2014 Off Topic Celebrity Dead Pool - Now under New Management

[Sava]

Google Search Results

Kim Kardashian? 261,000,000 results.

Earl Morrall? 742,000

Though, it's hard to draw a line with this. Are all professional athletes celebrities by default?

[regexcellent]

Who died? There's tons of posts in here about people who aren't on anyone's list.

Mickey Rooney has been added to the death list.

[Uncle Sparky]

The way it is currently set up, I'd have to open each of the individual lists and compare to the ones who died. If you do an alphabetical listing, as in previous years, it would be easy to know which are hits and which aren't.

Where is the list that Mickey Rooney has been added to? You have 4 'place holders' after the OP that can be used.

[regexcellent]

It's in the database. Mickey Rooney now shows up as a hit for anyone who had him in their list.

Players are responsible for reporting their own hits by the way. So check your list once every four weeks or so and post in this thread. At the end of the year I'll do a big roundup to catch anything anyone missed.

[-Jrabbit]

I agree that those placeholder spots could be put to good use. A master alpha list isn't that tough to do - especially if you have a database or Excel file set up.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I had a hit with Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

[molly bloom]

Margo MacDonald, influential member of the Scottish National Party, writer and broadcaster

Richard Broke, film/t.v. producer of controversial works such as 'The Monocled Mutineer' and 'Tumbledown'

Margaret Spufford, historian of Elizabethan and Jacobean England

Anna Reynolds, mezzo-sporano opera singer

Josep Maria Subirachs, Catalan sculptor

John Shirley-Quirk, bass-baritone singer

Duncan Dallas, founder of Cafe Scientifique

http://www.cafescientifique.org/

Jacques Le Goff, historian of the Middle Ages

Julian Wilson, B.B.C. racing presenter

William Brayne, television producer of shows such as 'The Professionals' & 'Lovejoy'

A N R Robinson, Prime Minister and President of Trinidad & Tobago, influential in the setting up of the International Criminal Court

[ColdWizard]

Dr. Jack Ramsay, Hall of Fame NBA coach.

[-Jrabbit]

That's a shame. Brilliant strategist and tactician with encyclopedic knowledge of the game.

RIP.

[molly bloom]

Bob Hoskins, film, television and stage actor.

Well-known for starring in 'Mona Lisa', 'The Long Good Friday' , 'Last Orders' and 'Pennies From Heaven'. Was a memorable Bosola in 'The Duchess of Malfi' with Helen Mirren at London's Roundhouse.

he actor Bob Hoskins has died aged 71. His agent said that he died on Tuesday, surrounded by his family, suffering from pneumonia. He retired in 2012 following a diagnosis with Parkinson's disease in the autumn of 2011.

One of Britain's best-loved actors, Hoskins was known for his gruff bonhomie, and career that spanned more than 30 years. He first found fame on the small screen in Dennis Potter's Pennies from Heaven, and then in cinemas as a London gangster-turned-businessman in The Long Good Friday (1980).

Hoskins had leading roles in Brazil (1985), Mona Lisa (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988), Mermaids (1990) and Super Mario Bros (1993) – which he described in a 2007 Guardian interview as "the worst thing I ever did".

Many will also remember him fondly for a series of adverts shot in the late 80s and early 90s for BT with his catchphrase, "It's good to talk". He teamed up with Shane Meadows for Twenty Four Seven (1997) and A Room for Romeo Brass (2000), and winning much acclaim for his role in Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey (1999).

Speaking to the Guardian, Meadows said:


"Bob Hoskins is the most generous actor I have worked with. He not only took a huge chance on me when he agreed to star in my first feature film, he taught me so much about the business, how to survive it and how to stay true to yourself. When we travelled to New York together back in the late 90's to promote Twenty Four Seven, the film company had put Bob in first class and me in with the chickens. Bob refused to go unless they upgraded me to first or downgraded him to economy. They upgraded me thank goodness but knowing he would have forgone the champers and flambé steak to sit in twerp class with me says it all really; he was a true gentleman."

In 2005 he starred alongside Judi Dench in Stephen Frears's Mrs Henderson Presents. Dench told the Guardian: "I'm so very sorry to hear this news, and am thinking of his family at this sad time."

The actor Kate Hardie, who worked with Hoskins on Mona Lisa, took to Twitter to pay her respects.

Most recently, Hoskins was seen in Made in Dagenham, Snow White and the Huntsman and Outside Bet.

Eddie Marsan, who starred along side Hoskins in that film, also took to Twitter.

On the set of that film, about the Wapping newspaper dispute in the mid-80s, Hoskins told the Guardian why he kept on working: "There's always someone who rings up and says: 'Now Bob, before you go, there's a cracking little swansong for you'."

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/30/bob-hoskins-dies

http://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2014/apr/30/bob-hoskins-a-career-in-pictures

[-Jrabbit]

A truly fine actor. RIP.

[Uncle Sparky]

http://boingboing.net/2014/04/30/rip...-comics-a.html

RIP Al Feldstein - EC Comics and MAD editor

...Feldstein began working at EC comics, publishers of Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror, and The Haunt of Fear in 1948. Soon he became editor of most of EC's titles. He typically wrote and illustrated a story in each title and drew many of the covers, a mind-bogglingly prolific output. Eventually he stopped doing the art for stories and stuck with editing, writing, and cover illustrations. According to Wikipedia, from "late 1950 through 1953, he edited and wrote stories for seven EC titles." I've always loved his signature, which features elongated horizontals on the F and the T, and an extended vertical on the N.

After MAD creator Harvey Kurtzman got in a fight with publisher William Gaines over ownership of the comic and left EC in 1956, Gaines put Feldstein in charge of the humor magazine, where he remained as editor until 1985...

[Uncle Sparky]

Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Dies at 95

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...ad-star-700983

Efrem Zimbalist Jr., the suave leading man who starred on ABC for 15 straight seasons on 77 Sunset Strip and then The F.B.I., died Friday at his ranch in Solvang, Calif., his children announced. He was 95.

Zimbalist was a household name from 1958 through 1974 for his performances as dapper private eye Stuart Bailey on Friday night staple 77 Sunset Strip, which lasted six seasons, and as Inspector Lewis Erskine on The F.B.I., which ran for nine.

A close friend of then-FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, Zimbalist ended many Quinn Martin productions on Sunday nights with a description of a fugitive wanted by the feds, exhorting viewers to be on the lookout. One of the more prominent names from this segment was James Earl Ray, assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Unique pick for me.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

He was alive until yesterday? Who knew?

[Uncle Sparky]

He was alive until yesterday? Who knew?

I did. He's been on my radar for a couple of years.