec. 8.

Hankin says that before the surgery LaLanne told his family that dying would wreck his image.

The weightlifting guru is doing fine and expected to make a full recovery.

He became famous for his physique and for outrageous stunts, such as towing boats while swimming across Long Beach Harbor handcuffed. He became a household name by hosting an exercise show on television from 1951-85.

[OzzyKP]

Hankin says that before the surgery LaLanne told his family that dying would wreck his image.

Jack LaLanne

[Guynemer]

Shamelessly stolen from another website:

Best headline regarding Oral Roberts' demise?

"Jesus prepares to receive Oral"

[Wezil]

Shamelessly stolen from another website:

Best headline regarding Oral Roberts' demise?

"Jesus prepares to receive Oral"

The Lee Atwater Invitational has something similar:

"Looks like Jesus is getting himself some Oral."

[SlowwHand]

Roy Disney, nephew of Walt Disney, dies at 79.(AP) - 55 minutes ago

Walt's nephew. Goody. I was running out of things to make me feel old.

[Winston]

I think he has three nephews.

[OzzyKP]

I doubt she is on anyone's list, but Brittany Murphy died somehow.

[Lord Avalon]

RIP.

I saw cardiac arrest reported. She was only 32. I can't help but wonder if drugs contributed.

[Guynemer]

Plus/minus an eating disorder.

[Wezil]

SALT LAKE CITY — The man who inspired the title character in the Oscar-winning movie “Rain Man” has died.

Kim Peek was 58. His father, Fran, says Peek had a major heart attack Saturday morning and was pronounced dead at a hospital in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray.

Peek was a savant with a remarkable memory and inspired writer Barry Morrow when he wrote “Rain Man,” the 1988 movie that won four Academy Awards.

Fran Peek said his son met Morrow at a convention in the early 1980s and the writer was taken with Peek’s knack for retaining everything he heard. Morrow wrote the script, and the movie went on to win Oscars for best film and best actor for Dustin Hoffman, whose repetitive rants about being an excellent driver and the “People’s Court” about to start were a hit with moviegoers.

Although the character was technically fictional, Fran Peek said his son was every bit as amazing as Hoffman’s portrayal of him. And Kim’s true character showed when he toured the world, helping dispel misconceptions about mental disabilities.

“It was just unbelievable, all the things that he knew,” Fran Peek said Monday. “He travelled 5,500 miles short 3 million air miles and talked to nearly 60 million people — half have been students.”

In his later years, Peek was classified as a “mega-savant” who was a genius in about 15 different subjects, from history and literature and geography to numbers, sports, music and dates. But his motor skills were limited; he couldn’t perform some simple tasks like dressing himself.

NASA scientists had been studying Peek, hoping that technology used to study the effects of space travel on the brain would help explain his mental capabilities.

Fran Peek says the funeral will be next Tuesday in Taylorsville. Details were pending.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/12/21/12234341-ap.html

He's no more. Yeah, he's gone.

[SlowwHand]

People are strange. RIP