# 2022 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 3, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443 "2021-12-03T13:46:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/243 "2022-01-06T18:19:00Z")
Six days in and no one’s scored yet? Looks like we’ve got a defensive battle on our hands here people. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/244 "2022-01-06T18:45:09Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Six days in and no one’s scored yet? Looks like we’ve got a defensive battle on our hands here people Please don’t go on the offense and start taking things into your own hand. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/245 "2022-01-06T23:49:43Z")
Just in case nobody’s done this already, here are links to all the previous Death Pool threads: [2021](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881) by **Baker/phungi** [2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229) by **Baker** [2019](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2019/825390) by **Baker** [2018](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2018/803331) by **phungi** [2017](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517) by **Idle Thoughts/phungi** [2016](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2016/739098) by **Baker** [2015](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993) by **Baker** [2014](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193) by **Baker** [2013](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2013/642655) by **Baker** [2012](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2012/604679) by **Baker** [2011](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523) by **amarone** [2010](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574) by **amarone** [2009](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2009/475262) by **amarone** [2008](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2008/428439) by **amarone** [2007](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620) by **a35362** [2006](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2006/333632) by **a35362** [2005](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2005/277574) by **a35362** [2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2004/216359) by **a35362** [2003](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2003/139798) by **a35362** [2002](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2002-in-3d/96279) by **Little Nemo** [2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2001/43715) by **Little Nemo** [2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deathpool-2000/15704) by **Little Nemo** ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/246 "2022-01-06T23:59:56Z")
Excellent work, and thoughtful as well! Nice job! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/247 "2022-01-07T00:14:28Z")
Just five years ago, in 2017, the Opening Kickoff wasn’t until January 15th. In 2010, it wasn’t until the 21st. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/248 "2022-01-07T00:16:14Z")
Luckily for me, I did all this work last year, so all I had to do just now was C&P! I didn’t even have to deal with the format change this time, since we were already in Discourse a year ago. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/249 "2022-01-07T01:10:31Z")
The AP has some excellent tributes/eulogies for MR. Bogdanovich: > **[Hollywood reacts to the death of Peter Bogdanovich](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-peter-bogdanovich-francis-ford-coppola-0377d1a4938baf718fda75ee1ba9ce58)** > > Tributes to Peter Bogdanovich poured in following the death of the filmmaker, writer, critic and film historian. Bogdanovich, whose films included “The Last Picture Show” and “Paper Moon,” died Thursday at the age of 82. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/250 "2022-01-07T02:11:08Z")
Two years before that, I remember it well, a bunch of people celebrated an 18 point NYD. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/251 "2022-01-07T14:14:55Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Peter Bogdanovich has directed his last picture show. Age 82. > > [Peter Bogdanovich Dead: Last Picture Show, Paper Moon Director Dies – The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/peter-bogdanovich-dead-last-picture-show-1235070769/) 18 Points, Opening Kick-Off, and current SDMB-CDP Leader: **vivalostwages** : | Rank | Player | Score | Picks(Unique) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | vivalostwages | 18 | 1(1) | ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/252 "2022-01-07T14:56:35Z")
[Sidney Poitier, dead at 94](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-sir-sidney-poitier-dead-25884507), putting **Catamount, commasense, gkster, gwendee, teelabrown** on the board: | Rank | Player | Score | Picks(Unique) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | vivalostwages | 18 | 1(1) | | 2 | Catamount | 6 | 1 | | 2 | commasense | 6 | 1 | | 2 | gkster | 6 | 1 | | 2 | gwendee | 6 | 1 | | 2 | teelabrown | 6 | 1 | ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/253 "2022-01-07T15:28:51Z")
> **[Sir Sidney Poitier dead at 94](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10379329/Sir-Sidney-Poitier-dead-94.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline)** > > Poitier's trailblazing acting career saw win an Oscar in 1964 for Lilies of the Field. His cause of death is not yet known. Twice-married, he had four daughters with his first wife and two with his second wife. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/254 "2022-01-07T15:54:03Z")
Guess there will only be the three of us at dinner, then. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/255 "2022-01-07T16:11:00Z")
I can guess who’s _not_ coming to dinner. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/256 "2022-01-07T18:45:34Z")
Bah, not points that I’m happy to earn. I loved Sidney Poitier. But he was no spring chicken. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/257 "2022-01-08T01:28:35Z")
Ditto! It was strange to hear of Poitier’s death and think “oh no poor guy! / I’m scoring points…” I’ve lurked on the past 2 years’ threads but never played until this year. It doesn’t feel great to have the beginner’s luck of getting points in the first week with Poitier, but there probably aren’t many players who pick only celebrities they don’t like? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/258 "2022-01-08T01:49:32Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > but there probably aren’t many players who pick only celebrities they don’t like? Did you call? What do you want? My choices could easily be called a Wish List! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/259 "2022-01-08T04:14:22Z")
[Lani Guinier](https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/07/politics/lani-guinier-dies/index.html), Harvard Law professor, civil rights advocate, and lightning rod for the Clinton administration, pleads her last case at age 71. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/260 "2022-01-08T05:44:02Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > but there probably aren’t many players who pick only celebrities they don’t like? Not [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/153), but in the Themed CDP, [you bet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-themed-celebrity-death-pool/955444/27)! ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/261 "2022-01-08T17:15:58Z")
> **[Marilyn Bergman, Oscar-Winning Lyricist of ‘The Way We Were,’ Dies at 93](https://variety.com/2022/music/news/marilyn-bergman-dead-dies-lyricist-1235149611/)** > > Marilyn Bergman, the Oscar-, Emmy- and Grammy-winning songwriter whose lyrics written with her husband, Alan Bergman, graced such hits as “The Way We Were,” “The Windmills of Your… ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/262 "2022-01-08T21:31:04Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Did you call? What do you want? > > My choices could easily be called a Wish List! LOL I’ll have to think of a Wish list for next year’s game [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443.md?page=14)