The Celebrity Death Pool 2005

The Game Room
81
  1. Karol Józef Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II)
  2. William Rehnquist (Chief Justice of the United States)
  3. James Watson (scientist)
  4. Gerald Ford (presidential klutz)
  5. Rosa Parks (protestor)
  6. Kim Jong-Il (dictator)
  7. Hugh Hefner (playboy)
  8. Rupert Murdoch (muckracker)
  9. Richard Branson (entrepreneur)
  10. Roger Ebert (film critic)
  11. Paris Hilton (Stupid Spoiled Whore)
  12. Andre Young aka Dr Dre (obligatory hip-hop artist)
  13. Charles Manson (psycho)
82
  1. Pope John Paul II
  2. Albert Finney
  3. George W. Bush
  4. Jean Chretien
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. Jose Canseco
  7. John Madden
  8. Michael Jackson
  9. Prince Harry Windsor
  10. Ozzy Osbourne
  11. Jerry Lewis
  12. Carl Reiner
  13. Jerry Van Dyke
83
  1. Doris Day
  2. Jane Wyman
  3. Walter Cronkite
  4. Britney Spears
  5. Courtney Love
  6. Leonard Nimoy
  7. Elton John (Reginald Dwight)
  8. B.B. King
  9. Bill Cosby
  10. Peter O’Toole
  11. Patty Duke
  12. Karl Malden
  13. Faye Wray
84

Faye Wray has already died in 2004. Reanimation to get points is unethical.

85

My revised list. Disregard previous

  1. Axl Rose
  2. Whitney Houston
  3. Steve Jobs
  4. Elizabeth Taylor
  5. Scott Hamilton
  6. James Earl Jones
  7. Paul Prudhomme
  8. Henry Kissinger
  9. Colin Farrell
  10. Peter O’Toole
  11. Ed Koch
  12. Jerry Orbach
  13. James Brown

No Popes or Gerald Fords for me, I’m going for the win not a tie.

86

Not to mention that you’d have to kill the zombie yourself, violating the “don’t murder the people on your list” rule.

87

Oh if Faye Wray’s zombie was shuffling down Hollywood Blvd, I’m sure someone besides Ilsa would kill it.

88

Would anyone notice?

89

Okay, here are mine:

  1. Pope John Paul II (come on already … )

  2. Gerald R. Ford

  3. Elizabeth Taylor

  4. Prince Phillip (Queen Elizabeth’s husband)
    5 Prince Harry (Aw, I should be shot, but hey, he’s a real long shot! And, in my defense, the prince has been partying heartily of late …)

  5. Osama Bin Laden

  6. Tony Blair (assassination)

  7. Koffi Annan (I know I horribly mis-spelled that!); of the UN (assassination)

  8. Kurt Russell (heh - in response to my selection of Goldie Hawn in 2004 …)

  9. Sidney Sheldon (unless he already is …!)

  10. Courtney Love (keeping the faith alive …)

  11. Mick Jagger - there’s only so much that drugs and booze can preserve!
    and last but certainly not least:

  12. Placido Domingo

If any of them should happen to gasp kick the bucket -before- 12/31/04, I’;ll make changes to the list (or replace if Sheldon is already gone; I forgot to check on that).

My track record for 2004, though, is (so far …) ZERO points. :stuck_out_tongue:

90

Nooo!

Though I picked Pavarotti. Now if someone just picks Jose, we can have a Three Tenors trifecta. :smiley:

91

tarragon’s a virgin…tarragons a vir-gin!
[points and laughs]

This guarantees me no Dead People in 2005. Where I break my streak of 8 or 9 years of pointage and become a virgin again.

92

In no particular order:

  1. Pope John Paul II
  2. William Rehnquist
  3. George W. Bush
  4. Kevin James (actor from “King of Queens”)
  5. Lady Bird Johnson
  6. Jerry Falwell
  7. Al Roker
  8. Nelly (the rap star guy)
  9. Johnny Oates
  10. Elizabeth Taylor
  11. Stephen Hawking
  12. Bill Cosby
  13. Frank Kameny (DC-based gay activist–if he’s not famous enough, substitute Dick Cheney)
93

My picks for 2005:

  1. Scott Weiland
  2. Charleton Heston
  3. Shane McGowan
  4. Gerald Ford
  5. Shirley Temple Black
  6. Ringo Starr
  7. Ernest Borgnine
  8. Richard Pryor
  9. Elizabeth Taylor
  10. Franco Zeffirelli
  11. Joel Grey
  12. Mickey Rooney
  13. Courtney Love
94

Okay, here goes:

  1. Pope John Paul II
  2. Hamid Karzai
  3. William Rehnquist
  4. Ladybird Johnson
  5. Joe Gibbs
  6. Willie Mays
  7. Bobby Hull
  8. Pele
  9. Loretta Lynn
  10. Eric Burdon
  11. Diana Ross
  12. Grace Slick
  13. Bob Denver
95
  1. Larry Hagman
96

I was going to suggest you check the Dead People Server, but ol’ Sid doesn’t appear on the linked list of celebrities whose surnames begin with S. However, his official site indicates he’s still very much alive, as does the Internet Movie Database.

As long as I’m posting, I might as well submit my list (with the understanding I’ll change it if any of my holdovers or newcomers shuffle off this mortal coil in the next four weeks):

KEEPING

  1. Joey Bishop – Rat Packer and comedian born in 1918

  2. Olivia De Havilland – Actress born in 1916

  3. Art Donovan – Pro Football Hall of Famer born in 1925

  4. Frank Drake – Scientist born in 1930, his Drake Equation is used to calculate the likelihood of extraterrestrial life.

  5. Bob Feller – Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher born in 1918

  6. Joan Fontaine – Actress born in 1917, sister of Olivia De Havilland

  7. Willie Nelson – Self-styled outlaw singer and guitarist born in 1933

  8. Oral Roberts – Evangelist and university founder born in 1918

  9. Chuck Yeager – Born in 1923, first pilot to break the sound barrier when he flew the X-1

DROPPING

Betty Hill, Uta Hagen, and Alan King – all died this year
Stanley Kunitz – poet born in 1905 who won’t be worth any points even if he finally does kick the bucket

ADDING

  1. Arthur Miller – Playwright (Death of a Salesman) born in 1915

  2. Norodom Sihanouk – Born in 1922, recently abdicated after reigning as King of Cambodia and serving in numerous other political positions

  3. Gerald Ford – Former President of the United States born in 1913

  4. Claudia Alta Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson – Former First Lady of the United States born in 1912

97

First time I’ve been able to paticipate in this!

  1. Scott Weiland
  2. James Doohan
  3. Jerry Lewis
  4. Nancy Reagan
  5. Gerald Ford
  6. The Pope
  7. Courtney Love
  8. Viktor Yushchenko
  9. Stephen Hawking
  10. Ted Kennedy
  11. Scott Peterson

Alternates, in order:

  1. Michael Jackson
  2. Osama bin Laden
  3. Elizabeth Taylor
98
  1. Osama Bin Laden
  2. Lindsay Lohan
  3. Muhammed Ali
  4. Joe Paterno
  5. BB King
  6. William F. Buckley
  7. Nancy Reagan
  8. Gary Coleman
  9. Michael Jackson
  10. Byron Nelson (golfer)
  11. William Rhenquist
  12. Janet Reno
  13. Oprah Winfrey
99
  1. Kirk Douglas, actor
  2. Jimmy Carter, former president
  3. Dick Cheney, V.Pres.
  4. Pope John Paul II
  5. Reverend Billy Graham
  6. Sumner Redstone, chairman of Viacom
  7. Peter Boyle, actor
  8. Elizabeth Taylor, actress
  9. Lauren Bacall, actress
  10. Peter Falk, actor
  11. Andy Rooney, commentator
  12. Mickey Rooney, actor
  13. Frances Sternhagen, actress
100

OK, here is my submission for the Death Pool 2005:

  1. Fidel Castro, dictator
  2. Jimmy Carter, ex-president
  3. Gerald Ford, ex- president
  4. Pope John Paul II
  5. Dan Rather, newscaster
  6. William Rehnquist, SCOTUS
  7. Keith Richards, Roling Stones
  8. Kirk Douglas, actor
  9. Wilford Brimley, actor
  10. Jerry Stiller, comedian
  11. Jerry Lewis, comedian
  12. Kris Kristofferson, country singer
  13. Marlon Brando, actor

Alternates: (to be used in this order)

  1. Abe Vigoda, actor
  2. Courtney Love, musician
  3. Paris HIlton, spoiled brat/heiress