# Celebrity Death Pool 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2016, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517 "2016-12-01T07:00:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 34
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/661 "2017-01-28T13:01:22Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > I’ll always remember her for her [greatest role](https://youtu.be/Bksvon-hSDM). A cinematic classic! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/662 "2017-01-28T16:24:28Z")
Isn’t that the movie that had a spider the size of a VW Beetle, mostly because the body was a covered over Bug?(No pun intended) ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/663 "2017-01-28T16:36:15Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Isn’t that the movie that had a spider the size of a VW Beetle, mostly because the body was a covered over Bug?(No pun intended) Yes. That’s the spider that ate Alan Hale. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/664 "2017-01-28T16:57:08Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > Yes. That’s the spider that ate Alan Hale. _ **Skipper!** _ ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/665 "2017-01-28T16:57:11Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > [John Hurt hurts no more.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=817571) I guess he’s Christopher Eccleston now. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/666 "2017-01-28T18:35:07Z")
I’m sure I had Hurt on my list before, then forgot and took his name off. Happens every time. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/667 "2017-01-28T20:55:58Z")
[Emmanuelle Riva, revered French actress who broke an Oscar age barrier, dies at 89](http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-emmanuelle-riva-snap-story.html). ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/668 "2017-01-28T22:27:49Z")
Hurt gave me 23 points. Since this is my first year playing he has given me my first points in the death pool game, ever. Which sucks. I really liked his work. Guess I’ll have to go rent \*The Elephant Man \*. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/669 "2017-01-28T23:33:08Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > Hurt gave me 23 points. Since this is my first year playing he has given me my first points in the death pool game, ever. Which sucks. I really liked his work. Guess I’ll have to go rent \*The Elephant Man \*. Or _I, Claudius_. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/670 "2017-01-29T00:09:51Z")
[Barbara Hale](http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/barbara-hale-dead-perry-mason-secretary-della-street-1201971817/) has died. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/671 "2017-01-29T00:32:05Z")
William Katt was her son? who knew? ---
**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:** [January 29, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/672 "2017-01-29T00:51:20Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > William Katt was her son? who knew? Believe it or not! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/673 "2017-01-29T01:24:40Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > Guess I’ll have to go rent \*The Elephant Man \*. He won’t get the money. Points is points. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/674 "2017-01-29T01:24:44Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > [Barbara Hale](http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/barbara-hale-dead-perry-mason-secretary-della-street-1201971817/) has died. Mentioned two or three times already, first time [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19956726&postcount=650) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/675 "2017-01-29T01:52:16Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Or _I, Claudius_. There were a lot of fine actors in I, Claudius. Patrick Stewart as Sejanus, Derek Jacobi as Claudius, Brian Blessed as Augustus, Sian Phillips as Livia, John Rhys-Davies as Macro. Oh heck I just need to watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/676 "2017-01-29T04:31:36Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > ☹ RIP, my fault, I was considering him for my list this year but did drop him… I kept him; I think. I don’t remember if I had him last year or not but he was the last on my main list this year. But I’ll take the points either way. January started slow but boy have the Grim Reaper turned it on for us for a while! ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/677 "2017-01-29T19:49:23Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Mentioned two or three times already, first time [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19956726&postcount=650) I caught that, erased it, and made a whole new post. For whatever reason, the new one never showed up. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/678 "2017-01-30T01:43:50Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > There were a lot of fine actors in I, Claudius. Patrick Stewart as Sejanus, Derek Jacobi as Claudius, Brian Blessed as Augustus, Sian Phillips as Livia, John Rhys-Davies as Macro. Oh heck I just need to watch it again. That was a great program **Baker**. There is a [35th Anniversary Edition](https://www.amazon.com/Claudius-35th-Anniversary-Sian-Phillips/dp/B006JY3OHW). It includes extras. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/679 "2017-01-30T10:55:54Z")
[Masaya Nakamura](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/517cba5f0e62444bbc4cd59253276522/japanese-arcade-pioneer-father-pac-man-has-died), the father of Pac Man has died at 91. ---
**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 30, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/680 "2017-01-30T14:28:37Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > [Masaya Nakamura](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/517cba5f0e62444bbc4cd59253276522/japanese-arcade-pioneer-father-pac-man-has-died), the father of Pac Man has died at 91. I trust this was played at the funeral: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU43yJJXTys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU43yJJXTys) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517.md?page=35)