The Off Topic 2010 Celebrity Dead Pool

[ColdWizard]

"*Cough* *Cough* I don't feel well"
"Ok then, out you go"

[embalmer42]

....and because I forgot......






* Heavy Sigh *

[self biased]

Ronnie James Dio

http://www.ronniejamesdio.com/

[SlowwHand]

Stomach cancer. RIP.

[Guynemer]

Bad way to go.

[OzzyKP]

\m/

[Lord Avalon]

Sing me a song, you're a singer



You've got to bleed for the dancer.

RIP

[onodera]

RIP Dio

[Wezil]

Hardly a celeb but it bookends an earlier death:

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The widower of actress Brittany Murphy was found dead at his California home just five months after his wife died.

British screenwriter Simon Monjack was found dead Sunday night in Hollywood, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office.

Monjack, 39, was pronounced dead after the Los Angeles Fire Department was called there for a medical emergency, according to police.

His cause of death was not immediately known.

Murphy, 32, died in December from a combination of pneumonia, an iron deficiency and multiple drug intoxication, a coroner said. The drugs involved were legal and used to treat a respiratory infection, according to an autopsy.

The often bubbly, free-spirited actress appeared in films such as "Clueless," "8 Mile," "Don't Say a Word" and "Girl, Interrupted."

She also lent her voice to animated works, including the movie "Happy Feet" -- in which she also sang -- and a regular role on the animated TV series "King of the Hill."

The couple had no children.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/24/brittany.murphy.husband.dead/index.html?hpt=C1

[embalmer42]

Slipknot is now one mask short....


CNN) -- Paul Gray, the bassist for the Grammy-winning metal band Slipknot, was found dead Monday morning in his Des Moines, Iowa, hotel room, according to police. He was 38.

Gray's body was found by staff members at the TownePlace Suites, said Sgt. Dave Disney of the Urbandale Police Department.

An autopsy, including toxicology tests, will be performed Tuesday, Disney said.

Gray was arrested in Iowa in 2003 on drug possession charges when police found small amounts of marijuana, two syringes and a substance that field-tested positive for cocaine after he was involved in a wreck with another motorist.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/24/obit.slipknot.bassist/index.html?hpt=T2

* Sigh *

[self biased]

they were a terrible band.

[Wezil]

and bad drivers.

[SlowwHand]

He was driving in his hotel room? He WAS a bad driver, or very good. I guess it depends on the point of view.

[Wezil]

Well, it doesn't say he was in his hotel room at the time but it does say he was "involved in a wreck with another motorist". I leave speculation about where this happened to you.

[SlowwHand]

OK, it took him 7 years to die from the wreck. OK, I get it. I was thinking they were unrelated incidents.