The Celebrity Death Pool 2006

Actress Adrienne Shelly found dead. She was 40.

Saddam to swing, but I won’t score off him unless someone whacks the old bastard on the way to the gallows… :frowning:

Saddam sentanced to death.
Huh.

Didn’t see that one coming.

Doesn’t count. The rules say that a person who is sentenced to death does not count unless he dies by non-official means.

Jo Jo Laine. Damn. I had her at the top of the list for next year. :mad:

Former Turkish Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit is dead at 81, after spending months in a coma

Ed Bradley, of CBS’ 60 Minutes

I took some time today to set up my 2007 list. When will the new thread be started?

December 1st.

Boston Braves All-Star pitcher Johnny Sain, 89.

If I can use the search tool right, looks like I’ve got myself a unique one for 11 points.

Film composer Basil Poledouris has died.

Markus Wolf, who headed the foreign intelligence division of the Stasi (East Germany’s secret police) and helped bring about the fall of West German chancellor Willy Brandt in 1974, has died at the age of 83.

Damn, I loved his soundtracks for movies!!!

And in other news:

I remain a death pool virgin. Hell will freeze. Pigs will fly. The Dems will win control of Congress (oh wait! that happened!). All this will come about before somebody I pick dies.

Jack Palance has died.

Sadly, Australian actress Belinda Emmett has lost her battle with cancer, aged 32.

Heh, I know what you mean.

I’m a death pool virgin too…two years straight. Gah! :smiley:

I’ve got the main theme from The Hunt For Red October on my mp3 player. It’s awesome!

Basil Poledouris, Jack Palance ( one of my favorite actors! :frowning: ), and Ed Bradley just formed a perfect celebrity death threesome.

He’s doing one armed push ups of the daisies.