The 2011 Off Topic Celebrity Dead Pool

[Robert]

Great organization! Wezil

[SlowwHand]

He saves his energy for a year and channels it all into this one effort. It's all or nothing for Wezil.

[Guynemer]

Jeez, 2011 is only three days old, and already two of my picks are having major health issues.

Victory will be mine!



Also, Pete Postlewaite (sp?) died.

[Solomwi]

Kobayashi.

[Krill]

Yeah, the nation is now in mourning We lost a fabulous actor yesterday.

[MRT144]

What? The hot dog champ is dead?

[Wezil]

London, England (CNN) -- Singer Gerry Rafferty, famous for the 1970s hits "Baker Street" and "Stuck in the Middle With You," which was used in Quentin Tarantino's film "Reservoir Dogs," has died, his agent said Wednesday.

He was 63. A cause of death was not given.

[Grandpa Troll]

London, England (CNN) -- Singer Gerry Rafferty, famous for the 1970s hits "Baker Street" and "Stuck in the Middle With You," which was used in Quentin Tarantino's film "Reservoir Dogs," has died, his agent said Wednesday.

He was 63. A cause of death was not given.

R.I.P.

[Wezil]

Great organization! Wezil

I could do better if I had any computer skills to speak of. Charts and tables are beyond me.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

effort over skills

[Ming]

As always... GREAT JOB WEZIL.

Maybe this year, I will actually have somebody on my list croak.

[Wezil]

Maybe this year, I will actually have somebody on my list croak.

You had a hit...




...3 years ago.

[germanos]

Ted Striker

[Wezil]

Michael Douglas has beaten his cancer.

"I feel good, relieved," Douglas tells Matt Lauer in an interview scheduled to air on the Today show Tuesday. "The tumor is gone. But, you know, I have to check out on a monthly basis now to maintain."

Nevertheless, he's optimistic that he’s cancer-free after going through radiation and chemotherapy to treat a tumor on the base of his tongue.

"I think the odds are with the tumor gone," Douglas, 66, says, "and what I know about this particular type of cancer [is] that I've got it beat."

With the good news, Douglas says he'll continue to monitor his health and "take a couple of months of getting checked out. But it's been a wild six-month ride."

And as he recovers, the actor says his appetite is back and he's slowly gaining the weight he lost during his illness. "I lost about 32 lbs.," he says. "And I've put about 12 back. But, I mean, I got another 20, 25 to go."

Bad for our points but very good for Michael Douglas.

[SlowwHand]

Good news.