The Off Topic 2010 Celebrity Dead Pool

[self biased]

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/comedian-robert-schimmel-dies-after-car-accident/46691

PHOENIX - Standup comic Robert Schimmel, a frequent guest on Howard Stern's radio show, has died after suffering serious injuries in a car accident. He was 60.

Schimmel's spokesman, Howard Bragman, said Schimmel died Friday evening in a Phoenix hospital.

Schimmel was a passenger Aug. 26 in a car driven by his 19-year-old daughter Aliyah. Bragman said Aliyah Schimmel swerved to avoid another car and the vehicle she was driving rolled to the side of the freeway. Bragman said she is hospitalized in stable condition.

Robert Schimmel lived in Scottsdale. The 60-year-old comedian has been a frequent guest on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and on Howard Stern's radio show. His 2008 memoir, "Cancer on $5 a Day," chronicles his battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Schimmel starred in a Fox sitcom that was picked up in 2000 but had to be canceled after he learned he had cancer and needed to begin chemotherapy immediately, according to his website.

The site says Schimmel more recently had a Showtime special called "Life Since Then" and was integrating his life's experiences with comedy to not only make audiences laugh but raise cancer awareness and hope.

The site also says the comedian learned a lot about "life, attitude and laughter" following his cancer fight and the loss of a child. He also had two failed marriages.

[Wezil]

It's been a quiet summer for the Poly Dead Pool with no updates required.

I'll update next beginning of October. Hopefully there will be something to report by then.

Hopefully we can lose this white text on black background by then.

[-Jrabbit]

Um, there's been a black text/white BG skin available for awhile now, Wezil.

[SlowwHand]

But it's so bright that it will blind you.

[SlowwHand]

Holy crap!

Giant hay bale kills former ELO cellist


– Mon Sep 6, 9:04 am ET

LONDON (Reuters) – A giant bale of hay has killed a founding member of the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) band after it tumbled down a hill and crashed into his van.

Cellist Mike Edwards, 62, died after the 600 kg (1,323 lb) bale rolled down a steep field in Devon, southern England, smashed through a hedge and careened onto the road.

He died instantly in the freak accident on Friday afternoon.

Police said they used photographs and YouTube footage to identify Edwards and are investigating whether the bale may have fallen from a tractor working on farmland near the road.

Edwards, who played with the band between 1972 and 1975, is believed to have swerved into another vehicle as the bale crushed his cab.

(Reporting by Paul Casciato; Editing by Steve Addison)

[-Jrabbit]

I didn't see that coming (much like Edwards...).

[Guynemer]

What a bizarre way to go.

[Grandpa Troll]

Im thinking MythBusters needs to be contacted to see if this could be a future Oliver Stone movie

[Wezil]

*cough*

This is getting embarrassing. 2.5 months since the last awarding of points.

[Tuberski]

Comedian Greg Giraldo has died.

He was hospitalized in New Brunswick, NJ after he overdosed on prescription pills last weekend. According to TMZ, the overdose was not a suicide attempt.

According to the source, "Greg passed away today at the hospital in New Brunswick as a result of an accidental overdose. His family was by his side."

Giraldo was widely known for his many hilarious, gut-bustingly funny celebrity roast appearances. He was also a judge on "Last Comic Standing."

Prayers for Greg and condolences to his family. And because Greg would have wanted to leave you all laughing, watch this video of one of his stand-up performances.

ACK!

[-Jrabbit]

RIP Tony Curtis...

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Thu, September 30, 2010 -- 6:31 AM ET
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Tony Curtis, Hollywood Icon, Dies at 85, The A.P. Reports

Tony Curtis, a classically handsome movie star who earned an
Oscar nomination as an escaped convict in Stanley Kramer's
1958 movie "The Defiant Ones," but whose public preferred him
in comic roles in films like "Some Like It Hot" (1959) and
"The Great Race" (1965), died Wednesday of a cardiac arrest
in his Las Vegas area home. He was 85.

His death was confirmed by the Clark County coroner, The
Associated Press reported.

As a performer, Mr. Curtis drew first and foremost on his
startlingly good looks. With his dark, curly hair, worn in a
sculptural style later imitated by Elvis Presley, and plucked
eyebrows framing pale blue eyes and wide, full lips, Mr.
Curtis embodied a new kind of feminized male beauty that came
into vogue in the early 1950s.

Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com?emc=na

[SlowwHand]

Aw, damn. RIP.

[-Jrabbit]

Unique pick for Winston.

[Wezil]

Another death for the next update, Sir Norman Wisdom.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11473214

During a career which spanned seven decades, Sir Norman Wisdom went beyond clowning and slapstick to star in 19 movies.

His knighthood, which came in 2000, put the diminutive comic on a footing with the likes of Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness.

[Solomwi]

Woohoo, my #1 pick!