2014 Off Topic Celebrity Dead Pool - Now under New Management

[ColdWizard]

-Jrabbit and Embalmer are the leading candidates for the Empty Casket award with their last hits being in January and February respectively. Unless someone jinxes them ( ) and they end up not getting another hit, in which case it falls to me.

There is a three way tie for the Killing Spree award between me, Laz, and Sloww with 2. Each of our bids for 3 was interrupted by a different player; Sloww ( ), Uncle Sparky, and Robert Plomp respectively. My steak is still active, however.

This is what I have for hits, btw:

Jan 7 - Run Run Shaw - Jrabbit
Jan 11 - Ariel Sharon - Bugs ****ing Bunny
Jan 22 - Akkineni Nageswara Rao - ColdWizard
Jan 27 - Pete Seeger - Jrabbit
Feb 10 - Shirley Temple - Embalmer42, SlowwHand
Feb 12 - Sid Caesar - Uncle Sparky, SlowwHand
Mar 14 - Tony Benn - Robert Plomp
Apr 6 - Mickey Rooney - Hauldren Collider, Ming, SlowwHand
Apr 17 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Bugs ****ing Bunny
May 2 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr. - Uncle Sparky
May 25 - General Wojciech Jaruzelski - Bugs ****ing Bunny, Robert Plomp
Jun 24 - Eli Wallach - Bugs ****ing Bunny, EPW, Guynemer, Ming, SlowwHand, Tuberski, Uncle Sparky
Jun 27 - Bobby Womack - Perfection
Jul 7 - Alfredo Di Stéfano - Colon
Jul 28 - Sally Farmiloe - ColdWizard
Aug 12 - Lauren Bacall - SlowwHand
Aug 24 - Richard Attenborough - Bugs ****ing Bunny, ColdWizard
Aug 28 - John Anthony Walker Jr - ColdWizard

[Uncle Sparky]

I'll fill it out this weekend.

What is this 'weekend' you speak of?

[Uncle Sparky]

"Baby Doc" is Dead

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/20...ead_at_63.html

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI—Jean-Claude-Duvalier, the self-proclaimed “president for life” of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime in the 1970s and 1980s sparked a popular uprising that sent him into a 25-year exile, died Saturday of a heart attack, his lawyer said.

Reynold George said the former leader died at his home. He was 63.

Duvalier, looking somewhat frail, made a surprise return to Haiti in 2011, allowing victims of his regime to pursue legal claims against him and prompting some old allies to rally around him. Neither side gained much support, and the once-feared dictator known as “Baby Doc” spent his late years in relative obscurity in the leafy hills above the Haitian capital.

Duvalier was the son of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier, a medical doctor-turned-dictator who promoted “Noirisme,” a movement that sought to highlight Haiti’s African roots over its European ones while uniting the black majority against a mulatto elite in a country divided by class and colour.
...

[SlowwHand]

He still has a bill to pay.

[Uncle Sparky]

He still has a bill to pay.

Haitians came up with zombies - maybe they could still have Duvalier pay his debt to society?

[-Jrabbit]

60s pop star Paul Revere, 76, has made his last ride. RIP.

(CNN) -- Paul Revere, leader of the 1960s rock band Paul Revere and the Raiders, died Saturday at his home in Idaho, the band's website reported. He was 76.

Revere -- whose birth name was Paul Revere Dick, according to a biography on the Internet Movie Database -- was frontman for the band that often performed in three-cornered hats and other clothing harking back to the Ameican Revolution.

Revere was born in Nebraska and played in bands in Idaho and Oregon, according to a tribute on the band website written by Roger Hart, who managed the group in the early days. Hart said he took the band to Hollywood and signed them to a deal with CBS/Columbia Records.

The band recorded a string of hits in the 1960s and early 1970s, including "Kicks," "Hungry" and "Indian Reservation." Revere, the band's organist, had a hyperactive effervescent stage personality and came to be known as "the madman of rock 'n' roll."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/05/showbiz/paul-revere-obit/index.html

Paul is the keyboard player (original lead vocalist was Mark Lindsay).

[Berzerker]

Sid Caesar and Mickey Rooney

I was just watching a repeat of a Mad Mad Mad Mad World last night

[Uncle Sparky]

'Saturday Night Live' Actress Jan Hooks Dies at 57

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...y-night-739697

[SlowwHand]

Tommy Lewis. Former Alabama FB who came off the bench to tackle Rice's Dicky Maegle.

[Uncle Sparky]

Legendary fashion designer Oscar de la Renta has died at age 82.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/oscar-d...t-82-1.2806839

...De La Renta's gowns were worn by countless celebrities, royal family members around the world, politicians, and the wives of presidents and prime ministers. Included in that list were U.S. first ladies Jacqueline Onassis, Nancy Reagan, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Michelle Obama....

Time for an update.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Another hit for me- Gough Whitlam is sadly missed already.

Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam has died at the age of 98.

He was credited with transforming Australian society in the 1970s after 23 years of conservative government, introducing many far-reaching reforms.

But his government was plagued by resignations and the governor-general dismissed it after just three years.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott described Mr Whitlam as a "giant of his time" and said flags across Australia would fly at half-mast on Tuesday.

In a statement, Mr Whitlam's family said he was an "inspiration to us and our families and for millions of Australians".

Mr Whitlam's reforms included introducing free university education, abolishing the death penalty and allowing non-white immigrants into Australia.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-29694093

[ColdWizard]

That puts you back in the lead after I check my own list in order to confirm the end of my killing spree bid. Whereupon I discovered a difficult to find hit in Robert Demeger as apparently the stage is not well covered these days. For Mr. Demeger, I have used the DOB from IMDb as being the easiest source to find anything beyond the year.

Thus:

Rank	Player			Hits	Score
1	Bugs ****ing Bunny	6	1085
2	ColdWizard		5	1009
3	SlowwHand		5	868
4	Uncle Sparky		3	519
5	-Jrabbit		2	395
6	Robert Plomp		2	366
7	Ming			2	325
8	Perfection		1	213
9	Colon			1	189
10	Embalmer42		1	177
11	Hauldren Collider	1	171
12	Guynemer		1	162
13	EPW			1	158
14	Tuberski		1	158
15	Regexcellent		0	0
16	self biased		0	0

And:
Jan 7 - Run Run Shaw - -Jrabbit
Jan 11 - Ariel Sharon - Bugs ****ing Bunny
Jan 22 - Akkineni Nageswara Rao - ColdWizard
Jan 27 - Pete Seeger - -Jrabbit
Feb 10 - Shirley Temple - Embalmer42, SlowwHand
Feb 12 - Sid Caesar - Uncle Sparky, SlowwHand
Mar 14 - Tony Benn - Robert Plomp
Apr 6 - Mickey Rooney - Hauldren Collider, Ming, SlowwHand
Apr 17 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Bugs ****ing Bunny
May 2 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr. - Uncle Sparky
May 25 - General Wojciech Jaruzelski - Bugs ****ing Bunny, Robert Plomp
Jun 24 - Eli Wallach - Bugs ****ing Bunny, EPW, Guynemer, Ming, SlowwHand, Tuberski, Uncle Sparky
Jun 27 - Bobby Womack - Perfection
Jul 7 - Alfredo Di Stéfano - Colon
Jul 28 - Sally Farmiloe - ColdWizard
Aug 12 - Lauren Bacall - SlowwHand
Aug 24 - Richard Attenborough - Bugs ****ing Bunny, ColdWizard
Aug 28 - John Anthony Walker Jr - ColdWizard
Sep 14 - Robert Demeger - ColdWizard
Oct 21 - Gough Whitlam - Bugs ****ing Bunny

[-Jrabbit]

I nominate CW to run the Poly Dead Pool in 2015.

[regexcellent]

Me too.

[ColdWizard]

Yeah, this has been a bit of a practice run for the scoring. I expect I have rather more free time than reg and a heavy touch of perfectionism/obsession/compulsion that he doesn't seem to exhibit for such an important endeavor as the Dead Pool.

He did keep it alive when it might have otherwise died though.