The Off Topic 2010 Celebrity Dead Pool

[embalmer42]

This is a pisser.

Tom Mankiewicz has shuffled off this mortal coil.

RIP

http://www.cinematical.com/2010/08/02/bond-screenwriter-tom-mankiewicz-passes-away-at-age-68/

[SlowwHand]

I didn't know who he was until I read the link. He did a lot of stuff.
RIP

[SlowwHand]

NEW YORK — Mitch Miller, the goateed orchestra leader who asked Americans to "Sing Along With Mitch" on television and records and produced hits for Tony Bennett, Patti Page and other performers, has died at age 99.

His daughter, Margaret Miller Reuther, said Monday that Miller died Saturday in Lenox Hill Hospital after a short illness.

Anyone?

[embalmer42]

RIP

He wasn't on my list so he wasn't protected.

My bad.

[Ming]

I thought Miller died years ago... RIP

[-Jrabbit]

Same here. Watched "Sing Along with Mitch" every week with my parents.

RIP.

[embalmer42]

Dan Resin is now playing golf in the big course in the sky.


RIP

http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2010/08/02/14899446-wenn-story.html

[Wezil]

*bump*

I've just recruited next year's replacement for Ronnie Biggs.

They're a player I just hope they hang on till January.

[Wezil]

huge list nice work done

You guys aren't sucking me in again.

Ozzy will laugh at me.

[-Jrabbit]

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Oscar-winner Patricia Neal dies at age 84

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Actress Patricia Neal, who won an Oscar in 1964 for "Hud" and later fought back from crippling strokes, has died at age 84.

[SlowwHand]

RIP
It sounds like was a relief.

[Wezil]

(CNN) -- The National Transportation Safety Board has assembled a team to probe the Monday night plane crash in Alaska.

The agency said on Tuesday the plane crashed near Dillingham and cited reports that say five of the nine people on board died. Earlier, the Alaska Air National Guard statement said there were some apparent survivors and "potential fatalities."

Some reports are saying Ted Stevens was on the plane.

[-Jrabbit]

Confirmed. He's dead. Age 86.

[Grandpa Troll]

Hill titan Dan Rostenkowski dead at 82

Former Illinois congressman Dan Rostenkowski, who rose through the ranks of Chicago's rough-and-tumble political scene to become one of the most powerful men on Capitol Hill, has died, according to the office of Chicago Alderman Richard Mell.

He was 82. He died in Wisconsin after an extended illness, Mell's office said.

Rostenkowski first entered Congress in 1959, during the second half of the Eisenhower administration. Known for his booming voice and reputation as a power broker, he became chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee in 1981.

During his tenure as chairman, the powerful Democrat played a key role in passing major reforms of both Social Security and the tax code, among other things.

In 1988, Rostenkowski helped pass a controversial expansion of Medicare designed to protect seniors against catastrophic medical expenses. Senior citizens became livid over the higher monthly premiums and surtax tied to the bill. The measure was repealed a year later.

Rostenkowski was defeated in the Republican landslide of 1994, however, after becoming mired in scandal. Among other things, prosecutors alleged he used public funds for personal matters and to pay employees who did little actual work.

Rostenkowski pleaded guilty to corruption charges in April 1996, and ultimately served over a year in federal prison. He was pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2000.

"Dan Rostenkowski devoted his life to his community, Chicago and the state," Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan said Wednesday.

"His efforts on behalf of the regular people who needed a friend to wade through the tangle of government are unparalleled."

[SlowwHand]

Publicist says Zsa Zsa Gabor 'unresponsive'
Husband calls 911 two weeks after actress left hospital to spend final days at home

updated 8/31/2010 2:24:16 PM ET

LOS ANGELES — Zsa Zsa Gabor returned to the hospital on Tuesday for being "not responsive," her spokesman said, following a series of health-related setbacks since breaking her hip in July.

John Blanchette, a spokesman for the 93-year-old actress, told Reuters that Gabor's husband, Frederick Prinz von Anhalt, called emergency personnel to take his wife to the University of California Los Angeles because she was "not responsive" and "doctors want her in right away."

No further details were immediately available.

I don't think she's teasing this time.