# 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:** 56
**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:** [October 5, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1103 "2022-10-05T21:13:41Z")
> **[Former WNBA 1st-round pick Tiffany Jackson dies at 37 after battle with...](https://sports.yahoo.com/former-wnba-1st-round-pick-tiffany-jackson-dies-at-37-after-battle-with-breast-cancer-135837048.html)** > > Jackson played eight years in the WNBA. ---
**Author:** ![zadscmc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a183cd/32.png) [@zadscmc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zadscmc)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1104 "2022-10-06T23:21:22Z")
Radio personality Bernard McGuirk has died at 64 > **[WABC talk radio host Bernard McGuirk, former producer of ‘Imus in the...](https://www.nj.com/news/2022/10/wabc-talk-radio-host-bernard-mcguirk-former-producer-of-imus-in-the-morning-dead-at-64.html)** > > McGuirk co-hosted 'Bernie & Sid in the Morning.' ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1105 "2022-10-06T23:30:48Z")
Lenny Lipton, poet has died at 82. He is most famous for Puff, the Magic Dragon. > **[Lenny Lipton](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Lipton)** > > Leonard Lipton (May 18, 1940 – October 5, 2022) was an American author, filmmaker, lyricist and inventor. At age 19, Lipton wrote the poem that became the basis for the lyrics to the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon". He went on to write books on independent filmmaking and become a pioneer in the field of projected three-dimensional imagery. His technology is used to show 3D films on more than 30,000 theater screens worldwide. In 2021, he published The Cinema in Flux, an 800-page illustrated book o... ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1106 "2022-10-06T23:52:35Z")
> **[Judy Tenuta, Popular Stand-Up Comic Known as ‘Love Goddess,’ Dies at 72](https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/judy-tenuta-dead-comic-love-goddess-1235395737/)** > > Popular stand-up comic Judy Tenuta, known to her fans as “The Love Goddess” and “Aphrodite of the Accordion,” died of ovarian cancer on Thursday afternoon in Los Angele… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1107 "2022-10-07T01:09:39Z")
72? Another article said she was 65. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1108 "2022-10-07T01:12:18Z")
> **[Kitten Natividad, ‘Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens’ Star and Burlesque...](https://variety.com/2022/film/news/kitten-natividad-dead-beneath-the-valley-of-the-ultra-vixens-1235383441/)** > > Francesca “Kitten” Natividad, the go-go dancer who became a cult pop culture figure when she was cast by sexploitation film director Russ Meyer in “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra… ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1109 "2022-10-07T05:17:55Z")
Was doing a wellness check on my list tonight, and discovered I earned some points: [Lars Vogt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Vogt), died Sept 5, age 51 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1110 "2022-10-07T11:46:46Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 72? Another article said she was 65. She very actively tried to conceal her age. 72 appears to be correct. In the article from NBC there is a quote from her publicist. “Tenuta had claimed her birthdate as Nov. 7, 1965, but she was born in 1949, Neal said. “She was old school so she would never tell her real age, but now that she’s gone we can tell her real age,” he added.” ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1111 "2022-10-07T12:59:41Z")
Damn. I knew him professionally, met him on several occasions, and provided comments and corrections for one chapter of the massive book on cinema he published last year. He was an amazing guy who had three major accomplishments in his life, each of which was very successful and financially rewarding: - 1963: he wrote the poem that became _Puff the Magic Dragon._ - 1972: he wrote _Independent Film Making,_ a book that became a standard text for many college courses. He followed it with two other books on filmmaking. (He autographed a first edition of one of them for me.) - 1989: after decades of research into stereography, he patented the Z-screen technology that became the basis for RealD, the first commercially successful 3D system for digital cinema. Last year he published _The Cinema in Flux: The Evolution of Motion Picture Technology from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Era_, an 800-page book examining virtually every aspect of moving images. As I said, an amazing guy. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1112 "2022-10-07T14:10:54Z")
A good reminder for everyone to check their lists: 49 Points, a Unique Pick, and a jump up to 2nd place: | Rank | Player | Score | Picks(Unique) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Registered\_at\_Last | 224 | 5(1) | | 2 | Happy\_Lendervedder | 218 | 4(1) | | 3 | phungi | 211 | 4(1) | | 4 | RobotDevilDog | 164 | 4 | | 5 | RTFirefly | 161 | 4 | | 6 | Loach | 156 | 3(1) | | 7 | Little\_Nemo | 152 | 4 | | 8 | jeezums | 148 | 3 | | 9 | Mahaloth | 134 | 4 | | 10 | Reindeer\_Flotilla | 131 | 3 | | 11 | candide | 127 | 3 | | 11 | It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery | 127 | 3 | | 13 | WolfpackJeep | 109 | 4(1) | | 14 | imthjckaz | 108 | 3(1) | | 15 | Captain\_Klutz | 104 | 2 | | 16 | Maus\_Magill | 100 | 2 | | 17 | Bayaker | 94 | 2 | | 17 | Hoopy\_Frood | 94 | 2 | | 17 | Kitten\_Mitten | 94 | 2 | | 17 | Queen\_Anne\_s\_Lace | 94 | 2 | | 21 | GIGObuster | 92 | 3 | | 22 | Mean\_MrMustard | 86 | 3 | | 23 | Catamount | 77 | 3 | | 24 | ataraxy22 | 76 | 2 | | 25 | Superdude | 67 | 1 | | 26 | DrGirlfriend | 42 | 3 | | 26 | gkster | 42 | 3 | | 28 | J-P\_L | 41 | 3 | | 29 | Allecher | 38 | 2 | | 30 | Dung\_Beetle | 33 | 2(1) | | 30 | irritant | 33 | 1 | | 32 | critter42 | 31 | 2 | | 32 | kingEabe | 31 | 2 | | 34 | Borborygmi | 29 | 1(1) | | 35 | amarinth | 27 | 1 | | 35 | Cazzle | 27 | 1 | | 35 | NurseCarmen | 27 | 1 | | 35 | Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle | 27 | 1 | | 39 | eschereal | 21 | 1(1) | | 40 | vivalostwages | 18 | 1(1) | | 40 | xizor | 18 | 1(1) | | 42 | gwendee | 16 | 2 | | 43 | Gyrate | 15 | 2 | | 43 | kitap | 15 | 2 | | 43 | ProfPepperwinkle | 15 | 2 | | 46 | Lsura | 14 | 2 | | 47 | Biotop | 13 | 1(1) | | 47 | commasense | 13 | 2(1) | | 47 | Hatchie | 13 | 1(1) | | 50 | GuanoLad | 12 | 1(1) | | 50 | Hschardi | 12 | 1 | | 50 | JohnT | 12 | 1 | | 53 | truthseeker3 | 11 | 1 | | 54 | Mona\_Lott | 10 | 1 | | 54 | Railer13 | 10 | 1 | | 54 | Snowboarder\_Bo | 10 | 1 | | 54 | tuesdayweld | 10 | 1 | | 58 | D\_Anconia | 9 | 1 | | 58 | SpoilerVirgin | 9 | 1 | | 58 | Tristan | 9 | 1 | | 61 | teelabrown | 6 | 1 | | 61 | zadscmc | 6 | 2(1) | | 63 | Gatopescado | 4 | 1 | | 63 | Precambrianmollusc | 4 | 1 | | 63 | rhl | 4 | 1 | | 63 | Shoeless | 4 | 1 | | 63 | Stephe96 | 4 | 1 | | 68 | Baker | 1 | 3(2) | ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1113 "2022-10-07T16:48:18Z")
Well, I don’t care how old she was, she was a funny lady and I am sorry she is gone. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1114 "2022-10-07T23:44:33Z")
All my picks are stubbornly clinging to life, the inconsiderate bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1115 "2022-10-08T17:03:59Z")
Don’t give up hope. I once won the Final Hours Award when one of my picks was assasinated on Dec. 27th. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1116 "2022-10-08T19:00:24Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Well, I don’t care how old she was, she was a funny lady and I am sorry she is gone. If you don’t care about the age of people when they die I have some bad news for you about this thread… ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1117 "2022-10-08T20:39:32Z")
Well, since I haven’t had any of my picks die for over a year I guess there is no point in caring about age. I think I will start charging people to be put on my list so they can live forever. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1118 "2022-10-09T16:29:23Z")
> **[Nikki Finke, Deadline Founder and Iconoclastic Journalist, Dies at 68](https://variety.com/2022/biz/obituaries-people-news/nikki-finke-dead-deadline-hollywood-daily-1235397264/)** > > Nikki Finke, a tenacious journalist who revolutionized entertainment reporting with what became the Hollywood trade website Deadline, died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, Fla. after a prolonged illne… ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1119 "2022-10-10T14:23:21Z")
WWE wrestler Sara Lee has [died](https://www.wwe.com/article/sara-lee-passes-away) at the age of 30. No cause of death has been reported. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1120 "2022-10-10T20:34:33Z")
Only 30? I’m sure I remember seeing her line of pastries in the supermarket longer ago than that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1121 "2022-10-10T20:57:45Z")
Nobody didn’t like Sara Lee. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443/1122 "2022-10-10T21:46:26Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > WWE wrestler Sara Lee has [died](https://www.wwe.com/article/sara-lee-passes-away) at the age of 30. No cause of death has been reported. She dies at 30 and I had Paul Wight on the list for years. Big man, could not be healthy for his heart. Still alive at 50. I quit putting him on the list. He is apparently known as “Big Show” if you are curious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443.md?page=55) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/955443.md?page=57)