# Celebrity Death Pool 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2013, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193 "2013-12-01T06:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 88
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1741 "2014-10-16T22:27:27Z")
The edit window was closed when I noticed the fact I left out his age. His recant dealt with not rremembering who did the typing, Ethel or his wife. ---
**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 16, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1742 "2014-10-16T22:30:03Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > 3 hours after **Rico** ’s post and still no reputable sources Wikipedia is not reputable? :eek: I did look and indeed Billy Vera posted on Facebook about the death. And they appeared to be friends. But I wouldn’t take that as gospel either. “RIP Tim Hauser and my deepest condolences to his loyal wife Barb. We lost him early this morning. Besides being the founder of the Manhattan Transfer, he was one of the best friends I ever had” “…and another thing, Timmy was indirectly responsible for my voiceover career. He asked me to sub for him on his KCRW radio show when he was on the road, which led to me having my own show. One day a call came into the station, asking whether I’d be interested in doing v/o. It saved my financial ass, and then some. This pic was to celebrate our both licking prostate cancer. — with Tim Hauser.” ---
**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 16, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1743 "2014-10-16T22:39:19Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > 3 hours after **Rico** ’s post and still no reputable sources [Kiwi Herald](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11342994&ref=rss)? (eight points) ---
**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 16, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1744 "2014-10-16T22:40:52Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > [Kiwi Herald](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11342994&ref=rss)? (eight points) Wrong guy. Looking for confirmation of Tim Hauser. But thanks for the accurate age. I could have swore what I was looking at before said 97. ---
**Author:** ![Quarter\_Lane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c68b51/32.png) [@Quarter\_Lane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quarter_Lane)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1745 "2014-10-16T23:10:44Z")
How strange. No confirmation on the official Manhattan Transfer website, no confirmation on Tim Houser’s Facebook page, and the most recent news article I could find on him was something posted from four hours ago announcing Houser and the rest of the group performing in an upcoming show. Plus, the Wikipedia page has be changed to take out the “death” date. Yet, no change or correction from Billy Vera’s Facebook page, and he seems like someone who would know the inside scoop. I’m beginning to lean toward it being a hoax. Meanwhile, pending official identification, it looks like [Misty Upham’s](http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/16/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/misty-upham-missing/index.html?hpt=hp_t2) body finally turned up. ---
**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 17, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1746 "2014-10-17T03:57:05Z")
> [@Quarter\_Lane](#): > > How strange. No confirmation on the official Manhattan Transfer website, no confirmation on Tim Houser’s Facebook page, and the most recent news article I could find on him was something posted from four hours ago announcing Houser and the rest of the group performing in an upcoming show. Plus, the Wikipedia page has be changed to take out the “death” date. Yet, no change or correction from Billy Vera’s Facebook page, and he seems like someone who would know the inside scoop. I’m beginning to lean toward it being a hoax. > > Meanwhile, pending official identification, it looks like [Misty Upham’s](http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/16/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/misty-upham-missing/index.html?hpt=hp_t2) body finally turned up. Now it’s confirmed. > **[Shore's Tim Hauser of Manhattan Transfer has died](https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/music/2014/10/16/shores-tim-hauser-of-manhattan-transfer-has-died/17386263/)** > > His Criterions were one of the early Asbury Park rock 'n' roll groups ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1747 "2014-10-17T22:07:50Z")
Plenty of people seem to be dying this year, just not the ones I want ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1748 "2014-10-18T03:15:54Z")
> [@computergeek](#): > > Plenty of people seem to be dying this year, just not the ones I want I feel your pain. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1749 "2014-10-20T02:22:11Z")
Former American Idol contestant Joanne Borgella dies at 68 points. > **[Former 'American Idol' Contestant Dies At 32](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joanne-borgella-american-idol-dead-dies_n_6009592?utm_hp_ref=tw)** > > Former 'American Idol' Contestant Dies At 32 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1750 "2014-10-20T21:45:54Z")
Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam has [died at 2 points.](http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/former-prime-minister-gough-whitlam-dead-at-98-20141021-1192t2.html) ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1751 "2014-10-20T22:19:35Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam has [died at 2 points.](http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/former-prime-minister-gough-whitlam-dead-at-98-20141021-1192t2.html) My first and second point for the year! Now we see my Aussie themed list start paying the big dividends, bwahahaha. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1752 "2014-10-20T23:13:25Z")
Two points each for BACI and Eliahna. The latter lost their virginity this year to Whitlam, and is catapulted into 80th place, the lowest score on the board so far, lol. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1753 "2014-10-20T23:16:00Z")
> [@](#): > > American Idol finalist Michael Johns has passed away at age 35 > [@](#): > > Former American Idol contestant Joanne Borgella dies at 68 points. Anyone considering a American Idol theme in 2015? * * * If no one had Joanne Borgella, we are clearly not taking this game seriously enough. She announced her cancer last year. C’mon People, this was 68 points of low hanging fruit. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1754 "2014-10-21T01:31:37Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > If no one had Joanne Borgella, we are clearly not taking this game seriously enough. She announced her cancer last year. > > C’mon People, this was 68 points of low hanging fruit. Nope – 68 points, gone to waste. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1755 "2014-10-21T01:58:51Z")
Singer John Holt (Paragons =- “Tide is High”) has died > **[Reggae Legend John Holt Dead at 69](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/reggae-legend-john-holt-dead-at-69-228997/)** > > Blondie famously covered the singer’s “The Tide Is High,” but the Jamaican icon also leaves behind more than 40 albums of reggae, rocksteady and ska Brian ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1756 "2014-10-21T02:31:51Z")
Per CNN [http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/20/living/oscar-de-la-renta-death/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/20/living/oscar-de-la-renta-death/index.html), fashion designer Oscar De La Renta has died at 82 ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1757 "2014-10-21T02:51:04Z")
What do the 1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis, George Clooney’s wife’s wedding dress and Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock have in common? All are linked to deaths that have occurred in the last 24 hours. [RIP Gerard Parkes](http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/entry/view/id/777926), aka Doc from Fraggle Rock. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1758 "2014-10-21T02:51:30Z")
> [@computergeek](#): > > Per CNN [http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/20/living/oscar-de-la-renta-death/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/20/living/oscar-de-la-renta-death/index.html), fashion designer Oscar De La Renta has died at 82 He’s now fashionably late. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1759 "2014-10-22T00:02:53Z")
MSNBC is reporting that Ben Bradley has died. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193/1760 "2014-10-22T01:46:55Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > MSNBC is reporting that Ben Bradley has died. [Confirmed](http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ben-bradlee-legendary-washington-post-editor-dies-at-93/2014/10/21/3e4cc1fc-c59c-11df-8dce-7a7dc354d1b1_story.html?hpid=z1). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=87) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2014/675193.md?page=89)