The 2011 Off Topic Celebrity Dead Pool

[Zoetstofzoetje]

if I could, I'd nominate Steve Jobs for 2011

[Wezil]

if I could, I'd nominate Steve Jobs for 2011

Okay, let me explain how this works....

You make your nominations in December (as at least a couple of our players did in picking Jobs), not when a celeb suddenly blows up in the headlines. It's a little tougher this way.

You are predicting the winner of last week's horse race.

[ColdWizard]

Timing is everything.

Two of my Jacks went but I didn't get an updated list submitted in time.

[SlowwHand]

Doubtful that anyone had him, but R.I.P

Bluesman David 'Honeyboy' Edwards dead at 96
Aug. 30, 2011, 4:56 AM EST


CHICAGO (AP) -- Grammy-winning Blues musician David "Honeyboy" Edwards, believed to be the oldest surviving Delta bluesman and whose roots stretched back to blues legend Robert Johnson, died early Monday in his Chicago home, his manager said. He was 96.

Edwards had a weak heart and his health was in serious decline in May, when the guitarist had to cancel concerts scheduled through November, said his longtime manager, Michael Frank of Earwig Music Company.

Born in 1915 in Shaw, Miss., Edwards learned the guitar growing up and started playing professionally at age 17 in Memphis, Tenn.

He came to Chicago in the 1940s and played on Maxwell Street, small clubs and street corners. By the 1950s, Edwards had played with almost every bluesman of note — including Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Charlie Patton and Muddy Waters. Among Edwards' hit songs were "Long Tall Woman Blues," "Gamblin' Man" and "Just Like Jesse James."

Edwards played his last shows in April at the Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, Miss., Frank said.

"Blues ain't never going anywhere," Edwards told The Associated Press in 2008. "It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere. You play a lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock 'n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere."

[-Jrabbit]

I got to see him a couple times.
RIP, Honeyboy.

Thanks for posting, Slowwy.

[Tuberski]

Cliff Robertson, Uncle Ben in Spiderman, Dead at 88:

http://www.wtop.com/?sid=2538509&nid=541

[Wezil]

I was hoping he'd make it.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—Andy Whitfield, who played the title role in the hit cable series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, has died at age 39, according to representatives and family.

Whitfield died Sunday in Sydney, Australia, 18 months after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, manager Sam Maydew told the Associated Press.

http://www.toronto.com/article/698108?bn=1

Spartacus was 39 and a unique pick for Robert Plomp (14).

(171 - 14) + (100 - 39) +25

=243 points

Robert Plomp takes the lead in points.

[EPW]

ahhhhhh

He was awesome.

[Wezil]

Dolores Hope, who gave up her singing career to spend 69 years at the side of her husband, Bob Hope, pursuing philanthropy and projecting with him the image of an enduring Hollywood marriage, died on Monday in the home she and her husband bought in 1940 in the Toluca Lake section of Los Angeles. She was 102.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/arts/music/dolores-hope-bob-hopes-widow-dies-at-102.html

Dolores was a pick for two players - -Jrabbit (3) and DaShi (12)

-Jrabbit receives 166 points and moves back into first place on the leader board.

DaShi receives 157 points and ties a couple all-time records.

Congrats to both and condolences to the Hope family.

[Robert]

Cliff Robertson, Uncle Ben in Spiderman, Dead at 88:

http://www.wtop.com/?sid=2538509&nid=541

I thought he already died in that movie!?

[Robert]

I was hoping he'd make it.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—Andy Whitfield, who played the title role in the hit cable series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, has died at age 39, according to representatives and family.

Whitfield died Sunday in Sydney, Australia, 18 months after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, manager Sam Maydew told the Associated Press.

http://www.toronto.com/article/698108?bn=1

Spartacus was 39 and a unique pick for Robert Plomp (14).

(171 - 14) + (100 - 39) +25

=243 points

Robert Plomp takes the lead in points.

w00t!
I was so busy changing diapers that I totally had missed that I'm in the lead again 8)
I'm so proud, this is my best achievements ever in life! how am I gonna tell my mother. *wheeps*

[Robert]

Dolores Hope, who gave up her singing career to spend 69 years at the side of her husband, Bob Hope, pursuing philanthropy and projecting with him the image of an enduring Hollywood marriage, died on Monday in the home she and her husband bought in 1940 in the Toluca Lake section of Los Angeles. She was 102.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/arts/music/dolores-hope-bob-hopes-widow-dies-at-102.html

Dolores was a pick for two players - -Jrabbit (3) and DaShi (12)

-Jrabbit receives 166 points and moves back into first place on the leader board.

DaShi receives 157 points and ties a couple all-time records.

Congrats to both and condolences to the Hope family.

To myself: "Argh.... always first read all posts before you respond, Robert."
Glad that I didn't tell my mother yet.

[SlowwHand]

Ms. Gabor is beginning to piss me off.

[Wezil]

Not a pick of any of our players but good news nonetheless...

One of Canada’s most notorious criminals, serial killer Clifford Olson, has cancer and only days to live, corrections officials told the family of one of his victims.

Sharon Rosenfeldt, whose son Daryn was one of Mr. Olson’s 11 victims, said she got a call Tuesday from Don Head, Commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada, who wanted to inform her before the news leaked.

He told her that Mr. Olson has a cancer that has metastasized and would be transferred to a local hospital from the ultra-secure Special Handling Unit of the federal penitentiary in St. Anne des Plaines, Que.

Good riddance.

[-Jrabbit]

w00t!
I was so busy changing diapers that I totally had missed that I'm in the lead again 8)
I'm so proud, this is my best achievements ever in life! how am I gonna tell my mother. *wheeps*

In recognition of the distraction that comes with fatherhood, I am donating to Mr. Plomp the 8 days of celebrating the lead that he missed due to being busy and/or oblivious.