2014 Off Topic Celebrity Dead Pool - Now under New Management

[SlowwHand]

Maybe something like "Life" was calling.

[Robert]

Maybe I'm using reverse psychology on him - I mean, reg would hate to prove me right, I'm sure...

You're crushing our "we show much sympathy and understanding to keep him encouraged" strategy.
The reverse psychology one would follow after that, you're just way too soon.

(nobody knows that the real hidden strategy is the good cop / bad cop approach we're executing together) (ssssst)

[Uncle Sparky]

I blame Ben for the rex not having updated yet. I'm sure we can agree on that.

[regexcellent]

He folks...sorry it's still not up yet...I feel like George R. R. Martin minus the writing talent right now, it's not a good feeling. It turns out I couldn't realistically work on the dead pool while in Charlottesville sleeping on a friend's floor...but I'm home now (though thoroughly exhausted) and I have a week and a half now before classes start up which is plenty of time.

I hate to keep you folks waiting and I'll be damned if MOBIUS is proved right

[Colonâ„¢]

We should have gone for the other twin!

[Robert]

He folks...sorry it's still not up yet...I feel like George R. R. Martin minus the writing talent right now, it's not a good feeling. It turns out I couldn't realistically work on the dead pool while in Charlottesville sleeping on a friend's floor...but I'm home now (though thoroughly exhausted) and I have a week and a half now before classes start up which is plenty of time.

I hate to keep you folks waiting and I'll be damned if MOBIUS is proved right

I wish that George R.R. Martin would give us as much updates as you do!
Hope keeps us alive!

[SlowwHand]

The Professor.

Russell Johnson, the actor who played the beloved Professor on Gilligan's Island, has died at his home at age 89.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I feel like George R. R. Martin minus the writing talent right now

Exactly like George R. R. Martin then.

*runs from braying geek lynch-mob*

[Hauldren Collider]

Exactly like George R. R. Martin then.

*runs from braying geek lynch-mob*

I agree

*joins bugs in fleeing*

[-Jrabbit]

Also dying today: actor Dave Madden, 82, best known for playing band manager Reuben Kincaid on The Partridge Family TV show.

http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/dave-madden-dead-partridge-family-reuben-kincaid/

[Dinner]

This technically covers the last 3 months of 2013 and so doesn't belong in this thread but I think I will put it here anyway. It is a list of celebs who died in the last three months of 2013.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/16/russell-johnson-dead-dies_n_4612127.html

[molly bloom]

In brief- Alexandra Bastedo, fuel of many an adolescent male fantasy in the '60s and '70s has popped 'er clogs.

Alexandra Bastedo, who has died of cancer aged 67, found fame and sex-symbol status playing the secret agent and scientist Sharron Macready in the 1960s television fantasy series The Champions. She appeared with William Gaunt as Richard Barrett and Stuart Damon as Craig Stirling in the show about three agents working for the Geneva-based law-enforcement organisation Nemesis who gain superhuman powers after being rescued from a plane crash in Tibet by a mysterious lost tribe. With computer-like intelligence and Olympian levels of strength and endurance, they can communicate by telepathy and are assigned to cases where world stability is under threat.

It was one of the globally successful series made by the television mogul Lew Grade's international production and distribution company ITC. Bastedo described her butt-kicking character as a "gutsy girl before her time".

She was born in Hove, East Sussex, to a half Italian, half Swiss mother, Riana (a descendant of Richard Wagner) and a Canadian father, Gilbert, a business executive who had been posted to Brighton during his second world war service with the Canadian army. Bastedo attended Brighton and Hove high school and Worthing School of Drama, although her childhood ambition was to become a vet.

At the age of 16, she beat 4,000 girls to win a newspaper beauty competition titled Miss Teenage Diplomat. As a result, Columbia Pictures whisked her off to Hollywood to play Alex, an English teenager, in the film 13 Frightened Girls! (1963, also called The Candy Web), set in a Swiss boarding school for diplomats' daughters and made by the horror director William Castle. "There were a lot of people hanging from meat hooks and I did a lot of screaming," recalled Bastedo, who was paid £700 for four weeks' work.

She was offered a seven-year film contract, including an Alfred Hitchcock picture, but her parents insisted she should continue her education. While studying for her A-levels, Bastedo undertook modelling assignments. On leaving school, she appeared in episodes of the television series The Flying Swan and R3 (both 1965) before setting foot on a film set again. She had small roles in The Liquidator (1965), Doctor in Clover (1966, as a nurse) and the Morecambe and Wise comedy That Riviera Touch (1966).

Before landing her starring role in The Champions, Bastedo appeared alongside Peter Sellers and David Niven in Casino Royale, the 1967 James Bond spoof (and spurned the advances of Warren Beatty, who was visiting the set). She then made small-screen guest appearances in Department S, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (both 1969) and Jason King (1971), and starred as Diana Dalzell, one of the spies in a government department using a university as their cover, in the thriller series Codename (1970).

Bastedo's film career did not take her to Hollywood, but mainly to Spain, where she made a string of films – including The Blood Splattered Bride (1972) – during the 1970s and became known as "La Bastedo". She was also in the British horror film The Ghoul (1975, alongside Peter Cushing). Having become fluent in Italian, French and Spanish, she co-hosted the Miss World beauty pageant from 1987 until 1989.

Settling back in Britain for good, Bastedo continued to appear on television, with guest roles in series such as Boon (1988) and Absolutely Fabulous (1992, as a model friend of Patsy). More recently, she played Cynthia Marshall in EastEnders (2008) and a Gotham society dame in the film Batman Begins (2005).

In 1980, Bastedo married Patrick Garland, artistic director of the Chichester Festival theatre. An animal rights supporter, she set up the Alexandra Bastedo Champions (ABC) animal sanctuary at their home near Chichester, West Sussex, later moving to West Chiltington, near Arundel. Her autobiography, Beware Dobermanns, Donkeys and Ducks, was published in 1993; and she also wrote several animal welfare books.

Her husband died in 2013.

• Alexandra Lendon Bastedo, actor, born 9 March 1946; died 12 January 2014

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jan/13/alexandra-bastedo

[regexcellent]

Four days of 'plenty of time' later. People are dying, reg...

Hahaha

It's done but the computer I did it on had its power supply blow up yesterday so now I'm waiting for a new one to arrive so I can yank it off and post it.

[Tuberski]

I think you've been "yanking it off" WAY too much recently...

ACK!

[-Jrabbit]

Three weeks. Awesome. Very impressive.

Now I don't feel so bad about the year I ran it.